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Aug. 23
Getting It Right in AfghanistanRaed Salah’s Terror Empire and the Recent Violence in JerusalemIn Belgium, Legalized Euthanasia Has Begun to Encroach on Religious FreedomCuba’s Jewish History, from Columbus to the PresentHow Jerry Lewis’s Comedy Captures the American Jewish Experience
Aug. 22
A New Book Tries, and Fails, to Understand the West Bank’s JewsTerror Will Continue until Muslims Reject the Idea of the CaliphateThe Fire That Erased Much of Salonica’s Jewish CharacterHow Mahmoud Abbas Emerged Victorious from the Temple Mount CrisisEgypt Seizes a Collection of Odd Jewish Artifacts
Aug. 21
The Spanish Roots of Europe’s Wave of TerrorHamas and Iran Make Amends
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Today’s homegrown Nazi threat, seen in Charlottesville last weekend, is grossly incommensurate with yesterday’s Nazi threat—which relieves no one of the duty to respond. But how?

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