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Who Speaks for the Jews?

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels
February 11, 2015
Foreign Affairs
Middle East

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Here is a vigorous rejoinder from the Jewish Daily Forward to PM Netanyahu’s claim to speak for Jews everywhere. Well argued too.

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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