Josh Hammer
By Josh Hammer
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Opinion Bibi’s Trip To Saudi Arabia was all about a New Iran Deal
It is not exactly a secret that both the Israeli and Saudi governments would have strongly preferred a second term for President Donald Trump. Israel was thoroughly enamored with Trump, who, assuming the December 14 Electoral College vote confirms Joe Biden’s presumptive victory, will leave behind a legacy as the most unquestionably pro-Israel American leader…
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Opinion Bari Weiss is a casualty of the Left’s woke culture war
Years from now, those of us in the professional commentariat will remember where we were the day that Bari Weiss resigned from The New York Times. The nation’s paper of record has firmly chosen a side in the Left’s roiling ideological civil war between traditional liberalism and the new Marxism — or what one columnist…
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Opinion The best antidote to polarization is exposure
This article is part of a new series called “On Persuasion.” We asked thought leaders to consider what persuasion means to them. What works in terms of persuading people? Is it moot in 2020? What is the Jewish value of persuasion? Should we be opening our minds to other points of view, or closing them…
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Culture Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism
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News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
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Opinion The moral degradation of Israel’s far right is even worse than you think
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Culture In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
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