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The November issue of Commentary is now available.
Why liberal Jews need to reject the left, why the culture war is never-ending, and more.
With contributions from @AbeGreenwald, @jkirchick, @NaomiSRiley, @rcbl, @jpodhoretz.
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LISTEN: Contributing editor @EliLake is back to discuss the election postmortems and the Republican recriminations after their stunning defeat, how big a part did the Iran war play in voter dissatisfaction with the GOP, and the factional dispute within the right and its impact on JD Vance’s chances in 2028.
Plus, how can Jews respond to these negative trends?
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"Trump was elected because of the inflation, and he has not solved the inflation."
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Kwall is less interested in cataloguing division than in overcoming it.
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There is a recurring historical pattern in which the zenith of Jewish thriving becomes the precipice for Jewish existence.
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Anti-Semitic campaigns used to require some effort, some commitment. Now online Jew-baiting and blacklisting are moving into their Jetsons era, a futuristic digital playground. If you thought anti-Semites were ignorant before, just wait till they fully indulge their laziest instincts.
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In Europe and the U.S., far-left critics of Israel “are not overtly anti-Semitic” but discuss the country using “the Marxist-Leninist categories: finance capital, colonialism, and imperialism.”
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Jewish self-respect nearly stopped El-Sayed in the primaries and made him a much weaker candidate in the general.
@SethAMandel
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"You can be extraordinarily hostile to the media and they will stay on your side as your cheerleaders no matter what."
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Today's episode @commentary: Democrats ride a blue wave. Plus, I make a recommendation. commentary.org/noam-blum/wav…
LISTEN: Our friend @continetti is back to discuss the massive GOP wipeout in the midterm elections, analyze the causes for the historic loss, look ahead to the next two years in Washington, and drill down on individual race results across the country.
Plus, Matt recommends Fodor’s Florida Travel guide.
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November 3, @elianayjohnson recommends The Questions Adam Hamawy Won't Answer by @powellAtlantic
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"The stickers, which were first distributed in the 1980s, are primarily virtue-signaling devices—pre-internet advocacy emojis."--from today's newsletter
The real point is to plant the idea that Americans are going hungry because of the Jews.
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And here we come to the weirdest part of this book, which has gone unremarked thus far in its interestingly hostile reception: His examples do not represent the views he wants them to.
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Before World War II, Warsaw was home for nearly 20 years to a Yiddish theater museum. How is there not a proper brick-and-mortar Yiddish theater museum in New York today? There’s an idea for Gov. Hochul.
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The combination of confusion, frustration, fear, despair, and rage that has tormented Jacobson in the days and months after October 7 (he told an interviewer that the aftermath of the massacre turned him half mad, that he could not sleep and found himself shouting at the television, the radio, and the newspapers) has brought out the best in him. Howl combines his novelistic and essayistic gifts in a bitterly funny, savagely perceptive satire, overflowing with diamond-sharp epigrams.
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"Once you conclude that your fellow citizens are complicit in a genocide, anything is possible."
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Israelis tend to be security-minded, and those seeking security know that they cannot get it by letting Palestinian negotiators endlessly drag them along a process with no end point.
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LISTEN: It’s election day and we are joined by our friend @ChrisStirewalt to discuss the seemingly impending blue wave and all the ways in which Trump contributed to the expected loss of the senate, whether the polls might be historically wrong, Haley Stevens’ statement on her endorsement of Mike Rogers, Ross Douthat’s excellent interviewing skills, and a look ahead to the potential democratic nominee in 2028.
Plus, Trump’s statement on an agreement to end military aid to Israel and how it might undercut candidates who ran on ending it legislatively, and the crew recommends Michael Powell’s @TheAtlantic article on Adam Hamawy.
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Haley Stevens offered "a beautiful real-world illustration of Midge Decter’s wonderful insight: 'There comes a time when you need to join the side you’re on.' Realizing that she was already on the side of decency, Stevens felt morally obliged to 'join' that side."--From today's newsletter
