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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Friday, January 15th, 2021. I'm John Podport. It's the editor of Commentary.

With me as always, Executive Editor, A Greenwald Hi-Aid.

John. Senior writer, Christine Rose, and high Christine.

Hi John.

And Associate Editor Noah Rothman. Hi Noah.

Hi John.

So we just closed our February issue.

Articles will be up presently with a blockbuster lead article by Brett Stevens called Memo to President Biden.

Please don't mess up the Abraham Accords, which goes into the history of American...

efforts to pacify the cold and often hot war between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

And how everything has changed and the ways in which the behavior of the Biden administration could both either help with the further implementation of the Accords or completely screw it up.

And so that is the subject of the piece, interestingly enough, another piece in the same issue.

Kind of a remarkable story by Ruth Weiss, a long time contributor, former retired professor of Yiddish Literature at Harvard called a tale of five Blinkins.

The Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, is the great grandson of a notable Yiddish writer of the late 19th, early 20th centuries.

And Ruth goes into the story of the journey of this notable family from this Yiddish writer to having a sign who becomes secretary of state.

And what this journey means in both in the American context and the Jewish context.

It's sort of thing that only she could write and it's pretty striking.

We'll have a lot of other stuff to roll to tell you about rolling out over the course of the next week.

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