A professor at the University of Houston, Robert Zaretsky is also a culture columnist at the Forward.
Robert Zaretsky
By Robert Zaretsky
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Culture A Jewish prophet of the 1980s would be horrified to see that we didn’t heed his warnings
Neil Postman's 1984 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' anticipated our image-saturated, post-literate world
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Oct. 7: One Year Later How 10/7 — like 9/11 before it — irrevocably changed the meaning of a pair of numbers
Lee Yaron tells '100 human stories' amid the horrific wreckage of 10/7
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Opinion In Germany, a disturbing rise for the far right and an eerie sense of deja-vu
To observers of Napoleon and Hitler, the results of elections in Thuringia and Saxony might seem familiar
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Culture For the 900th time, an antisemitic attack is an attack on all of France
For French Jews after a bombing outside a synagogue, it's 'plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose'
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Culture Meet the new antisemitism, same as the old antisemitism
For linguist Shalom Lappin, author of 'The New Antisemitism,' the current crisis for Jews is also a crisis for liberal democracy
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Culture Though cozy with antisemites, this movie star confronted his country’s complicity in the Holocaust
A supremely contradictory figure, Alain Delon, who died at 88, was rightly called a 'sacred monster'
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Opinion Why Florida’s charge to scrutinize university syllabi for ‘antisemitism or anti-Israel bias’ is a joke
You could say the effort smacks of Orwell — if anyone in charge actually knew who Orwell was
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Opinion Israel’s use of torture is a travesty — just like it was for the French in Algeria 70 years ago
History repeated itself in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. With Israel's treatment of prisoners, it's repeating itself again.
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