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leon wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier on Jewish journalism: ‘Investigate and analyze Jewish identity’
Danielle Berrin
January 26, 2017
Netanyahu critic Leon Wieseltier says Israeli PM is right on Iran deal
Jewish Journal
August 13, 2015
Political commentator Leon Wieseltier acknowledged that despite his dislike for Benjamin Netanyahu, he believes the Israeli prime minister is right about the Iran nuclear deal.
Jewish name-calling: a note on Michael Oren, Leon Wieseltier and the art of insult
Danielle Berrin
July 6, 2015
What will New Republic exodus mean for American Jewish thought?
Jewish Journal
December 9, 2014
Last week’s departure of most of the editorial team at The New Republic — including Franklin Foer, Leon Wieseltier, Judith Shulevitz and Julia Ioffe — didn’t just blow a hole in the landscape of American journalism.
A rabbi’s eulogy for Steven Sotloff
Danielle Berrin
September 5, 2014
“Is there a sorrow greater than this?\” Rabbi Terry Bookman, senior rabbi at Temple Beth Am in Miami where I grew up, asked as he opened Friday\’s memorial service for slain journalist Steven Sotloff.
Amid turmoil, Wieseltier sees clear path in Middle East
Tom Tugend
February 16, 2011
You have to sympathize with public speakers asked to deliver carefully prepared lectures on the situation in the Middle East, where events have a habit of overtaking incisive scholarly analyses. So it befell Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of the New Republic, prolific writer and all-around public intellectual, who was the speaker at the ninth annual Daniel Pearl Lecture at UCLA last week.
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