Tevi Troy is a presidential historian and former White House aide. In 2001, he served as the first director of the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives at the Department of Labor. His latest book is Fight House: Rivalries in the White House from Truman to Trump.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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“You go all the way, the cap, the shawl, and everything? Good for you!”
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And some appropriate recommendations.
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And other stories of the hasidic leader and the presidents.
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My Brother’s Keeper.
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A path through the valley of the shadow of death.
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Daf yomi turns 100.
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Employing a lesson from Jabotinsky.
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First, stop funding it.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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The New York City mayor made the enemies of Jews, and of the Jewish state, his own.
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If you can’t worship safely because of the threat of violence, how can you be free to practice your religion?
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David Ben-Gurion’s 18,000 books, and Menachem Begin’s many newspapers.
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Imagining an alternative Germany.
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“The refusal to be bound by rules, any rules, turned children against their elders, impelled them to . . . destroy their brains with drugs, burn books, and rage against the very idea of responsibility...
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Ken Duberstein, in memoriam.
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Don’t let the U.S. become another land that regrets driving away its Jews.
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An unabashedly Jewish comedian who won over audiences of all faiths.
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The Orthodox live near hipsters but vote like Mormons.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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President Biden’s speech is part of a welcome trend toward more religious language in public life.
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Some historical perspective.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Heshvan is the bitterest month.
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When ancient practices for honoring the dead become a threat to the living.
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From Ben-Gurion vs. Weizmann to Rabin vs. Peres.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Jeffrey Bloom begins his fine essay with a discussion of a form of addiction that has lately been the subject of widespread worry: the addiction of many Americans, and especially many younger Americ...
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The other seder was never supposed to be about environmental activism.
