Sergio DellaPergola
By Sergio DellaPergola
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Opinion Bigger Population Estimate Means Wider Definition of Jewishness
If the United States had 6.7 million holders of a doctorate, and 1 million of these hold a doctorate partly, how many Ph.D.s are there in America? Or, to use another analogy, what’s the meaning of a partly democratic government, or of being partly pregnant? Few among the leading intellectuals in this country will object…
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Opinion Avigdor Lieberman’s Bright Idea
Avigdor Lieberman’s electoral success has been a cause of alarm in Israel and abroad. Lieberman’s critics are justifiably concerned by his often inflammatory rhetoric, as well as his demand that the right to vote be made contingent upon citizens taking a loyalty oath — a policy totally unacceptable in a democratic society. One of Lieberman’s…
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Film & TV What Gal Gadot has said about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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Opinion Is this new documentary giving voice to American Jewish anguish — or simply stoking fear?
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Opinion Mike Huckabee said there’s ‘no such thing as a Palestinian.’ It’s worth thinking about what that means
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Opinion Think every Palestinian in Gaza is Hamas? This week’s protests prove you’re wrong
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Opinion A Palestinian Oscar-winner’s arrest shocked the world. For these Jewish activists, it was terrifyingly normal
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Opinion In the Trump administration and Israel, a grotesque display of virility coupled with a loss of humanity
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Fast Forward Cornell’s new Jewish president says he is ‘very comfortable with where Cornell is currently’
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