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On Tuesday night, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump repeated one of his few consistent foreign policy views. Speaking in North Carolina, the mogul said, “Saddam Hussein was a bad guy…but you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good.”

Beatboxing duo and friends Ilan Swartz-Brownstein and Joshua Shlomo Mendel Leviton made a smart choice to call themselves “Ilan and Josh,” because their full names are a mouthful even for members of the Tribe, let alone Gentiles.

The work of Elie Wiesel, who died last Saturday at the age of 87, was, before all, concerned with the task of memory, of preserving the horrors of the Holocaust, as well as the beauty of pre-War Jewry in Europe.

There are times during this presidential election circus that I ooze hot steam out of my ears and nostrils and eye cavities, wondering if I’m the only one who has yet to become normalized to Donald Trump’s utter punking of the American political system. Why have 13 million people already voted for this clown, this xenophobic, women-bashing, bomb-everything, fear-mongering galumph? I wonder. Am I on acid?

I am blessed to live in an incredibly happy home. A home where we fry latkes, make jollof rice, and spend a lot of time laughing. I have a multi-racial Jewish family. I am an Ashkenazi Jew. My husband is a Ghanaian American Jew.

For the first time in its modern history, Israel faces no imminent strategic threat, its generals say. If Israelis should be feeling more confident about their security and optimistic about the future, then why have they been flocking to a play based on an adaption of To the End of the Land, David Grossman’s award-winning, deeply pessimistic novel about Israel’s future?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ongoing visit to four sub-Saharan African countries got off to an awkward start on July 4, when 71-year-old Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni gave a puttering and gaffe-filled speech at Entebbe Airport to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the successful Israeli raid that ended a hostage crisis there.