War, the Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is famously said to have told a group of army cadets some years after the American Civil War, “is hell.” More than a century and a half …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/27/24
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Collisions are often unintentional. Bumping into someone as you walk down a busy thoroughfare with one eye on your cell phone or scraping a parked car as you reverse along a narrow street are …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/20/24
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As the world marked International Women’s Day last Friday, the various social-media platforms lit up with posts from pro-Israel celebrities and influencers demanding the release of the female …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/13/24
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W hen all is said and done, antisemitism is fundamentally an ideology of violence. Behind every missive and every barb — whether delivered online, at pro-Hamas rallies or graffitied on the …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/6/24
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The war in Gaza is prying open a potentially game-changing fissure in British politics that has wider implications for the Western world.
Last weekend, a recording surfaced …
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By Melanie Phillips
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2/21/24
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That old image of the Jewish family with a packed suitcase at the ready in case they are compelled to suddenly leave their home has returned with a vengeance across Europe.
In France and …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/21/24
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It was one of those incidents that you never expect will happen to you, but when it does, it changes your life irrevocably.
On June 8, 2023, a Thursday, a 67-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/14/24
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Should governments and public institutions take punitive measures against groups or individuals who promote antisemitism through such measures as cutting funding, criminalizing aspects of their …
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By Ben Cohen
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1/31/24
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As unsettling and painful as the current wave of global antisemitism that followed the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in Israel is, it’s still important to remember that those bestial atrocities were an …
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By Ben Cohen
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1/24/24
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During the middle of December, New Yorkers were treated to the sight of brash maroon and white beams splashed across the Manhattan skyline when the Empire State Building was lit up in the colors of …
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By Ben Cohen
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1/17/24
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