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Fast Forward Bari Weiss names Tony Dokoupil, who defended Israel on-air in closely scrutinized interview, to top CBS News anchor job
Dokoupil’s sparring match with Ta-Nahisi Coates divided CBS leadership at the time
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Fast Forward Bari Weiss, Free Press founder who started as antisemitism crusader, named editor-in-chief of CBS
Weiss aims to bring her brand of 'free thought and fearless reporting' to a much wider audience
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California Briefing California Briefing: How Bay Area Jews are weathering the “bomb cyclone”
Plus: Can you help ID these cute Israelis?
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Opinion American journalists need to start fact-checking Netanyahu in real time
Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly distorts the truth to English-language media without repercussions
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Opinion Why the backlash against Bari Weiss?
Whether she wants the job or not, L.A. transplant Bari Weiss has become a go-to face of American Jewry. After her appearance last Friday on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” she faced a firestorm of criticism for her remarks about the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of it is from the cottage industry of Bari Weiss…
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Culture 22 absolutely on-the-mark pop culture predictions for 2022
2021 was a year of new beginnings — not just for our newly reopened society, but also for the coronavirus pandemic, which continues to mutate into increasingly scary-sounding novel Greek letter variants. And so, we end 2021 on a note of uncertainty. In a year like this, when Taylor Swift surprised us with a 10-minute…
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Israel News Bari Weiss on Judaism, journalism and civil society
Journalist Bari Weiss received The Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism from the Los Angeles Press Club on October 16, 2021. Following is a transcript of her acceptance speech. “This award feels, I feel a little embarrassed, and that’s because the namesake of this award, Daniel Pearl, displayed the ultimate courage, courage…
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Fast Forward Opinion writer Bari Weiss resigns from New York Times
New York Times Opinion writer and editor Bari Weiss will leave the newspaper after a three-year tenure. In a resignation letter Weiss posted to her website, she attributed the decision to what she described as an “illiberal environment” within The New York Times. “The truth is that intellectual curiosity—let alone risk-taking—is now a liability at…
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