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  • Jewish youth dancing the hora at Camp Wel-Met, 1948
    Jewish youth dancing the hora at Camp Wel-Met, 1948
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    Speaking Camp Hebrew

    Jewish summer camps offer kids a unique linguistic landscape

    byJenna Weissman Joselit
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    Norman Podhoretz’s Valentine to Himself

    How the ‘Commentary’ magazine editor came to write his influential memoir, now being reissued for its 50th anniversary

    byDaniel Oppenheimer
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    Bye-Bye, Neocons

    The Jewish conservatives and ‘nation builders’ who led us into Iraq and Afghanistan bet the farm against Donald Trump, and lost. What now?

    byDavid P. Goldman
  • (L) Hillary Clinton delivers remarks during the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 28, 2016. (R) Donald Trump during the CNN Republican presidential debate  in Las Vegas, Nevada, December 15, 2015.
    (L) Hillary Clinton delivers remarks during the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 28, 2016. (R) Donald Trump during the CNN Republican presidential debate  in Las Vegas, Nevada, December 15, 2015.
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    A Neoconservative, Generational Rift and a Tale of Two Worsts

    Former ‘Commentary’ editor Norman Podhoretz recently said he would ‘not bet [his] life on anything about Trump,’ but has even less regard for Clinton. His son, John, wants to convince him otherwise.

    byArmin Rosen
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    Is It Time to Take the Most-Published Man in Human History Seriously?

    A new biography of Jacob Neusner examines his ‘complicated, colorful, and unappreciated intellectual life’

    byShaul Magid
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    When Norman Podhoretz Spent the Night With Allen Ginsberg

    An excerpt from the new ‘Exit Right’ describes a tumultuous evening when the beatnik confronted the neocon

    byDaniel Oppenheimer
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