How Saudi Arabia Can Put Itself Back in America’s Good Graces
The path to Washington may run through Jerusalem.
December 7, 2020
The return of the restricted club.
Once a fixture of American life, the restricted social club has long been assumed to be a thing of the past. But the phenomenon seems to have made a return, in a 21st-century version, in the form of a Los Angeles all-female by-invitation-only Facebook group known as Girls’ Night Out (GNO). The exclusive group has over 30,000 members, and besides being a hub for restaurant recommendations and informal conversations, has also served to help small businesses find customer, actresses auditions, and so forth. Following the killing of George Floyd, GNO endorsed the Black Lives Matter movement and became more political—and then, writes Emily Benedek, it came for the Jews:
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The Said-Khalidi school of history.
The return of the restricted club.
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Jesuit Kaddish.