Historian David McCullough won a Pulitzer Prize for “Truman,” his biography of President Harry S. Truman. McCullough also won a second Pulitzer and two National Book Awards for his …
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By Rafael Medoff
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8/18/22
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The upcoming 75th anniversary of Operation Torch, the Allies’ liberation of North Africa, has triggered discussions about the …
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By Rafael Medoff
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10/25/17
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President Donald Trump’s recent remark about Henry Ford’s “good bloodlines” has aroused curiosity and controversy. Trump actually is not the first president to subscribe to …
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By Rafael Medoff
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5/27/20
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Leaders of major American Jewish organizations are applauding the Trump administration’s new global strategy doctrine, which rejects the notion that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the main …
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By Rafael Medoff, JNS
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12/28/17
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The government of Qatar reportedly has been pressuring Hamas — which it finances — to refrain from launching rockets into Israel during the World Cup soccer matches presently underway in …
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By Rafael Medoff
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12/14/22
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If you walk all the way to the eastern end of Manhattan’s 25th Street, you’ll come upon a small plaque explaining why the site was given the name “Bristol Basin” in June …
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By Rafael Medoff
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6/29/22
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Tbe Reform movement has started to retreat from its opposition to the Trump administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as capital.
Following President …
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By Rafael Medoff
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1/3/18
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In his hit Broadway play “Leopoldstadt,” Tom Stoppard chronicles a fictional family of self-described “Austrians of Jewish descent” as they are confronted by the rise of …
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By Rafael Medoff
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12/28/22
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The death of Charles E. McGee last week occasioned an outpouring of tributes to the Tuskegee Airmen, the all-black units of American military aviators of whom McGee was one of the last surviving …
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By Rafael Medoff
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1/26/22
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The controversial invitation to officials of several American Jewish organizations to visit the gulf kingdom of Qatar follows the historical pattern of dictators trying …
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By Rafael Medoff
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11/15/17
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