Quotes by Bari Weiss - Page 2

Part of the beauty of the way Australians hang out isn't just how relaxed it is, but the inclusive, rolling nature of how they socialize.
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Relaxed
Rolling
Australians
Inclusive
Socialize
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In the Trump era, the Left has smartly and justifiably seized a moral high ground that the Right has abandoned by its embrace of the president.
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Abandoned
Embrace
High Ground
Moral
Trump
Seized
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'Annie Hall' and 'The Graduate' are incredible films. Why should we be deprived of watching them because some of the men that made them are bad?
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Annie
Deprived
Graduate
Hall
The Graduate
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In the States, time with friends can feel a bit like those PETA videos of chickens on factory farms: slotted and squeezed into tight compartments.
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Chickens
Farms
Factory
Squeezed
Tight
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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.
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Blast
Choir
Good Chance
Preaching
Trump
Voters
Mr
Eminem
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Shutting down conservatives has become de rigueur. But now anti-free-speech activists are increasingly turning their ire on free-thinking progressives.
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Activists
Turning
Conservatives
Increasingly
Progressives
Shutting
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I haven't watched MTV's annual Video Music Awards since Bill Clinton was president. I was wearing a plastic choker, and Alanis Morissette won for 'Ironic.'
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Awards
Ironic
Mtv
Plastic
Annual
Bill Clinton
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Liberals shouldn't cede the responsibility to defend free speech on college campuses to conservatives. After all, without free speech, what's liberalism about?
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Free Speech
Liberalism
College Campuses
Conservatives
Defend
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Organized religion may be anathema on the political Left, but the need for the things religion provides - moral fervor, meaning, a sense of community - are not.
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Anathema
Fervor
Organized
Organized Religion
Provides
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The conspiracy theory of the Jew as the hypnotic conspirator, the duplicitous manipulator, the sinister puppeteer is one with ancient roots and a bloody history.
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Ancient
Bloody
Conspiracy
Hypnotic
Puppeteer
Roots
Sinister
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We need a feminist movement that is robust enough to survive women who have preyed on others without trying to justify their behavior or maligning their victims.
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Behavior
Justify
Movement
Robust
Survive
To Survive
Victims
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Australians have more fun. They just do. I guess I should not be surprised by this fact given that this is the place that birthed both Hugh Jackman and Kylie Minogue.
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Australians
Hugh
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I am a serial denier. I try not to be. I tell myself, 'You are going to die.' I repeat it. I grasp it for a second or two, but then it escapes me, and I'm back to before.
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Myself I Am Me
Myself Me I Am
Escapes
Grasp
Repeat
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In practice, intersectionality functions as kind of caste system, in which people are judged according to how much their particular caste has suffered throughout history.
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Judged
Particular
Practice
According
Caste
Suffered
Functions
How Much
System
Throughout
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Most women who go public with #MeToo stories are fearful for obvious reasons. There is the pain of reliving traumatic experiences. There is the rage of not being believed.
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Fearful
Obvious
Reliving
Traumatic
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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.
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Defense
Election
Research
Trump
Mr
Tank
Two People
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Women are hypocrites. Women are opportunists. Women are liars. They are abusers and bullies and manipulators. They are capable of cruelty, callousness, and evil. Just like men.
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Women
Men
Capable
Cruelty
Evil
Liars
Like
Just
Women Are
Bullies
Hypocrites
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I believe that the 'believe all women' vision of feminism unintentionally fetishizes women. Women are no longer human and flawed. They are Truth personified. They are above reproach.
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Feminism
Flawed
Reproach
Vision
Women Are
Above
All Women
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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.
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Hassle
Obstacles
Older People
Increasing
Preoccupied
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Ever since Eve gave Adam that forbidden fruit, demonizing and disbelieving women has been the planet-wide policy. You don't need to reach back to the Pleistocene to see the truth of that.
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Adam
Forbidden
Eve
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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.
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Church And State
Pluralism
Separation
Jews
One Area
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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.
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Aspiration
Authority
Regular People
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China may brutalize Buddhists in Tibet and Muslims in Xinjiang while denying basic rights to the rest of its 1.3 billion citizens, but 'woke' activists pushing intersectionality keep mum on all that.
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Basic Rights
Pushing
Tibet
Activists
Billion
Buddhists
Denying
Muslims
Woke
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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.
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Sympathy
Aesthetic
Allies
Anti Semitism
Historic
Progressive
Among
Attuned
Far Right
Jews
Reasons
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Since Britain handed over jurisdiction of its former colony to China 20 years ago, the city has operated under the notion of 'one country, two systems.' That increasingly appears to be an empty slogan.
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Colony
Empty
Former
Jurisdiction
Notion
Appears
Slogan
Handed
Increasingly
One Country
Operated
Systems
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The Heritage Foundation, by far the most influential think tank of the Trump era, is widely seen as a redoubt of Trumpism in large part because of the tremendous influence of the Mercers, who are major donors.
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Donors
Heritage
Influential
Tremendous
Large Part
Tank
Widely
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Australia's defamation laws help explain why the #MeToo movement, while managing to take down some of the most powerful men in the entertainment and media industry in the United States, has not taken off there.
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Defamation
Most Powerful
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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.
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Casualties
Betraying
Increasingly
Jews
Liberal
Partisan
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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.
