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During an interview with the BBC the day after he announced a package of sanctions and other punitive measures against Israel, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said “I don’t go to …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/16/26
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In the space of one month, Dana Nessel, Michigan’s Democratic attorney general, has issued two extraordinary statements with profound implications for Jewish life in America.
On July 30, she …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/9/26
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In six weeks, Israelis will go to the polls to elect a new government. They will be doing so for the first time since the Hamas pogrom of Oct. 7, 2023, brutally transformed the political landscape …
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By Ben Cohen
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8/20/26
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Diplomatic efforts to end the regional war launched by Hamas with its Oct. 7, 2023 pogrom in southern Israel have now returned to the place where it all started. Last week, the Board of Peace, the …
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By Ben Cohen
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8/13/26
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As of this week, five people died, and dozens more have fallen gravely ill from an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease concentrated on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
An extreme form of …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/30/26
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Nearly every country in the world now has a vocal, energetic movement pushing the cause of “Palestine” in terms indistinguishable from those deployed by the terrorist organization Hamas — …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/15/26
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Sigmund Freud wrote that “the true masochist always turns his cheek when he has a chance of receiving a blow.”
Freud’s observation lay at the core of his explanation of “moral …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/1/26
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It seemed so close. So tantalizingly, maddeningly close. The end of the Iranian regime will, however, have to wait for another day and perhaps another president in the distant future.
Over the …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/24/26
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The antics of Colombia’s outgoing leftist president, Gustavo Petro, have dominated headlines about the United Nations over the last week.
Petro arrived in New York to chair a special debate …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/17/26
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The war launched by Hamas through its Oct. 7, 2023 pogrom in southern Israel has been a multifront conflagration in which all roads lead to the regime in Tehran.
From Gaza to Iraq to Yemen — …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/10/26
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