Opinion
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Apple’s shiny new iPhone X is being delivered to early adopters this week. East Coast enthusiasts set their alarms to 3 a.m. local time on Oct. 27
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It has been 100 years since the Balfour Declaration – issued by the British government on Nov. 2, 1917 – offered the first international...
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Walking through the densely wooded fields and forests near Rava-Ruska, Ukraine, where wildflowers and green shoots of grass spring up, one could be...
I thought I understood the power of prayer, until I went to Uman. Long before I reconnected with Judaism, I felt connected to God.
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Israel is tritely known as the start up nation, the incubator for ideas and products that change our lives – usually for the better –
Weinstein-Jewish Connection One of the few positive things to come out of the discovery of Harvey Weinstein’s serial predatory side is that all of the...
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The nightmare: You are a male undergraduate. A female friend accuses you of violently raping her on a bed in your living room.
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I’m worried about our right to religious liberty; about it being used as an excuse for discrimination; about conservative,
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Two days after the Jan. 22, 1973, Roe v. Wade decision was handed down by the Supreme Court, the editorial page of The New York Times — pro-abortion then,
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As Tolstoy might have observed, every secular Jewish family is secular in its own way. When I was a baby, my parents chose to settle far from the...
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Since news broke in October of Harvey Weinstein’s decades of alleged rampant sexual violence and assault, women have come out in force to tell their stories
There is great excitement among feminists in America that our culture finally is heeding the voices of women. Over the last several weeks,
It’s hard to describe the pull of nostalgia. I left Casablanca, Morocco, when I was 8, and grew up in Canada and the United States.
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“Are you waiting for Shmuel?” “I’ve been waiting all my life for Shmuel,” I said. He laughed. “You’re funny.” We’re at the fax machine; it was my...
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The recent German national elections that saw the nationalistic AfD (Alternative for Germany) Party gain nearly 13 percent of the vote — placing...
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Presidents Calvin Coolidge, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and George Bush (43) all organized major tax cuts that generated significant economic growth.
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The Republican tax-reform plan is marginally less generous to the wealthy than many conservatives would like. As the GOP struggles to cobble together...
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For a crime as pervasive as sexual assault, the general response to Harvey Weinstein’s alleged misdeeds was appropriately uniform: Nobody was surprised.
My mother’s childhood friend — pale skin and green eyes and the kind of tameness deemed desirable in a wife — would stand before the mirror...
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I’ve never been much for crowds. I remember once at a music festival pushing through a mass of people waiting to see Thom Yorke.
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When I lived in Washington, D.C., in my 20s, I often wore miniskirts. The prim and proper ladies there used to stare at me.
The past month has seen the near implosion of Hollywood. That’s because of the revelations about mega-powerhouse Harvey Weinstein’s regular habit of...
The conventional wisdom in journalism is that if you don’t have angry readers, you’re doing something wrong. I can’t tell you how often I’ve heard this...
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Bad people can make and love good art. Can good people love bad people’s art? udgy words, I know. But certain kinds of conduct bring out the Jeremiah in me.
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There are moments when everything changes. In my lifetime, one of these was seeing the picture of our planet Earth from space.
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On Oct. 16, Iraqi armed forces and Iran-supported Shia militias moved into the disputed town of Kirkuk, bringing the country close to civil war.
