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Words of the Week: Noah Efron

by Erika Dreifus on
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“For all that the Lod attack seems like many lifetimes ago—an epoch when bags filled with guns and grenades could slide down onto the luggage carousel in Israel’s airport, and when wives of ambassadors wept with remorse over the actions of their countrymen, and kings of Jordan and prime ministers of Israel had code names: a different epoch, a different world—at the same time, it was still just yesterday; its imprint has not fully faded. And it came to me—watching Avraham Katzir tell of watching his father killed in front of him and his mother, only shattered glass dividing them—that nothing about today can be understood without somehow taking all of this into account.“

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Words of the Week: Natalie L. Kahn et al.

by Erika Dreifus on
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On April 29, the Editorial Board of the Harvard Crimson published an editorial endorsing the B*D*S movement (I try not to spell out the term too often—a small effort to minimize some of the backlash such mentions can provoke, ranging from the merely negative to the obscene and threatening).

The subject is so toxic, and the anti-Israelism so virulent, that it takes true bravery to respond. But this editorial was so wrong-headed, in so many ways, that it demanded responses.

Here are some of the best I’ve encountered:

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Words of the Week: Giveaway Edition

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Update, May 19: Thanks to all who entered this giveaway! The Random Number Generator has awarded the giveaway subscription to Michele J. Clark. (Michele, I’ll be in touch shortly to confirm your address.)

Normally, “Words of the Week” posts here on My Machberet share snippets from online discoveries that I’ve found to be particularly powerful. Often, these Jewishly-focused items are also Israel-focused.

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