A professor at the University of Houston, Robert Zaretsky is also a culture columnist at the Forward.
Robert Zaretsky
By Robert Zaretsky
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Culture Meet the new antisemitism, same as the old antisemitism
For linguist Shalom Lappin, author of 'The New Antisemitism,' the current crisis for Jews is also a crisis for liberal democracy
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Culture Though cozy with antisemites, this movie star confronted his country’s complicity in the Holocaust
A supremely contradictory figure, Alain Delon, who died at 88, was rightly called a 'sacred monster'
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Opinion Why Florida’s charge to scrutinize university syllabi for ‘antisemitism or anti-Israel bias’ is a joke
You could say the effort smacks of Orwell — if anyone in charge actually knew who Orwell was
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Opinion Israel’s use of torture is a travesty — just like it was for the French in Algeria 70 years ago
History repeated itself in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. With Israel's treatment of prisoners, it's repeating itself again.
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Culture How a legendary Jewish sociologist’s faith in reason is what we need in this dangerous, fist-pumping time
The son of.a French rabbi, Émile Durkheim understood the dangers of succumbing to our basest instincts
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Culture A hurricane named Beryl, an agonizing plight straight out of the Book of Job
In Houston, residents without power find themselves in a drama of biblical proportions
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Opinion For Jews fearing the worst in France, a brief sigh of relief before facing the next fears
The party of Marine Le Pen suffered a surprising defeat, but vexing questions remain
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Opinion An unprecedented victory for a historically antisemitic right-wing party in France, and now the world holds its breath
In the land of existentialism, Emmanuel Macron has proved unequal to the existential crisis he created
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