Benjamin Ivry is a frequent Forward contributor.
Benjamin Ivry
By Benjamin Ivry
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Culture Why the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action matters to Jews
In Jewish thought. compensating individuals for past deprivation is both an obligation and a tradition
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Culture Jewish audiences and Samuel Beckett revered this clown — so did Adolf Hitler
Was Grock a Nazi sympathizer or a calculating opportunist?
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Culture To some free speech advocates, he was a hero; to Richard Nixon, he was an ‘arrogant intellectual Jew’
Daniel Ellsberg, famous for the 'Pentagon Papers,' has died at 92
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Culture Donald Trump is accused of violating the Espionage Act — so were the Rosenbergs
As some Jewish targets of federal investigations can tell the former president, these charges are no small matter
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Culture Dabbling in antisemitism, Pat Robertson portrayed himself as a friend to certain kinds of Jews
The televangelist, who has died at 93, once likened non-Christians to 'termites'
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Art How a ‘wise man of the shtetl’ evaded Soviet repression and antisemitism to achieve international fame as an artist
For a time, Ilya Kabakov was the only artist from the Soviet Union to have a successful career in the West as well as within the USSR
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Culture Why is the name of ‘the most vicious antisemite in the English-speaking world’ still so prominent at Cornell?
The anti-feminist, Jew-hating screeds of Goldwin Smith would seem to be at odds with the school's College of Arts & Sciences
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Culture She was the most famous Jewish actress of all time — can we still say she was the greatest?
Sarah Bernhardt wowed audiences with her performances as Shylock and Hamlet, but a century later only scant evidence of her genius remains.
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