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Opinion
It’s a classic trick of liars and crooks — and it’s shaping Israel’s response to war and disaster
The best way to avoid responsibility for a failure is to make everyone else responsible, too
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Opinion A Jewish-American exile behind the Iron Curtain, he never lost his love for East Germany
An Army private named Stephen Wechsler reinvented himself as Victor Grossman, critic of capitalism
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Opinion In Brigitte Bardot, a complicated legacy of movie stardom, activism, xenophobia and antisemitism
Bardot, who has died at 91, lurched to the right after she retired from motion pictures in 1973
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Opinion The Holocaust survivor writer who can help us through this ominous era
Arnošt Lustig experienced the worst of humanity — and maintained hope, anyway
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Opinion What if Donald Trump puts his name on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum?
in our new Trumpian world, even the most unthinkable acts now seem plausible
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Opinion ‘Jesus is a Palestinian,’ claims a Times Square billboard. Um, not quite
A new billboard in Times Square is misguided in dangerous ways
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Opinion An Israeli media mainstay is crumbling. Will liberal democracy go with it?
With a vote to close Army Radio, the cabinet takes yet another alarming antidemocratic step
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Letters My childhood echoes in newly released Shoah recordings
The New York Historical is exhibiting recordings made by Claude Lanzmann as he was researching his film, 'Shoah'
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Opinion The Gaza hostage crisis could forever change how American Jews relate to Israel — but it’s not too late to fix that
The US approach to advocacy widened the gap between how American Jews relate to Israel and how Israelis understand themselves
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Opinion When my children decorate for Hanukkah, I don’t just see pride. I see pluralism in action.
The shooting in Sydney highlights the deadly consequences of a world intolerant visible religious difference, writes a rabbi
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Opinion He lost family during the Bondi Beach attack. Hours later, he helped feed 600 unhoused people in LA
Yossi Segelman grew up with Rabbi Eli Schlanger
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