Welcome again to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday March 18th, 2019.

I am John Pudhor, it's the editor of commentary magazine the 70-odd year old

monthly of intellectual analysis, political, poverty, and cultural criticism from

a conservative perspective. We invite you to join us at commentarymagazine.com

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magazine in your mailbox 11 times a year. We have released online the contents of

our April issue which is one of the best we've ever produced cover story on

hate crime hoaxes and why they happen by Wilford Riley of Kentucky State

University and a remarkable piece by Rabbi Mayor Sullivan-Aczyk on this

magisterial translation of the Torah by Robert Alter and what's wrong with it.

We have three pieces three pieces on the Ilhan Omar controversy one by me one by

in Washington our senior writer Christine Rosen-Hikristeen-Hijun-Hijun-Hijun-Hijun and a piece by Matt

Contnetti-a farewell to the Washington commentary column from Sad farewell for us from Andy Ferguson

who is moving his gifts to the Atlantic and so this is the last of his

Washington commentary columns. Vivian Bergavitch-Former-Canadian ambassador to

the to Israel who has written a really funny and stunning piece on the

political disaster that the Trudeau government has wandered into. I'm now trying

to face Josh Moravitch on the Jewish voice for peace an organization that he says is not

Jewish and is not for peace and a beautiful reflection on his friend Stanley Don in the

director by the screenwriter Frederick Rayfield and other stuff it's really a great issue and I

commended heartily to you at commentarymagazine.com and if you read more than a couple of articles

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