Opinion

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  Save your outrage: Elon Musk’s inauguration salute is just another distracting meme

  The new administration will bring four years of far more important battles to fight

  By Rob Eshman

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  Opinion

  Netanyahu’s rejection of an Oct. 7 inquiry is a national disgrace

  His coalition's vote against an investigating commission endangers Israel's security

  By Dan Perry Jan 22, 2025 | 3 min read
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  Nazi salute or not, Elon Musk was gesturing to a new spectacle of fascism

  Walter Benjamin warned us about the meaning of Musk's salute seen round the world

  By Robert Zaretsky Jan 21, 2025 | 3 min read

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• Dan Perry The 3 responses to the Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack that could make Jews safer

  

• Emily Tamkin The fundamental miscalculation behind the GOP’s antisemitism crisis

  

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  A dramatic inauguration, and a spectacular hostage release: What’s behind the theater of Trump 2.0?

  The president's second term promises to be full of action, starting with Iran and campus antisemitism

  By Pini Dunner Jan 21, 2025 | 4 min read
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  The LA fires torched my grandfather Arnold Schoenberg’s legacy — and the site of a rich Jewish emigre history

  We must preserve the history of the Pacific Palisades as a haven for refugee artists

  By E. Randol Schoenberg Jan 21, 2025 | 4 min read
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  Trump, Netanyahu and Ta-Nehisi Coates want us to believe the world is simple — it isn’t

  Slogans uttered at the inauguration and elsewhere belie the complexities we need to face

  By Aviya Kushner Jan 20, 2025 | 5 min read
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  As a new Trump administration begins, I’m looking to this Soviet Jewish dissident for guidance

  If you're alarmed as I am by the new president's first actions in office, the rights-based dissident movement has lessons to share

  By Emily Tamkin Jan 20, 2025 | 4 min read
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  What Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Ruth and the burning bush can teach us about the LA fires

  Homes are burned but our spirit cannot be consumed

  By Naomi Levy Jan 17, 2025 | 4 min read
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  As Trump takes the oath of office, remember its most famous phrase has roots in Christian nationalism

  'So help me God' may sound innocuous — yet the history of the plea's insertion in the oath is anything but

  By David B. Parker Jan 17, 2025 | 5 min read
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  I’m a Jew who teaches at Rutgers. Our campuses must stop trying to pacify the government over antisemitism

  A spate of recent university settlements with the Department of Education has troubling implications for free speech

  By Hank Kalet Jan 16, 2025 | 4 min read
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  Gaza ceasefire is the result of political machination — not Donald Trump

  Politically, Netanyahu could have survived a deal earlier, but he made a political calculation not to strike one

  By Jay Michaelson Jan 15, 2025 | 3 min read