Jews as Far as Possible
Being part of Stefan Zweig’s “community of expulsion,” Jews cannot now turn their backs on the expelled.
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Roger Cohen joined The New York Times in 1990. He was a foreign correspondent for more than a decade before becoming acting foreign editor on Sept. 11, 2001, and foreign editor six months later.
Since 2004, he has written a column for The International New York Times, formerly known as The International Herald Tribune. In 2009 he was named a columnist of The New York Times. His columns appear every Tuesday and Friday.
Mr. Cohen has written “Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo,” an account of the wars of Yugoslavia’s destruction, and “Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis’ Final Gamble.” He has also co-written a biography of Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, “In the Eye of the Storm.” His family memoir, “The Girl From Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family,” is to be published in January 2015. Raised in South Africa and England, he is a naturalized American. Follow him on Twitter.
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Being part of Stefan Zweig’s “community of expulsion,” Jews cannot now turn their backs on the expelled.
Greater prosperity equals diminishing generosity. No one has responded to the refugee crisis better than the Greeks.
Hungary won't be quickly forgiven. To shut the door on fleeing Syrians is to revisit humanity's darkest hours.
Europe is done with greatness. Been there, tried that. But America can't live without it.
Syria is the question the Obama doctrine must answer if it is not to be reduced to the point of meaninglessness.
Europe, cursed by too much history, thy name is forgetfulness. A wave of refugees from war must spur Europe to new unity and openness.
A disaster has been averted now that the Iran nuclear deal is unstoppable. But the disaster of implacable Republican hostility persists.
Don't worry about the Middle East. Worry about China. The Middle East (unlike a large chunk of your portfolio) will still be around tomorrow.
Corbyn, Trump and Sanders, the authentic outsiders riding anger at politics as usual. It's a season of radical discontent.
Technology's thrill is no more than an ephemeral distraction from the unchanging puzzles of life in any age.
Netanyahu makes another unsubtle pitch for Congress to undermine Obama.
The jihadi temptation to escape into all-answering zealotry will not soon be curbed.
At this critical moment, it is essential to recall the road traveled since 1945. Germany's debt to Europe can never be repaid.
Europeans are hardwired to social protection, Americans to an individualism that rewards and ravages.
Piecemeal small-mindedness, in 28 national iterations, has been the name of the game.
A Jewish representative digs deep into the Iran deal and rightly concludes that it should be supported.
The British capital is rich. It is booming. And something is rotten.
Conflict is illuminated as the nameless murder victim of Camus's "The Stranger" becomes a human being in a new novel.
Conflict and loss and a broken-down VW Kombi. What a long, strange trip it’s been.
The nuclear deal increases the distance between Iran and a bomb and reduces its distance from the rest of the world.