Liam Hoare
By Liam Hoare
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Culture What Was Shimon Peres’s One Final Regret?
No Room For Small Dreams By Shimon Peres HarperCollins, 240 Pages, $27.99 There remains, one year after his passing, a void in Israeli politics in the shape of Shimon Peres. The former president and prime minister was, as Amos Oz eulogized at his funeral in September 2016, a trailblazer who seemed constantly ahead of his…
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Opinion The West’s Response To Hungary Affects The Future Of Europe — And Its Jews
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to Budapest earlier this week and got out of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán a promise that, to paraphrase Susan Sontag, never again will Hungarians be allowed to kill Jews in the 1940s. The government of Hungary committed a “sin” when “it did not protect its citizens of Jewish…
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Opinion The Far Left’s Toxic Mix Of Anti-Semitism And Misogyny Must Be Stopped
“The British elections should be a lesson for the Democratic Party,” Sen. Bernie Sanders wrote in The New York Times less than a week after race ended. Never mind that the left-wing Labour Party actually lost to the Conservative Party, much like Hillary Clinton defeated Sanders himself in the Democratic primaries. The American left, he…
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Culture Revisiting Tony Kushner’s ‘Angels In America’ In The Trump Era
‘Angels in America” is a play of its time and for ours, too. Tony Kushner’s magnum opus — currently in revival at London’s National Theater, and due in movie theaters here this July — is appropriately apocalyptic, informed by an impression of impending catastrophe. “History is about to crack wide open,” Ethel Rosenberg warns Roy…
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Opinion Has Jeremy Corbyn Hit His Ceiling?
This time last year, Britain’s Labour Party was having another leadership contest and they held a town hall in London for Jewish voters. There, Jeremy Corbyn affirmed Israel’s right to exist but then dodged questions about anti-Semitism within the party. His opponent, Owen Smith, criticized him for “downplaying and ignoring” specific cases of anti-Jewish hatred….
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Culture Howard Jacobson’s ‘Pussy’ Grabs Trump — By The Book
Pussy By Howard Jacobson Random House 208 pages, $22.95 ‘I keep being told by people that I’m becoming a bit of a ranter,” Howard Jacobson warned me about halfway into our conversation. We were sitting, having tea, in the main room of his London apartment, which is framed at one end by floor-to-ceiling windows, as…
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Culture Bernard-Henri Lévy and the Fight Against Isis
One of Bernard-Henri Lévy’s earliest works, 1979’s “The Testament of God,” argued that Jewish tradition holds an answer to the challenges of what he had earlier termed “barbarism with a human face.” “The Testament of God” was one of the books that propelled Lévy to become one of France’s leading public intellectuals. Now, thirty-five years…
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49 Reasons Why 2016 Wasn't as Bad as You Think Amos Oz and ‘Judas’
Even an annus horribilis can be redeemed if it contains a new Amos Oz novel. “Judas” was a quiet piece with a small ensemble roaming familiar Jerusalem streets, yet its deceptively simple structure hid multitudes. It wrestled with enormous ideas about love and loneliness, grief and treachery, presented with Oz’s characteristic mix of beauty, compassion,…
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