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California Briefing California Briefing: How Bay Area Jews are weathering the “bomb cyclone”
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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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Culture Deborah Lipstadt, Etgar Keret and Ilya Kaminsky take home National Jewish Book Awards
Updated, January 17, 4:32 pm: This story has been updated to include a list to the complete list of winners of the 2019 awards. Short tales of whimsy, a new translation of the Bible, unsung American matriarchs and two rousing calls to combat the so-called “oldest hatred:” These are the winners of the 69th Annual…
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Culture Bari Weiss Has Answers, But She’s Not Asking The Right Questions
How to Fight Anti-Semitism By Bari Weiss Crown, $20, 224 pages The big question about “How to Fight Anti-Semitism,” Bari Weiss’s rallying cry against the contemporary rise of the titular prejudice is: Who is it for? The brief, stylishly designed book — the often-controversial New York Times columnist’s first, written in response to the Pittsburgh…
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