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Saul Bellow’s Israel, and Its Unchanged Enemies
To Jerusalem and Back.
Elliot Kaufman
Elliot Kaufman is the letters editor for the Wall Street Journal.
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“Get the Jew”: The Crown Heights Riot Revisited
By Michael Pack, Elliot Kaufman, Jonathan SilverCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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How Israel Proved the World Wrong in Rafah
Bringing Hamas to the negotiating table.
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In Trying to Show That There Are No “Bad Jews,” a New Book Declares That the Only Good Jews Are Leftists
No good Jew goes unpunished.
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Black Anti-Semitism, Like Other Kinds, Claims That the American System Is a Fraud
The refusal to defend Kanye West isn’t by itself a sign of civic health.
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Podcast: Elliot Kaufman on the Crown Heights Riot, 30 Years Later
By Elliot Kaufman, Tikvah Podcast at MosaicCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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For “Jews of No Religion,” Chabad Hasidism Is the Denomination of Choice
“They don’t need a rabbi for something that’s not Jewish.”
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How the Campus Crusade against Israel Suppresses Freedom of Speech and Open Inquiry
A cheap ploy made life hellish for a Jewish professor.
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A New Kind of Jewish High School Seeks to Bring Together the Best of Both Jerusalem and Athens
If traditional schools are going to teach secular subjects, it makes sense to teach them traditionally
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How Intersectionality Has Become a Political Weapon against Israel
Dissenting from anti-Israel orthodoxy has social consequences.
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Yossi Klein Halevi Makes an Eloquent Case for Israel, but Will Any Palestinians Read Him?
A model of productive engagement.
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The Campus Intersectionality Craze Makes Jews Uniquely Vulnerable
The weak versus the Jew.
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A Refreshing Exploration of the Jews’ Role in Creating American Democracy
“Your story is our story and your God is our God.”
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What Does Israel Have against George Soros? Quite a Lot, Actually
An anti-Israel screed in the New York Times.
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The British Government Wants to Shut Down a Jewish School for Declining to Teach Eight-Year-Olds about Homosexuality
Forcing secular orthodoxy on dissenters.
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The Obama Administration’s Parting Gift to the Palestinian Authority
An eleventh-hour circumvention of Congress.
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How Shabbat Can Bring Freedom to the Overstimulated
Can an ancient Jewish teaching make Andrew Sullivan human again?