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Bari Weiss: What It Means to Choose Freedom
Bari Weiss: What It Means to Choose Freedom
I was honored to deliver the State of World Jewry lecture at the 92Y. This is what I said.
By Bari Weiss
02.29.24 — U.S. Politics
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Bari Weiss: What It Means to Choose Freedom

This past Sunday, I gave a speech at the 92nd Street Y called “The State of World Jewry.” The address is a historic one. Over four decades, it has been delivered by the likes of Elie Wiesel, Abba Eban, Amos Oz, and more. 

But for a sense of the state of Jewish life in America these days, you need only to have walked by the building that night. You would’…

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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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