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Death is different James D. Zirin, Opinion Contributor © Getty Images Death is different Of the 193 United Nations countries, 106 of them have completely abolished capital punishment, while 56 have retained it. One of the 56 is the United States. Until this past summer, the federal government had not held an execution in 17 years. In July, however, the Trump administration initiated a slate of executions, wedging 10 deaths into the latter half of the final year of President Trump's term, with three executions taking place after Election Day. On December 11, the Justice Depa...

One way to celebrate the 80th birthday on Dec. 24 of Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, would be to re-examine his complex friendship with the American Jewish author and AIDS activist Larry Kramer. When Kramer died in May of this year at age 84, Fauci recounted in interviews that a quasi-bromance had developed between him and the anti-government firebrand, since they first met in the 1980s as adversaries over official AIDS policy. As Fauci explained on “PBS NewsHour” May 28, “It turned out I loved the guy, and I think he loved me ba...

288 pp. Interlink Press. $20 Daphna Levit’s new book, “Wrestling with Zionism: Jewish Voices of Dissent,” offers a concise introduction to 20 major Jewish critics of political Zionism since its inception in the 1890s. The book is a treasure trove of anti-Zionist zingers. On a deeper level, the presentation of these dissenters as an ensemble shows how difficult it has been, even for such independent-minded individuals, to entirely escape the gravitational pull of Zionism. Deeper yet, the book shows that, after more than a century, Zionism can’t be salvaged – the idea of a Jewish Stat...

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