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Why Racist Emails at U. of Chicago Frat Made Me So Furious
I grimaced when I heard about the racist and sexist emails exchanged at the Alpha Epsilon Pi Chapter at the University of Chicago - my alma mater. Then I read the emails, and I became furious.
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Want To Be a Good Liberal? Don't Push for Gun Control Right Now.
After San Bernadino, you may think that we are suffering from a growing epidemic of gun violence. J.J. Goldberg says it’s just the opposite — and pushing for stricter gun controls may backfire.
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Why Campus #BlackLivesMatter Protests Are Bad for the Jews
A day before University of Missouri graduate student Jonathan Butler made headlines with a hunger strike protesting racism on campus, a coalition of 36 Jewish and civil rights organizations contacted University Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin to protest a vile act of anti-Semitism that had recently occurred at Mizzou: Someone had used feces to smear a swastika on a bathroom wall.
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Does Hillary Clinton Have a Haim Saban Problem?
Haim Saban, one of Hillary Clinton’s top donors, may be aligned with the Democratic Party. But when it comes to Mideast politics, he’s far from a progressive.
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What Should I Tell My Toddler About Santa?
We’re going to the in-laws for Christmas and my son’s cousins believe in Santa. What, if anything, should I tell him about jolly old St. Nick?
How College Can Put the Jewish in Children of Intermarriage
Despite decades of worry that American ‘children of intermarriage’ would be lost to the community, a large-scale study found that the story is more complicated, and more hopeful.
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What's Killing America's Middle-Aged White Working Class?
Ever since New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman published his best-selling 2005 treatise on globalization, “The World Is Flat,” I’ve been troubled by a nagging question: If globalization and technology have opened limitless opportunities for anyone with the skills and resources to reinvent themselves, what happens to folks who aren’t clever or connected?
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How I Would Reaffirm Unbreakable Bond With Israel — and Benjamin Netanyahu
EXCLUSIVE: As Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to visit the White House, Hillary Clinton vows to mend the ties between Israel and America. The Democratic frontrunner says she would make a dramatic statement by inviting the prime minister back within her first month in office.
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The Wesleyan Debate on Free Speech — and What It Means for Israel
A debate over race and free speech is roiling Wesleyan University. Jane Eisner finds unmistakable parallels to the fraught conversation about Israel that is the subject of so much Sturm und Drang on campuses across the country.
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'Red Oaks' Proves That the Prurient Male Gaze Is Alive and Well
Amazon, the e-commerce behemoth that is coming ever closer to eliminating the time between desire and fulfilment, is not satisfied with being merely the world’s biggest bazaar. Over the years, it has become a content generator of its own, buying newspapers, publishing books and, apparently, producing Jewish-themed television shows.
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Why Ben Carson's Rant About Gun Control and the Holocaust Is So Dangerous
It’s easy to dismiss Ben Carson’s remark that gun control caused the Holocaust as the ravings of a man who makes Donald Trump seem circumspect. Except, as Jay Michaelson points out, millions of Republicans believe the anti-Semitic canard.
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