In considering the furor around President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Stephen Bannon, the CEO of the hard-right news website Breitbart, as his chief strategist, let’s start …
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By Ben Cohen
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11/23/16
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When I worked for the Anti-Defamation League more than a decade ago, relations between the Polish government and the Jewish community worldwide were incomparably better than they are now. But …
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By Ben Cohen
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5/8/19
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For two weeks in June, Washington host a group of pro-Palestinian activists who have assembled an exhibit about the dispersion of the Palestinians during Israel’s War of Independence. The …
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By Ben Cohen
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5/21/15
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It would be churlish to deny the remarkable achievement of Senator Bernie Sanders in decisively winning the New Hampshire primary.
For months, Sanders was depicted as an eccentric whose …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/17/16
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This week, as Jews across the world celebrate Chanukah, they also remember the victory of the Maccabees against the brutal rule of Antiochus IV, designated “Harasha” (“the wicked”) by rabbinic tradition. Antiochus’s main aim was to Hellenize the Jews in the ancient land of Israel by forcing them to adopt Greek customs in place of Jewish ones.
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By Ben Cohen, JNS
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12/4/13
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Iran thrust its way back into the news cycle last week as President Joe Biden embarked on a four-day tour of the Middle East beginning in Israel, but arguably, the most significant event to …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/21/22
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Unless you follow the news from Europe closely, it’s unlikely you’ll be aware that last week, seven alleged Hamas suspects believed to be planning attacks on Jewish targets were arrested …
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By Ben Cohen
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12/27/23
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On one of my first assignments abroad as a rookie journalist back in the early 1990s, I found myself in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, just as the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia was getting …
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By Ben Cohen
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12/13/16
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President Donald Trump’s plan to significantly reduce the number of American troops stationed in Germany has been causing ripples even among Republican lawmakers, who are — and not …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/3/20
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Imam Mundhir Abdallah is a good example of the dilemma facing Danish politicians when they respond to extremism among the country’s 300,000 Muslims, most of whom are first- or …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/11/18
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