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The Real Lessons Of Portnoy’s Complaint

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Bernard Avishai on comparing the Philip Roth classic with Jewish politicians' sexual misconduct.

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“Nearly half a century after the publication of Portnoy’s Complaint,” Jodi Kantor writes in Sunday’s New York Times, “politics is finally catching up with fiction, as libidinous, self-sabotaging politicians are causing grimaces among fellow Jews and retiring outdated cultural assumptions—that Jewish men make solid husbands and that sex scandals belong...

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