Quotes from Bari Weiss

Who wants to live in a world where you can only stay in the lane of your birth?

There's no question that I am biased toward the Hebrew calendar over the Gregorian one.

Our culture hasn't stopped objectifying women. We - men and women both - are just getting better at pretending it's not happening.

I no longer believe that I'm going to be struck down by a punishing God.

Those who call themselves anti-Zionists usually insist they are not anti-Semites. But I struggle to see what else to call an ideology that seeks to eradicate only one state in the world - the one that happens to be the Jewish one - while empathetically insisting on the rights of self-determination for every other minority.

Tel Aviv was established in 1909 by a group of secular Jewish families; Judaism's origin story is about 2,000 years older.

One of the casualties of Israel becoming an increasingly partisan issue has been American Jews themselves, who vote overwhelmingly Democratic and who see Israel's rightward turn as betraying fundamental liberal values.

I'd venture a bet that no American hates 'Prairie Home Companion' more than I do.

We are living in an age when anti-Semitism is on the rise here at home.

Anti-Semitism has been a fact of European life for more than 2,000 years.

We need a feminist movement that is robust enough to survive women who have preyed on others without trying to justify their behavior or maligning their victims.

'Believe women' only works as a rule of thumb when all women are good. That myth falls flat outside Victorian England.

In the States, time with friends can feel a bit like those PETA videos of chickens on factory farms: slotted and squeezed into tight compartments.

Eminem isn't the first entertainer to part ways with his conservative fans.

I hate New Year's Eve.

Anti-Semitism is the hatred that never dies. Violence that begins with the Jews never ends with them. All of this is true. What's also true is that anti-Semitism is the oldest hatred in the world because individual people have sustained it in every generation. It cannot be defeated until we look these people and their ideologies in the face.

Conservatives are often fond of La Rochefoucauld's famous aphorism that 'Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue,' and so tend to downplay hypocrisy as a sin. But in the marketplace of ideas they champion, hypocrisy may yet turn out to be the deadliest - or costliest - of sins.

Race walking is hard. Trying to do it while maintaining a conversation is much harder.

The Women's March moved me.