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When Kendrick Lamar blasts Mr. Trump, he is preaching to the choir. When Eminem does it, there's a good chance Trump voters are actually listening. Bari Weiss

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At the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a hawkish, nonpartisan research group, at least two people left over the way the think tank responded to Mr. Trump's election. Bari Weiss

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In Israel, there is no civil marriage. All elements of religious life - from the kosher certification of food to conversion to marriages and burials - are controlled by the rabbinate. In Israel, then, the official religion is not just Judaism. It's Orthodoxy. Bari Weiss

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One area where American Jews have something to teach Israel is religious pluralism, something that living in a democracy with a separation between church and state has helped us fine-tune. Bari Weiss

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Israel's highest aspiration may be to be a light among the nations, but it is also a normal nation, where regular people want to go about their business without a religious authority having a say. Bari Weiss

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We live in a world in which politically fascistic behavior, if not the actual philosophy, is unquestionably on the rise. Bari Weiss

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It's no rare thing for the Israeli prime minister to enrage the Jews of the diaspora. Bari Weiss

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I haven't watched Miss America since I was in middle school, and I was incredulous even then. Bari Weiss

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The Right has been damaged beyond belief by its embrace of Mr. Trump. Bari Weiss

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We are living in an age when anti-Semitism is on the rise here at home. Bari Weiss

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Paris. Toulouse. Malmo. Copenhagen. Brussels. Berlin. For most people, they are lovely cities where you might happily take a holiday. But for the world's Jews, they are something else, too. They are place names of hate. Bari Weiss

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While racists see themselves as proudly punching down, anti-Semites perceive themselves as punching up. Bari Weiss

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For reasons historic, aesthetic, and political, we Jews are most attuned to the anti-Semitism of the far Right - and we find the most sympathy among our progressive allies when these are our attackers. Bari Weiss

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I thought I would come to Australia and learn to surf. Instead, I learned to walk. Bari Weiss

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Many older people I know are focused on the past. When they talk about the future, they are, quite understandably, preoccupied with the hassles and obstacles of their increasing age. Bari Weiss

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Race walking is hard. Trying to do it while maintaining a conversation is much harder. Bari Weiss

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While there are perfectly legitimate criticisms that one can make of Israel or the actions of its government - and I have never been shy about making them - those criticisms cross the line into anti-Semitism when they ascribe evil, almost supernatural powers to Israel in a manner that replicates classic anti-Semitic slanders. Bari Weiss

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One of the casualties of Israel becoming an increasingly partisan issue has been American Jews themselves, who vote overwhelmingly Democratic and who see Israel's rightward turn as betraying fundamental liberal values. Bari Weiss

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