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Calling all Jews and honorary Jews of New York City!

Please join us on January 25 at 7:30pm at JCC Manhattan for a live recording of Unorthodox with three very special guests: Podcaster extraordinaire Jonathan Goldstein, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, and comedian and Late Show writer Jen Spyra!

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Yesterday, after having gone six months without a proper press conference, Donald Trump was forced into one in the midst of a breaking espionage scandal. A secret dossier had appeared, compiled by a British intelligence operative who was now on the run after the BBC had blown his anonymity and shown his picture on television. The unverified dossier included revelations that Trump associates or campaign figures had secretly met with Russian officials and concluded a deal which would include the... Читать дальше...

By now, the fact that Meir Banai released an album called Shema Koli (“Hear my voice”), words taken from the opening of the liturgy for Yom Kippur, seems utterly unremarkable. And that alone is indication of the pervasiveness of the revolution of which he was a part.

As our intellectual and moral betters on the left have been informing us for the longest time, anti-Zionism does not equal anti-Semitism. So it only stands to reason that when you burn down a synagogue in Germany, you may be doing it solely as an overly enthusiastic expression of disagreement with Israel’s policies.

Victoria Cook is a graduate of Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She’s now a partner at Frankfurt, Kurnit, Klein & Selz, and has been featured in New York Law Journal‘s “Top Women in the Law,” New York-area “Super Lawyers,” The Legal 500 for copyright law matters, and more. She’s also a former yeshiva girl who co-produced “Screwed,” a documentary about pornographer Al Goldstein.

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is under investigation.

That’s an evergreen headline: In the past two decades, Netanyahu has braved no fewer than 12 large-scale inquiries for various types of alleged misconduct, overseen by three attorneys general and two state comptrollers and resulting in precisely zero indictments. The accusations were frequently lurid, like something out of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—The Case of the Garden Furniture! The Case of the Pistachio Ice Cream!—and yet... Читать дальше...

It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. That’s what I kept telling myself late into election night. Nov. 8, 2016 was my 35th birthday and I firmly expected a Hillary Clinton victory. I didn’t put much stock into the national polling that said Hillary had a 13 percent national lead. I wasn’t expecting a landslide or a squeaker, but a solid, convincing win.

With a month having passed since the election of Donald Trump, I have found myself doing lots of reflecting on things that, in hindsight, I should have paid more attention to. One such memory comes from what should have been a cathartic moment—voting. I had waited in line for no more than 30 seconds when the man behind me imprinted himself in my memory. He was older, and white, and wearing a Tennessee Volunteers hat, which you don’t necessarily see often in Florida, a state with its own share of notable College Football programs. Читать дальше...