Earlier this year, I was invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a yearly gathering of business titans
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In every episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David is right and wrong, ridiculous and reasonable, a well-intentioned pervert and an endearing asshole. ...
A few minutes after 4 p.m. on October 3, hundreds of Palestinian citizens of Israel marched through Arraba, a town
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If there is a new Democratic consensus on Israel, it’s coalescing around criticism of its policies and behavior and a willingness or even a desire to punish Israel. ...
For all of September, Ed Sheeran, a previously uncontroversial Irish singer-songwriter, has been roiled in a free-speech debate over the
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Brad Sherman, a representative with a long track record of support for Israel, is warning the Israeli government that support is falling. ...
De-Nur reconstructed the extermination camps according to the principle that they could not be talked about, that we didn’t possess a language adequate to confront them, nor a human vista of comprehension wide enough. ...
At the conclusion of the holiday, a member of the community wrote to me: “Our society needs leaders who are willing to share emotion and vulnerability. We must not be Sparta.” ...
For these artists, being funded isn’t the problem so much as making songs that people connect with. An audience is surprisingly astute at sniffing out a phony, and just like any musicians, the actual quality of the songs here is quite a mixed bag. ...
The Sunshine State, once blue, then a swing state and now a solid Republican stronghold, provided something for everyone. Pro-Israel supporters registered a nice count of wins, while progressive critics of Israel also had a good day. ...
Rudyard Kipling's poem “The Burden of Jerusalem," while largely unknown, points to antisemitic notions in the author's work. ...
He died in 1988 at age 84 and was buried without fanfare. His story of heroism was buried as well, until his son found a stack of letters hidden behind a chimney at the family estate. ...