Bert and I met on June 9, 1963, fell madly in love, talked incessantly, got engaged in October and married two months later, astonished by our commonalities and delighted by our differences.
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Stuart Eizenstat discusses what led to U.S. diplomatic agreements, what Eizenstat learned in his long career as a negotiator and what today’s negotiators can learn from the diplomatic successes and failures of the past to broker new treaties and bring peace to regions worldwide.
Thirty years after the Rebbe’s death, is Chabad the most influential Jewish denomination today?
“The Debate and the Collapse,” read the main headline of Yediot Aharonot, Israel’s largest centrist publication. The commentary column alongside the article, written by Nadav Eyal, was simply titled “Catastrophe.”
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In this update, 7 JPVP respondents talk about how Biden’s poor performance at the debate will affect their votes in November.
It’s easy to say a Jewish state is not needed from the safety of the United States.
Marc Fisher
Stephen Miller, Trump’s speechwriter and the architect of the deportation proposal, promised the biggest forced movement of people in American history.
Noah Feldman’s “To Be A Jew” Today offers readers from many branches of the Jewish family tree a glimpse of other boughs and limbs and what their close and distant cousins in Jewishness make of life in the family.
Sarah Posner
“Trump’s base wants Trump because he’s their messianic hero, but also because he enables a small bloc of religious zealots to use the government to impose their biblical worldview on everyone else.”
Borrowed from Yiddish and launched into the cultural stratosphere by a Canadian comedian and his Jewish mother-in-law, “verklempt” keeps evolving.
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“I think influence from the left has maybe changed his tune or his actions with regards to Israel.”
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“Biden should be replaced immediately for the sake of the country.”
