Anthology of Funeral Blues: How-to for Modern Mourners
Remembrances and Celebrations: A Book of Eulogies, Elegies, Letters, and Epitaphs , edited by Jill Werman Harris. Pantheon, 308 pages, $25. When my mother passed away last month, quite suddenly, of a...
View ArticleBellicose Israeli General Causes Identity Crisis Here
What kind of an addiction is Israel, anyway? It generates more coverage, per capita and per square foot, than any story in the history of the world. For an American Jew, this is gratifying but also...
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Bellicose Israeli General Causes Identity Crisis Here
What kind of an addiction is Israel, anyway? It generates more coverage, per capita and per square foot, than any story in the history of the world. For an American Jew, this is gratifying but also...
View ArticleBang-Bang, You’re Rightwing! The Role of Assassination in Israeli History
Earlier this summer, I read Bill Clinton's startling insight on the assasination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 2005, passed along by the great columnist MJ Rosenberg: In 1997, President...
View ArticleIsrael Is In Crisis. Or, How Violence Shapes Identity in the Middle East
Last night in a conference room at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, 20 students gathered to hear a young Palestinian woman and a former Israeli soldier, sitting side by side under...
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Wistful Bill Clinton Remembers Good Friday, Avoids the Campaign
A reflective and sometimes wistful-sounding Bill Clinton largely steered clear of campaign issues last night at a Manhattan event honoring him for his contribution to the Irish peace process. Though he...
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We Have Been Through a Lot
(Photo: Getty Images) I have been through a lot since 1993. I was one of three of the closest survivors of the attack on the WTC and testified in the 1995 Criminal Trial of Ramzi Yousef. As a Special...
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