Ido Levy has a BA in government from IDC Herzliya and is studying for a masters in public policy at Georgetown University. He is the son of Israeli immigrants and was born and raised in New York City. He can be reached via email.
Ido Levy
By Ido Levy
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Community The Jewish Case for Cynthia Nixon
The first time I heard Cynthia Nixon was running for governor of New York, I was unsure what to think. Previously, I knew her only as an actress from Sex and the City and as the mother of one of my classmates. Sure, I’d heard about her activism, but taking on Andrew Cuomo? Seemed like…
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Community The West’s Shameful Failure to Support the Kurds
The aftermath of World War I had left the world’s 30-45 million Kurds split between four countries: Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. Since then, they have been clamoring for independence amidst oppression, marginalization and violent persecution at the hands of these four countries. The collapses of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq and Bashar al-Asad’s in…
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Community How Israeli Culture Killed The Mensch
“Be a mensch,” a person of integrity, is a phrase one will likely hear frequently growing up Jewish in the United States. Striving for moral goodness is a quintessential feature of Judaism in America. Israeli Jews live by a completely different dictum: “don’t be a freier” — a sucker. A freier is easily exploited, something…
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Community Our Modern Chieftain King
The biblical King David was a poet, musician, and conqueror, but we remember him primarily as a warrior. Indeed, all of David’s most notable exploits were martial: his duel with Goliath, his conquest of Jerusalem, his enlargement of the Kingdom of Israel — he even enabled his affair with Bathsheba by sending her husband, Uriah,…
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Opinion Trump Acts A Lot Like This 16th Century Chinese Emperor
“The Book of Judges” emphasizes the dangers of a vacant throne and recounts the hardships and tragedies that befell the Israelites “when there was no king in Israel.” Instead, a series of “judges” filled the absent king’s shoes. These judges were neither administrators nor statesmen, but rather charismatic rulers who led factions of Israelites as…
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Opinion Why We Need To Dial Down Our Anti-Trump Rhetoric
To all those sensible people who are just as outraged as I am about the rise of Donald Trump: please curb your uproar. We all know Trump has gone farther than we would have liked, but our anger only legitimizes his success and gives fuel to his momentum. Criticism is a compliment in itself, garnering…
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