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Abraham Riesman

Abraham Riesman is a staff writer at New York magazine. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, and Vice.

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ZEALOT?

The Manhattan Prep School Gangster Turned Israeli Rabbi

Rabbi Yehuda HaKohen is someone who brings hope to refugees from the liberal consensus, whether they’ve run to the right or to the left. He’s what appears when the center crumbles.

Abraham Riesman

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MOTION CARRIES

How DSA Went From Pro-Israel to Boycotting the ‘Ethnostate’

“We were the place to go on the left if you were a socialist and you were pro-Israel,” one former leader of the Democratic Socialists of America recalled. No longer.

Abraham Riesman

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