He can’t “shut down the virus” as he claimed in the campaign. But at least he isn’t shutting down the economy or schools.

President Biden’s message yesterday was both important and worth paying attention to… at overloaded hospitals with COVID patients and their stretched-beyond-exhaustion staff, Uncle Sam will be deploying hundreds of ambulances and EMS crews to transport patients to hospitals with open beds…

The combination of a worn-out public, mixed messaging from health officials and stiff skepticism from large swathes of the country mean the president will struggle to break through.

He is not the one to tell Jewish people about their feelings about Israel. There are widespread, overwhelming positive feelings among the Jewish community for the Jewish state.

The bigger problem, however, is that some of what he said is actually, troublingly true. No, Jews do not exert magical clout over American cultural centers and seats of power… But Trump is on target in dissecting the hearts and minds of far too many American Jews.

We wouldn’t have this ceaseless discourse if Israel weren’t something of innate importance to us. We logically know this. Israel is our homeland. The sky is blue. But the mental gap lies not in the logical understanding of our innate connection to our origin, but the visceral one.

I know well all the arguments in favor of the two-state solution, and it’s because of that that I feel a right and even a moral obligation to question this stance when I see its growing helplessness in the face of the West Bank’s gloomy reality.

There is a fashion nowadays to mock supporters of the two-state solution and call it impossible. It suits both the hard right and the hard left.

Here is the reality: there is no alternative to the two-state solution unless you either support an apartheid state, or don’t care about having a Jewish majority state.

According to Mr. Boric, in recent decades the Chilean people have been exploited by—and elites have benefited from—neoliberal policies. Inequality, poverty and a lack of inclusion are part of the malaise that the radical left aims to eradicate. The facts, however, show a very different story.

The country carried out the election freely and transparently, after which the loser — right-wing populist José Antonio Kast — immediately conceded defeat and tweeted that Mr. Boric “is the elected President of Chile and deserves all our respect and constructive collaboration.”

High-quality education for all is not a utopia. Neither is a health care system based upon solidarity, with the privileged helping the less fortunate. This is a reality in many European countries and none of them are run by the far left.

The Matrix first hit screens in 1999, when Lilly says “the corporate world wasn’t ready” for an allegory – a story that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning – about transgender people.

But the director says the films have always been “meaningful” for trans people.

…saying the movies are “a trans allegory” as though it’s a cut-and-dried thing strikes me as reducing them, too. They were made by two trans women, and as such, those women surely infused elements of their lives and interests into the stories… But The Matrix didn’t so successfully penetrate the zeitgeist because it had a single, secret message.

…beyond its legacy in pop culture, The Matrix has long held a special place in the hearts of many trans people for the way it so perfectly encapsulates many essential facets of their identities.

While the physical book does plenty of justice to the life and career of Brooks, the audiobook adds a hilarious dimension to it. It clocks in at just over 15 hours, which may seem daunting, but it’s worth it. Comedians tend to have a bit of fun reading their own book in the recording studio. It’s that muscle memory kicking in when they’re handed a microphone.

Since there is no literature, no identifiable genre that one can point to as distinctly Yeshivish, the vernacular remains purely oral: abstract, fleeting, gone the moment the speaker has finished an utterance. Yeshivish cannot be considered established like standard English; rather, this mishmash of foreign tongues and scrambled grammar only constitutes the illegitimate language of a minority culture humored by a benevolent host country.

Baddiel’s book expresses the most difficult-to-articulate aspect of contemporary antisemitism: not the physical or even virtual attacks but the gaslighting that accompanies them, the blindingly absurd and absolutely pervasive premise that such attacks are actually a form of righteous, if perhaps misguided, “punching up”—and that antisemitism, as a baseless and horrific dehumanizing hatred, therefore does not exist.