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Hey everyone, Ellie here with some exciting news.

My next book, Untouchable, how powerful people get away with it, is now available for

pre-order. And if you pre-order, I will send out a free signed bookplate to all of you. So I can't wait

for you to read this. If you enjoy my weekly columns, you will love this book. We got our first

review in. It's outstanding. I'm thrilled that this is coming

out soon. And again, can't wait for you to see it. In the meantime, here is my weekly Friday note

to all of you in the cafe community. As always, love to hear your thoughts, questions, or comments.

Please send them to me at letters at cafe.com.

In my junior year in college, during a classroom discussion about press coverage of the then-approaching 1996 presidential election, a classmate made a casual, almost offhand comment along the lines of, well, Jewish people run the media.

This fellow student was a friend of mine, though not a close one.

We did student government together.

We'd say hi around campus. He was generally a mild, inoffensive presence. I probably wouldn't really remember him today, if not for this incident. I'm a little embarrassed to admit it now. But when he made that

comment in class, my reaction was, well, nothing. At the time, it seemed like a benign generalization that advanced whatever

larger point he was making. I had no idea if it was true or not, and I was probably halfway

checked out on the classroom conversation anyway. This was an early Friday class. Forgive me.

More importantly, I had no sense of the deep historical roots of the anti-Semitic sentiment behind his comment,

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