My latest in Outside magazine. It's about camping and cooking. Absolutely nothing about politics or Jews, so completely safe for work. Though the lede features my wife asking me, "Are you watching porn?"
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Netanyahu’s attack on the Israeli judiciary starting conversations the BDS campaign never managed:
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Celebrating John Ford birthday
David Lynch as John Ford.
"The Fablemans" Steven Spielberg
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#johnford BOTD
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The Queering of Anti-Semitism: How an unlikely alliance between LGBTQ Studies and anti-Zionism conquered American universities, writes .
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The response to ‘You People’ from quite a few Jews here and in a few magazines surprises me. Saying it’s not funny, okay. But calling the satirical comedy antisemitic or saying it “endangers” Jewish lives is absurd. When did we become such snowflakes? Loads of Jews liked it, BTW.
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YOU PEOPLE is the #1 movie on @netflix in 73 countries?!?! What the hell? Let's gooooo!!!!!
You can watch it now #onlyonNetflix #YouPeople
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Saving Israeli democracy isn't only a matter for Israelis but Diaspora Jews.
In this open letter to North American Jewry, I join with Matti Friedman and Danny Gordis to make that case.
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For those debating the merits of ‘You People’ on Netflix. An interesting interview with the co-writer/director. (Full disclosure: I liked the film.)
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thank you for the birthday wishes. Next up, 87
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🧵 This is something new. Not US-Israeli military exercises, which have taken place for years. But this kind of messaging about the kinetic capabilities the US and Israeli militaries bring to the table. It's very welcome. Three things stand out. 1/5
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Hello, look what just arrived. (Pre-orderable on Amazon; coming to a bookstore near you on April 5.)
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Thumbing through Paul McCartney's book, Lyrics, I'm struck again how the story of the Beatles and of Lennon & McCartney is one of the most beautiful narratives of the postwar era. It unfolds like a great novel, step by step, and you feel the powerful myth emerging in real time.
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In the wake of the November election results, Israelis are talking about demographics more than at any time in the past that I can remember. Why am I, a secular and (milquetoast) liberal Jew, cautiously optimistic about Haredi demographics in Israel? (Very long) thread. /1
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"...the data suggests that Zionists are more antisemitic than anti-Zionists."
The data.
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In both Europe and the US, the data suggests that Zionists are more antisemitic than anti-Zionists. That might sound crazy. But it's not. Zionism and antisemitism have been partners for a long time. Just ask Theodor Herzl jewishcurrents.org/antisemitic-zi
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"since he was released on bail last month, he has been "He has entertained a handful of visitors at his parents’ home, including the author Michael Lewis, who is writing a book about him"
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This is priceless.
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Everything changes once you know what McCarthy and Gaetz were actually saying
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I think this the 4th time I've watched the Guinness Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and it's still absolutely flawless
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Mostly a crude attempt to “analyze” and diminish Haberman. But this exchange makes you love her:
“I mentioned her well-documented fear of flying. Is it the claustrophobia that bothers her? She stared. ‘It’s the crashing.’ ”
“True, Israel is not a paragon of democracy…
But Israel is a paragon of the struggle for democracy within near-impossible conditions, a laboratory for testing the strength and limits of democracy under extremity.”
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“I think the new government is going to more strongly affect—and have a deleterious effect on—Israel than it will the West Bank and the Palestinians.”interview with Raja Shehadeh newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/q via
“Stop the Steal” was mostly a “Fleece the MAGA Gullibles” operation.
See great reporting here:
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Trump may be losing his real-estate acumen, but he’s found a new market in grifting would-be political insurrectionists, writes @TimothyNoah1. on.tnr.com/3IFzbhN
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“The Israeli left is dead… but the center is not. Quite the contrary. It’s quite possible that nothing will have done as much good for the center as this incoming government", by
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Why is it that New York reporters are sent to helicopter in all over America, but couldn’t get to the George Santos story in their own backyard?
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On the one hand, there is a legitimate point to be made about the effects of defunding local news, but boy oh boy the responses to this Timesman's attempt at an explanation are pretty devastating.
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To everyone asking why reporters didn't dig up the George Santos story before the election ... a fair question .... ask yourself when you last paid for your local newspaper, like Newsday on Long Island, which covers it day in and out.
Menachem Begin on the importance of the High Court as a check against a tyranny of the majority, via
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Bari Weiss was at home in Larchmont Village, changing her three-month-old’s diapers, when she heard her cell phone ping. It was a text message from the richest man in the history of the world.
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Bari Weiss was at home in Larchmont Village, changing her three-month-old’s diapers, when she heard her cell phone ping. It was a text message from the richest man in the history of the world.
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1/ Here's an example of the and doing one of the many small things (never mind the big things) it does to slant the story:
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“The crisis is less the results of the election than what our leaders have done with those results.” A deeply pessimistic view from , someone who’s not normally so dark.
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Worth reiterating. Fonda is and was a very complicated person and very great actress. 'Klute,' seen here, was perhaps her greatest performance. (I highly recommend the HBO docu about her.)
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Comedy genius! Artwork quotes Nazi, with illustration that is, at best, confused and incomprehensible. ("The dog represents the Jews," the kid-artist explains!?) Airport spokesperson shrugs, "Hey, we didn't pick it!" And they didn't. Local Jews did, to fight antisemitism!
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A grotesque piece of antisemitic "art" is being displayed at the Tampa Airport (@FlyTPA)
A Jewish Star of David adorns a leashed dog while swastikas are displayed with "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."
HOW was this allowed?!
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A revolutionary breakthrough in cheeseburger technology. (Seriously.)
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Same smash burger size, but twice the amount of crisp, browned crust. seriouseats.com/ultra-smashed-
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“Hard Times,” Charles Dickens’s blistering 1854 satire of utilitarianism, can be read as an allegorical Life of Sam Bankman-Fried.
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Re: Editorial and Tom Friedman: I too am deeply concerned on religion and state and women's issues, but on the two state solution, the obstacle has only ever been Arab, and especially Palestinian, refusal that one of the two states be Jewish. That is what has to change.
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Tweet of the week.
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Stop asking Jewish people when Hanukkah is. We don't know.
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“Shimmering lyricism,” “reminiscent of Philip Glass,” “reminds us that opera has always been the most ambitious of art forms.” Larry Wolff reviews ‘The Hours’ | The TLS
Fantastic book review of new D. H. Lawrence biography. A blast to read, and also makes you want to read the book.
When you actually see 'Downstate,' you won't find anything politically questionable or controversial. That's a smear. But you'll be blown away by the best acting I've seen onstage in years from all five lead actors.
It's been too easy for pro-Israel Jews like me to dismiss . But this piece is a watershed. Not because he's criticizing Israel and despairing about the future. That's not new. It's because I know he's right this time.