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Benjamin Balint

Benjamin Balint, a writer living in Jerusalem, is the author ofRunning Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left Into the Neoconservative Right.

  • Eva Hoffe at Brod's graveside
    Eva Hoffe at Brod's graveside
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    The Trial of Kafka’s Last Heiress

    Kafka wanted his papers burned but they wound up in the hands of Eva Hoffe, placing her in the middle of an international legal battle.

    byBenjamin Balint
  • Ted Solotaroff, Norman Podhoretz, and Marion Magid at the Commentary offices, early 1960s.(Gert Berliner)
    Ted Solotaroff, Norman Podhoretz, and Marion Magid at the Commentary offices, early 1960s.(Gert Berliner)
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    Imaginative Assault

    An excerpt from a new history of Commentary shows how the fiction published in the magazine’s early years shook not just the world of Jewish literature but the very foundations of American letters

    byBenjamin Balint
  • The Samaritan Passover on Mt. Gerizim. At Abraham's altar, approximately 1900 to 1920
    The Samaritan Passover on Mt. Gerizim. At Abraham's altar, approximately 1900 to 1920
    Israel & The Middle East section icon
    Good Samaritans

    Israel’s smallest religious minority offers Jews a glimpse of what might have been

    byBenjamin Balint
  • A TV broadcast of Netanyahu's speech, as reflected in a Jerusalem restaurant window.(AFP/Getty Images)
    A TV broadcast of Netanyahu's speech, as reflected in a Jerusalem restaurant window.(AFP/Getty Images)
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    Obliging Obama

    What Netanyahu said yesterday, and to whom he was saying it

    byBenjamin Balint
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