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  What’s New at the Metropolitan Opera?

  Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera Rudy Giuliani, Benjamin Netanyahu and Moses. One of these men is not like the other, and yet here they all get equal time. So does a Top Chef contestant. And so does Bubbie.

  By Lenore Skenazy

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  How Barack Obama Refuses To Learn From the Past

  Today’s lesson is about the importance of learning from history. You know what they say: Those who don’t are doomed to repeat it and all that. What they never tell you is how important it is to learn the right lesson. Otherwise you’ll just follow your first mistake with a bigger one. That’s the part…

  By J.J. Goldberg Oct 28, 2014 | 4 min read
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  How ‘Klinghoffer’ Stereotypes Both Sides

  “The Death of Klinghoffer” is among the most anti-Israel works of art I’ve experienced in recent years. And yet, it’s so intent on crafting a Cowboys-and-Indians story that it reduces its Palestinians to offensive, Orientalist caricatures. That’s right: This opera isn’t anti-Jewish. It’s anti-Palestinian. Far too much ink has already been spilled on the question…

  By Jay Michaelson Oct 27, 2014 | 4 min read

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• Dan Perry What exactly is going on between Israel and Syria — and is the prospect of peace dead?

  

• Emily Tamkin Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves it: The ‘gotcha’ mode of fighting antisemitism has to go

  

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  No, AIPAC Isn’t Anti-Israel

  Getty Images Jay Michaelson has it wrong. AIPAC is not, as he argues, anti-Israel. Most of what the lobby does is focused on strengthening the bond between the United States and Israel — various aspects of this relationship, including the U.S.-Israel security cooperation — which is undisputedly pro-Israel. But not only AIPAC. All American Jewish…

  By Ori Nir Oct 27, 2014 | 3 min read
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  Israeli Soldiers Create Least Sexy Pin-Up Ever

  Just a couple of months after the Gaza war, Israel has found a new way “to show the world the beauty of Israel and its people” — via the power of a pin-up calendar featuring real IDF soldiers. Or, as the creators of the MTKL Israeli Army Women Calendar like to call them, “the chosen amongst…

  By Sigal Samuel Oct 27, 2014 | 2 min read
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  Take Sex Assault Probes Off Campus

  What happens when institutions or communities don’t want to properly investigate allegations of sexual abuse for fear that it will harm their reputations or expose their powerful? We cry for reform, and in this case, reform means going outside. So U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York introduced the Military Justice Improvement Act earlier this…

  Oct 27, 2014 | 2 min read
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  Settlements, Snub Cause Latest U.S.-Israel Strain

  Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning a massive new wave of construction in the West Bank, according to a report Sunday night on Israel’s Channel 2 News. It’s part of a deal to calm his restive allies in the settler-backed Jewish Home party. The Channel 2 report has since been confirmed independently by Haaretz,…

  By J.J. Goldberg Oct 27, 2014 | 4 min read
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  When Palestinians Bury an American Teen

  Palestinian mourners carry Orwa Hammad to a prayer session at a Silwad school / Naomi Zeveloff On Sunday afternoon, the main street in Silwad, a village north of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was lined with parked cars for as far as the eye could see. Palestinians from all over the area had come…

  By Naomi Zeveloff Oct 26, 2014 | 4 min read
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  Why AIPAC Is Anti-Israel

  American Jews who support Israel have been fighting one another in an asymmetrical way: Hawks routinely accuse doves of being anti-Israel, but doves do not accuse the hawks. I’m not sure how this pattern has come about — maybe it just feels ironic for pro-peace people to pick a fight — but it needs to…

  By Jay Michaelson Oct 25, 2014 | 5 min read
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  Why Jews Will Vote Democrat Again

  Milton Himmelfarb, essayist and thinker, once famously quipped that “Jews earn like Episcopalians, and vote like Puerto Ricans.” There is some truth to this, and that’s why it prompts a laugh even from liberals. But what is this about? As the midterm elections approach, it’s worth contemplating why a resounding majority of us vote Democrat,…

  By Anne Roiphe Oct 24, 2014 | 4 min read
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  The Raw Honesty of Klinghoffer

  “You’re enabling terrorism!” a woman said as I made my way through a maze of police barricades and a crowd of angry protestors chanting in front of Lincoln Center. A man standing next to her ostentatiously photographed ticket holders, as though documenting them in the act of committing a crime. Neither of them understood a…

  By Lisa Goldman Oct 23, 2014 | 5 min read