Raphael Magarik
By Raphael Magarik
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Opinion The OU Should Stick To Kosher Laws – Or Become Treif
The Orthodox Union has a branding problem. This week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke at their Advocacy Center’s annual Leadership Mission, amid protests over the policy, which Sessions created and presides over, of separating masses of children from their parents at the United States border. At the OU conference, Sessions enthusiastically endorsed the Supreme Court’s…
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Culture Sadly, The Ku Klux Klan Was A Lot More Mainstream Than You Think
Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s By Felix Harcourt University of Chicago Press, 272 Pages, $45 The “alt-right” is alarming, partly because it is youthful. American conservatism often presents itself stodgily: middle-aged men wearing bow ties or affecting English accents; clean-shaven pastors (also men) delivering clean, safe sermons; stiff, suited military…
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Opinion Netanyahu’s Hatred Of Soros Is A Rejection Of Diaspora Jews
On Thursday, the British tabloid “The Telegraph” ran a cover story featuring a picture of George Soros with the headline “Man who ‘broke the Bank of England’ backing secret plot to thwart Brexit.” The outrage against the headline’s anti-Semitic portrayal of a globalist anti-patriotic Jewish banker’s secretive plot was swift and effective. But The Telegraph’s…
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Opinion Why We Liberal Zionists Need BDS – Even If We Oppose It
This week, Israel placed twenty far-left groups, including Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and CodePink, on a “blacklist.” Leaders of groups that support the boycott against Israel will no longer be allowed into its borders. This is bad news, no doubt about it. Strong democracies welcome dissent, from citizens and foreigners alike. Only insecure, authoritarian…
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Culture How Hobby Lobby Appropriates Jewish Culture To Shill For Christ
Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby By Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden Princeton University Press, 240 pages, $29.95 The members of the Green family, who own the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, are evangelical Christians and billionaires best known for persuading the Supreme Court that their religious principles entitled their…
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Opinion No, Cornel West Is Not An Anti-Semite
In 1966, the eminent Jewish theologian Michael Wyschogrod wrote an article called “The Jewish interest in Vietnam,” in which he argued that Jews should support American intervention in Vietnam. A Communist victory in Vietnam, he worried, would encourage Russian support of the Palestine Liberation Organization and thus threaten Israel. Several million Vietnamese dead later, Wyschogrod’s…
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Opinion Why Princeton Hillel Was Right To Disinvite Israeli Official
Princeton’s Hillel has indefinitely postponed a scheduled event with Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, due to pressure from progressive students. The cancelation by the Hillel, known as the Center for Jewish Life, came after students complained that Hotolevy has “repeatedly made racist statements.” Hotovely denies any Palestinian claim to land, and recently told Palestinian…
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Opinion No, that Alan Dershowitz cartoon wasn’t anti-Semitic
Supposedly there was a blood libel last week at University of California, Berkeley. After Alan Dershowitz spoke at the law school, the student newspaper ran a cartoon that provoked numerous complaints about anti-Semitism, including letters by University of California Chancellor Carol Christ and Dershowitz himself, who wrote that there was “little doubt that this abhorrent…
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