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I grew up in Venezuela. Will Maduro’s ouster bring my Jewish community the security we need?
Venezuela's Jews have been embattled for decades, and Maduro was the worst offender of all
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Opinion A year after the LA fires, the lesson is clear: Our greatest disasters are often self-inflicted
It's a lesson that the city's German Jewish exiles learned many decades ago
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Opinion Was Maduro’s abduction a ‘Zionist’ plot? The accusation is unfounded — and incredibly telling
Venezuela's acting president suggested an Israeli influence in the shocking US operation that unseated her predecessor
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Opinion A Jewish philosopher’s warnings expose the injustice of Trump’s attack on Venezuela
Michael Walzer's 'Just and Unjust Wars' is as applicable to Venezuela as it was to Vietnam
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Opinion The case for Jewish optimism in 2026
5 ways Jewish life may be better next year
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Opinion When Jews face violence, we’re told to move to Israel. Does that really make us stronger?
Why we need a thriving diaspora for real security
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Opinion It’s a classic trick of liars and crooks — and it’s shaping Israel’s response to war and disaster
The best way to avoid responsibility for a failure is to make everyone else responsible, too
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Opinion A Jewish-American exile behind the Iron Curtain, he never lost his love for East Germany
An Army private named Stephen Wechsler reinvented himself as Victor Grossman, critic of capitalism
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Opinion In Brigitte Bardot, a complicated legacy of movie stardom, activism, xenophobia and antisemitism
Bardot, who has died at 91, lurched to the right after she retired from motion pictures in 1973
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Opinion The Holocaust survivor writer who can help us through this ominous era
Arnošt Lustig experienced the worst of humanity — and maintained hope, anyway
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Opinion What if Donald Trump puts his name on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum?
in our new Trumpian world, even the most unthinkable acts now seem plausible
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