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Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen reflects on his time in high school with Bernie Madoff and his future wife.
The Israel option
Writing in The Washington Post, John Bolton says an Israeli strike is the only “timely option” for derailing the Iranian nuclear program.
Unhip Commentary
D.G. Myers says Jewish hipsters are a specter haunting American Jewry, but he’s just picking on an easy—and marginal—target, JTA’s Ben Harris writes.
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Mondoweiss
single loyalty: man jumps from American Jewish Committee to Israel's National Security Council
Ynet meets Dr. Eran Lerman, who took office Thursday as deputy chief of Israel's National Security Council. For the last nine years, Dr. Lerman has served as the director of the American Jewish Committee's Middle East office. The AJC is...Read more »
Mondoweiss
Obama, middle east messiah
Robert Dreyfuss in the Nation, from Tehran: And then there was the Obama factor. Countless Iranians watched his June 4 Cairo speech, and its transcript was parsed word by word. By offering to respect Iran rather than locating it in...Read more »
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Mazal Tov “La Jewminicana”
Big phat congrats to “La Jewminicana,” winner of the Cool Jew 4th of July Giveaway! The Cool Jew 4th of July Gift Box contains $100 in prizes: * Diversity t-shirt that reads, “It takes all of us to make the land bloom,” from Jean Roth of Rotem Gear * Alan Orich’s latest Jewish Hero Corps comic book * We Read more »
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