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Propagandists on either side of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict have erased the possibility of persuasion
This article is part of a new series called “On Persuasion.” We asked thought leaders to consider what persuasion means to them. What works in terms of persuading people? Is it moot in 2020? What is the Jewish value of persuasion? Should we be opening our minds to other points of view, or closing them…
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Opinion What we lose when we turn our backs on persuasion
This article is part of a new series called “On Persuasion.” We asked thought leaders to consider what persuasion means to them. What works in terms of persuading people? Is it moot in 2020? What is the Jewish value of persuasion? Should we be opening our minds to other points of view, or closing them…
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Opinion We don’t talk about ‘White anti-Semitism.’ Stop talking about Black anti-Semitism
It’s a difficult topic to bring up in mixed company, but it must be said: We need to have an honest conversation about White anti-Semitism. The anti-Semitism that exists throughout the White community is frightening. Many people know about White movie star Mel Gibson, who famously said that “the Jews are responsible for all the…
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Opinion Why are right wing Jews defending Sebastian Gorka, a man with ties to a Nazi-allied group?
The Jews don’t agree on much these days. Our community is divided by Trump, by Israel, by questions of religious observance. But you would think that if there were one thing we could all agree upon, it would be that members of far-right military orders linked to the Nazis are bad and should be condemned….
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Opinion Editorial | I don’t recognize the NYT that Bari Weiss quit
I do not recognize the New York Times that Bari Weiss describes in her resignation letter, and it terrifies me. This is not to say I do not believe Bari’s description of her experience, nor that I did not see some of what she laments in her letter before I left The Times last year…
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Opinion Bari Weiss is a casualty of the Left’s woke culture war
Years from now, those of us in the professional commentariat will remember where we were the day that Bari Weiss resigned from The New York Times. The nation’s paper of record has firmly chosen a side in the Left’s roiling ideological civil war between traditional liberalism and the new Marxism — or what one columnist…
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Opinion Why do free speech warriors only care when conservatives are canceled?
Earlier today, New York Times columnist Bari Weiss resigned from the paper of record. Weiss, who has written extensively about anti-Semitism and Jewish issues, announced her resignation in a blistering letter condemning The Times for supposedly adopting an ideologically homogeneous left-wing political orthodoxy, in which “Twitter has become its ultimate editor” and “the paper itself…
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Opinion We need to allow ourselves to be persuaded by beauty
This article is part of a new series called “On Persuasion.” We asked thought leaders to consider what persuasion means to them. What works in terms of persuading people? Is it moot in 2020? What is the Jewish value of persuasion? Should we be opening our minds to other points of view, or closing them…
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Opinion I spent 20 years in a white church. I’m done trying to persuade people.
This article is part of a new series called “On Persuasion.” We asked thought leaders to consider what persuasion means to them. What works in terms of persuading people? Is it moot in 2020? What is the Jewish value of persuasion? Should we be opening our minds to other points of view, or closing them…
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Opinion Donald Trump’s deadly game of persuasion
This article is part of a new series called “On Persuasion.” We asked thought leaders to consider what persuasion means to them. What works in terms of persuading people? Is it moot in 2020? What is the Jewish value of persuasion? Should we be opening our minds to other points of view, or closing them…
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Opinion Replace cancel culture with cultural appropriation
Should we honor men and women from the past whose beliefs or actions were odious by modern standards? This question has loomed large in our conversation during the recent protests against racial injustice. Monuments to leaders of the Confederacy, a proudly racist regime that sought to perpetuate white supremacy and slavery, are the easy part….
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