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Sheldon Adelson's Self-Defeating Meddling

By Samuel G. Freedman

Sheldon Adelson's Self-Defeating Meddling
Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson emphatically succeeded in his goal of affecting the presidential election. The only thing is, he succeeded in re-electing President Obama.Read More


Penn State: A Modern-Day Akeda

By Samuel G. Freedman

Penn State: A Modern-Day Akeda
We think that moral tests like the Biblical akeda don’t apply to us. Then we read about Penn State football coach Joe Paterno’s link to a abuse scandal, writes Samuel G. Freedman.Read More


After Riots, Jews Stayed in Crown Heights

By Samuel G. Freedman

After Riots, Jews Stayed in Crown Heights
CROWN HEIGHTS: 20 YEARS LATER. Other urban riots led to mass flight of whites. Not so in Crown Heights, where Jews stayed and thrived after the violence.Read More


Shabbat Meals: 'Comfort Food' — Chicken Tagine and Curried Couscous

By Samuel G. Freedman

Shabbat Meals: 'Comfort Food' — Chicken Tagine and Curried Couscous
On a Friday afternoon in September 2007, I set about making the most eventful Shabbat dinner of my life. After a summer of itinerancy, subletting an apartment and dressing out of a suitcase, I had moved into my first real apartment since separating from my wife. And the following Tuesday, inauspiciously the 11th, I would be having surgery for prostate cancer, a fearful and depressing prospect for someone newly single at nearly 52.Read More


Evoking a Community That Is the Sum of Its Shards

By Samuel G. Freedman

In the final pages of Orly Castel-Bloom’s novel “Human Parts,” a disabled and unemployed cab driver named Boaz Beit-Halahmi drives from his home in a Ramle slum to a medical clinic in Jerusalem. After months of ennui and privation, he has decided to seek a cure that might let him start supporting his household again. No sooner does he turnRead More







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