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Bari’s Picks of the Week: May Their Memories Be a Blessing
Bari’s Picks of the Week: May Their Memories Be a Blessing
FBI agents work at the crime scene where two Israeli Embassy staff members were killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on May 21, 2025. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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By Bari Weiss
05.23.25 — Bari's Picks of the Week
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Bari’s Picks of the Week: May Their Memories Be a Blessing

It’s been a heavy week. Anyone who cares about the health of this country will be alarmed by the murder—and the increasing popularity of the anti-American, anti-civilizational worldview of their alleged killer.

They were both Israeli Embassy staffers—one a Christian man from Jerusalem, the other a Jewish woman from Kansas—who were about to get engaged. I…

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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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