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The funeral service for Wesley LePatner is held at the Central Synagogue in Manhattan on July 31, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne/New York Daily News via Alamy)
Murder in New York—and jubilation online. A good doctor gets pushed out of Washington. Israel’s information war. An ancient pilgrimage. And much more.
By Bari Weiss
08.01.25 — Bari’s Picks of the Week
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Russiagate. Newly issued tariffs. A battle with the Federal Reserve. Misinformation warfare in the Middle East. This has been anything but a slow news week. We’ll get into all of it below.

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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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