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Berlin
Brussels
Copenhagen
Holiday
Lovely
Hate World People
Happily
Jews
Something Else
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Britain beat us to the abolition of slavery; the Isle of Man, New Zealand, and Finland all decided to give women the vote well before the United States. Eventually, we got smart and borrowed these egalitarian innovations.
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Abolition
Borrowed
Finland
Isle
New Zealand
Egalitarian
Innovations
Zealand
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I'm not someone who from a young age imagined myself being a writer or had dreams of being a novelist or anything like that, but I was always very driven by ideas and by values, and that is the reason I got into journalism.
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Driven
Young Age
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Just as every Jewish couple gets married under a canopy open on all four sides - a replica of the tent modeled for us by Abraham and Sarah - so must Jewish communities keep our tents open. This is the true source of our longevity and resilience.
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Abraham
Longevity
Married
Replica
Resilience
Sides
Jewish
Open
Communities
Gets
Modeled
Sarah
Tent
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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.
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Conversion
Elements
Judaism
Orthodoxy
Religious Life
Marriages
Official
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Despite the fact that the vast majority of Israeli Jews are not Orthodox, the ultra-Orthodox hold the keys not just to Israel's Jewish sacred places, but to the life cycle events - conversions, weddings, divorces, burials - of the country's more than six million Jews.
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Despite
Israeli
Orthodox
Sacred
Life Country More
Cycle
Divorces
Jews
Vast Majority
Weddings
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Most people, including many Jews, think of Yom Kippur as a 25-hour caffeine headache capped off by a lox-and-bagels binge. It's undeniably that. But it is also, at its deepest level, a dry run. It is the one day of the year when we Jews are asked to look our mortality in the face.
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Binge
Caffeine
Dry
Headache
Mortality
Deepest
Jews
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Conservatives are often fond of La Rochefoucauld's famous aphorism that 'Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue,' and so tend to downplay hypocrisy as a sin. But in the marketplace of ideas they champion, hypocrisy may yet turn out to be the deadliest - or costliest - of sins.
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Famous
Aphorism
Champion
Hypocrisy
Ideas
Marketplace
Sin
Tribute
Virtue
Conservatives
Deadliest
Downplay
Fond
La
Pays
Sins
Tend
Vice
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To many American Jews, it is a truism that Barack Obama was the anti-Israel president. It was Mr. Obama who signed the Iran deal, which Israel portrayed as a mortal danger. It was Mr. Obama whose most contentious relationship with a foreign leader was with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Relationship
Barack
Danger
Iran
Leader
President
Prime Minister
Truism
Obama
Barack Obama
Mr
Deal
Foreign
Jews
Minister
Mortal
Netanyahu
Portrayed
Signed
Whose
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Few of us doubt that stealing is wrong, especially from the poor. But the accusation of 'cultural appropriation' is overwhelmingly being used as an objection to syncretism - the mixing of different thoughts, religions, cultures, and ethnicities that often ends up creating entirely new ones.
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Accusation
Appropriation
Mixing
Stealing
Being Used
Cultures
Religions
Entirely
New Ones
Objection
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The best movie theater in the world is in a dingy basement on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The worn seats are painful. There are probably bigger screens in half the apartments in the complex above the theater. And forget Fandango; the theater barely has a website. You want to buy a ticket? Get in line.
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Movie
Bigger
Half
Manhattan
Movie Theater
Painful
Screens
Theater
Website
West
West Side
Worn
Above
Apartments
Barely
Basement
Side
Buy
Complex
Line
Ticket
Upper
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Donald Trump's election was a watershed moment. Even those like me, who had previously pulled levers for candidates of both parties, felt that Mr. Trump had not only violated all sense of common decency, but, alarmingly, that he seemed to have no idea that there even existed such an unspoken code of civility and dignity.
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Candidates
Civility
Code
Decency
Dignity
Election
No Idea
Trump
Unspoken
Both Parties
Mr
Donald
Existed
Parties
Pulled
Seemed
Violated
Watershed
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Those who call themselves anti-Zionists usually insist they are not anti-Semites. But I struggle to see what else to call an ideology that seeks to eradicate only one state in the world - the one that happens to be the Jewish one - while empathetically insisting on the rights of self-determination for every other minority.
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Happens
Ideology
Insisting
Rights
Self Determination
Struggle
Jewish
Eradicate
Insist
Minority
Seeks
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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.
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Anti Semitic
Classic
Ascribe
Criticisms
Manner
Perfectly
Powers
Supernatural
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The leaders of the Women's March, arguably the most prominent feminists in the country, have some chilling ideas and associations. Far from erecting the big tent so many had hoped for, the movement they lead has embraced decidedly illiberal causes and cultivated a radical tenor that seems determined to alienate all but the most woke.
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Causes
Determined
March
Movement
Prominent
Radical
Alienate
Arguably
Associations
Chilling
Cultivated
Decidedly
Embraced
Feminists
Lead
Hoped
Tenor
Woke
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Anti-Semitism is the hatred that never dies. Violence that begins with the Jews never ends with them. All of this is true. What's also true is that anti-Semitism is the oldest hatred in the world because individual people have sustained it in every generation. It cannot be defeated until we look these people and their ideologies in the face.
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Anti Semitism
Defeated
Dies
Ends
Hatred
Individual
Violence
World Look People
Face
Begins
Until
Generation
Face Look World
Ideologies
Jews
Oldest
Sustained
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