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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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Culture How Eli Valley’s Art Started An Anti-Semitism Scandal At Stanford
It began on Thursday, May 2, when members of the Stanford chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) posted flyers with cartoons by Eli Valley, a Jewish political cartoonist known for his provocative drawings of right-wing and Jewish figures. Soon after, Nazi-era propaganda appeared in freshman dorms. By May 7 one of The New…
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Fast Forward From George Carlin To Bari Weiss: What Are The New ‘Seven Dirty Words?’
New York Times opinion writer and editor Bari Weiss is coming out with a book, as reported by CNN’s Reliable Sources. The oft-controversial Jewish columnist will publish “The New Seven Dirty Words” with Holt in winter 2020. The book appears based on a discussion she gave at the Chautauqua Institution in July, with the same…
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