Karol Markowicz
By Karol Markowicz
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Opinion Calling All Men Potential Rapists Only Endangers Women
“If you don’t want to be accused of being a rapist, just don’t rape anyone” reads a meme circulating on social media. “Oh, those poor white men,” groan our Facebook friends, “they’re just afraid of losing their privilege.” On Twitter, activist Danielle Muscato asked what women would do if men had a 9pm curfew. The…
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Opinion I Believe Dr. Ford. But I Believe Judge Kavanaugh, Too.
Does truth even matter? That was the main question on a day of hearings featuring Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing him of sexually assaulting her when they were both teenagers. No senator asked the question about the relevance of truth; instead, they asked about flatulence jokes and…
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Life Dear Liberals: It’s Not Racist For Me To Tell My Kids To Marry Jewish
In conversations with other parents, we often discuss what we would say if our children told us they were gay or transgender. It’s possible that I get this question more often than other people because I am an out-and-proud conservative living in the liberal enclave of Park Slope, Brooklyn. Having rarely come across a conservative,…
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Opinion I Was in Denial — But My Fellow Russian Jews Knew Donald Trump Would Win
If there’s a mea culpa for me to issue this election season, it’s mostly to my own community. The Russian Jewish community has long voted Republican, so it wasn’t completely strange that they lined up behind Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton. What was surprising to me, and frankly upsetting, was how much they liked Trump…
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Opinion By Supporting Donald Trump, Russian Jews Are Betraying Their Beliefs
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. In March 2012, less than a year before his reelection, Barack Obama was caught on a hot mic assuring Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that he just needed some space and time to comply with Russia’s requests to scale back missile…
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Opinion How It Felt To Watch the Presidential Debate as a Jewish Conservative
If there’s one overarching story to be told from 2016 it’s how the media complex failed to predict, recognize or accept the Donald Trump phenomenon — and how this colored the entire election. This is important, especially as that complex watches and comments on the debates between Trump and Hillary Clinton. In a normal election…
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Opinion As a Republican Jew, Am I Committing Political Suicide by Opposing Donald Trump?
Another day, another anti-Semitic trope in defense of Donald Trump. The latest defense is surprising, though, coming as it does from Caroline Glick in the Jerusalem Post. Glick writes that Republican Jews are committing “collective political suicide” by not supporting Trump — and that they’re taking the Republican Party, if not the entirety of American…
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Opinion If It’s Trump vs. Hillary, She’s the Pro-Israel Candidate
One of the more disappointing aspects of an all-around disappointing Donald Trump candidacy is that Republican Jews seem to be Trump-leaners. I say “seem to be” because there is limited data on how the small subset of Republicans who are also Jewish are voting in primaries. My people — that is, Russian Jews from the…
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