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Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, and Distinguished Fellow at NYU School of Law where he directs the Forum on Law, Culture & Society. He is the author, most recently, of "How Sweet It Is!"

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Back When Barack Obama Saw Israel Through the Eyes of a Dad

Thane Rosenbaum

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The Meaning of ‘By Any Means Necessary’

Thane Rosenbaum

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Jewish Hollywood’s Jewish Problem

Thane Rosenbaum

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Bibi’s Bind

Thane Rosenbaum

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ICC Kangaroo Court In Session

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The Year of Living Insanely Dangerously

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American Mediocrity

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‘Ocean’s Eleven’ may yet become ‘From the River to the Sea’

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Where Sesame and Arab Streets Meet

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Beware the Ides of March—REDUX

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Gaza: Where the Moral Math of Revenge has No Equal

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Indictment Meltdown

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‘Oppenheimer’ and the Lesson of Brainy Jews

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With Trump, ALL Bets are Off

Thane Rosenbaum

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Documents, Balloons, and Laptops–OH MY!

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A Hitler Makeover

Thane Rosenbaum

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Et tu, Brooklyn?

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Rushdie and the Satanic Clerics

Thane Rosenbaum

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The Rotting Big Apple

Thane Rosenbaum

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Distortions and Israel’s Dilemma

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Bedlam and Blood Libels

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In Defense of Straight Talk

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Gene Wilder as Avram Belinski, a Polish rabbi who is traveling to San Francisco, and Harrison Ford as a bank robber who befriends him, in the 1979 movie The Frisco Kid.

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Jewish Westerns and Peddler Power

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A Whimper, Followed by a Whitewash

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Coughing and Limping Into 2022

Thane Rosenbaum

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The Dangerous Banality of Outrage

Thane Rosenbaum

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Kyle Rittenhouse and the Ticking Racial Clock

Thane Rosenbaum

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Dear Jewish Dems, Time to Ditch the Hard Left

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Life Chronicles

Life Chronicles

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Dog Days of Fake News and Misinformation

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Iran

Israel Targets Iran’s Nuclear and Ballistic Infrastructure, Airstrike Waves Continue

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IDF & Security

Israel Strikes Iran

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Iran

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IDF & Security

Israel Strikes Iran

Jerusalem

Argentina Javier Milei Visits Jerusalem’s City of David

An IAF BOEING 707 fueling three F-15 aircraft in flight, facilitating long-range missions, such as those being planned against Iranian nuclear sites.

Government

US Pulls Non-Essential Mideast Embassy Staff as Israel Prepares for War with Iran

Boycott / BDS

Smotrich Strikes Back: Ends Bank Protections for Transfers to Palestinian Authority

The Knesset

House Speaker Mike Johnson Soon to Address Knesset

News Briefs

News Briefs

PA Arabs with IDF Uniforms Arrested at Tel Aviv Light-Rail Station

Israel At War: Iron Swords

IDF Intercepts Houthi Missile Attack as Shavuot Ends with a ‘Boom’

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Stunning Roman Sarcophagus Depicting Dionysus and Hercules Unearthed in Caesarea

Eye on "Palestine"

Shkoyach: Financial Times Editorial Accuses Israel of Undermining Future Palestinian State

Antisemitism

Huge Pro-Israel Summit in Texas Canceled Due to Security Threats

Police and Crime

ICE Detains Family of Colorado Firebomber Mohamed Soliman

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