…the question “What about her emails?” is an appropriate one. Mocking it is no answer. Neither is the cliché “two wrongs do not make a right.” A second wrong doesn’t justify or excuse the first, but unequal treatment of two comparable wrongs should raise concerns about fairness and equality.

According to what’s publicly known, Clinton and her representatives cooperated with the investigation and investigators. Therefore, there was no need for the issuance of a subpoena or for executing a search warrant.

If Trump went beyond Clinton in his effort to conceal and cover up his misdeeds, including defying a subpoena and falsely asserting he’d turned over all the classified information in his possession, then he may face criminal consequences for obstruction even if his initial misconduct wasn’t materially different from Clinton’s.

There is a reasonable basis to believe that what we have here is not another retired general babbling boilerplate about strength, healing and unity, but rather a person who gets to the core. Despite the tendency to consider him a political naif, Eisenkot has proved that he can get along with the most cunning foxes in the vineyard…

“They used to step in and win right away, but this hasn’t happened since 1999 [when Ehud Barak became prime minister]. They are still, however, highly regarded by large portions of Israeli society. Especially by those who see military service as a core value, and don’t have higher authorities, like the Orthodox, for example,” he added.

The addition immediately added two seats in polls taken by both KAN and Channel 12… A Channel 14 poll, however, had the Netanyahu bloc receiving 61 seats, even with the addition of Eisenkot.

…the clear takeaway now as Rushdie struggles for his life is that an Islamic death sentence must be taken seriously and not dismissed as hyperbole. Moreover, Islamists should not be regarded as oppressed people who require safe spaces. Woke welfare should be directed elsewhere.

V. S. Naipaul called Khomeini’s fatwa “a most extreme form of literary criticism”—a macabre joke that seemed at the time to come at Rushdie’s expense. Today it sounds just as macabre but hits a worthier target: those who muddle the distinction between offense and violence…

The attack on Rushdie is a wake-up call for all of us who have a stake in free expression, which is all of us, period… The shocking attack on Rushdie comes at a time of intensifying and protean attacks on free expression worldwide.

Everything about the upsurge of anti-Jewish politics in the United States troubles me: the role of universities, media, and cultural elites in abetting anti-Zionism, the successor and incorporator of anti-Semitism; the organization of grievance brigades against the allegedly privileged Jews; the ease with which the Arab and Islamist war against the Jewish people has found a home on the left…

As the grandson of Holocaust survivors, I was raised on the imperative of “Never Again” – the vow that Jews will never again allow ourselves, or anyone else, to endure the genocidal violence our people faced. It’s a vow to stand up against hatred and bigotry in all its forms.

But in the past year-and-a-half since January 6, it sometimes has felt as if we are in the early days of a terrible morass…

Antisemitism, as experienced by our samples, is seen as primarily based on verbal or offensive language or threats and very little on physical violence against Jews. Moreover, the subjective intensity of antisemitism in the daily lives of Jewish Americans may be less than it appears to be based on media reports…

It’s concerning, especially when a health official in New York state has warned that there could be hundreds of undiagnosed polio cases, highlighting the importance of building trust around vaccinations.

The majority of adults in the US are vaccinated against polio, thanks in large part to the fact that most schools have polio vaccine mandates. But the virus can still find places to spread.

These latest polio incidents are not one-off events. Immunization coverage is dropping worldwide, and the immunity wall generations past have built is slowly being chipped away. The vaccine distrust that unwarrantedly grew out of the Covid-19 pandemic is only driving more people to opt out of vaccinations or under vaccinate themselves and their children.

Netflix’s adaptation of the film, written by Robert Horn—who co-wrote the original musical with Brown and Dan Elish—sanitizes the entire experience… Maybe we need to let teenagers be messy so that growing out of that mess means more.

Many bar and bat mitzvah scenes in TV and film skip over the actual Hebrew part of the service, let alone the reading of the haftorah — the weekly portion. But in “13: The Musical,” Evan beautifully sings a line from Isaiah in Hebrew in a way that feels so reverential and beautiful, and it, along with the movie’s final song, really brings it all home.

…once the film checks off the expected city versus country gripes about bagels (none), cows (too many) and the unnerving rural silence (“How can anyone sleep with all this quiet!”), the director Tamra Davis aims to sell the film’s young audience on an inclusive vision of America that quickly soothes any apprehensions of antisemitism, as well as most of the other anxieties of adolescence.