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Doorstep Postings: The unbearable lightness of Justin Trudeau’s final Hanukkah as prime minister

This is a special year-end edition of Doorstep Postings, the periodic political commentary column written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. How do...

Josh Lieblein

What happened in the past 12 months? Rather a lot! So to pare it down, I’m limiting this end-of-year recap to things that kept popping up on my...

Perhaps the woman behind the book On Being Jewish Now is a bit like Philip Roth after all. It was a whole lot easier to be a post-parochialism Jew...

For the past two weeks, in the course of discussing the 75-author anthology book On Being Jewish Now—and anti-antisemitic outreach more...

Back in 1963, the late Philip Roth wrote an essay for Commentary entitled “Writing About Jews.” It’s a powerful manifesto about the purpose of...