Sam Sussman
By Sam Sussman
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Culture The Deaths Of Others: Why 9/11’s Great Novel Still Hasn’t Been Written
On September 19, 2001, an obscure Chicago politician was afforded three hundred words in the Hyde Park Herald to react to the September 11 attacks. “Even as I hope for some measure of peace and comfort to the bereaved families,” he wrote, “I must also hope that we as a nation draw some measure of…
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Opinion Why Doesn’t Birthright Believe In Israeli Democracy?
So they will never know Wadeea. This was the thought that came to me as I read the disappointing news that Birthright has chosen to end meetings with Arab citizens of Israel, who make up one-fifth of Israel’s population. Birthright’s official statement explained that “there is a need for further analysis” of such meetings before…
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Fast Forward In Michigan, Boston and elsewhere, pro-Palestinian protesters assert themselves at college graduations
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