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Bari Weiss: A Year of Revelations
Bari Weiss: A Year of Revelations
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We expected Hamas to try to kill Jews. We didn’t expect Americans to celebrate when they did.
By Bari Weiss
10.07.24 — The Front Page
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Bari Weiss: A Year of Revelations

Someone asked me the other day how I planned to commemorate October 7. I found myself speechless, befuddled by the question. 

How do you offer an elegy when the war is not yet over—and 101 hostages, those still alive and the bodies of the murdered, are not yet home? How do you remember a catastrophe when it is still unfolding? How do you mark a past even…

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Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.

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