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Feb 4, 2016, 10:16 AM

Saul’s search for meaning

"Son of Saul," the debut feature of Hungarian writer-director László Nemes, is one of the most daring films of recent years. Not because of its subject -- we’re past the days when the Holocaust was considered outside the boundaries of...

Nov 20, 2015, 9:39 AM

Paris, America and refugees

Amid the cacophony of alarm bells and pontifications following the Paris massacre, let us pause to think about our own thinking. Horror has a way of stopping us in our tracks, as it should, and of revealing subtle habits...

Oct 4, 2015, 8:53 AM

The next speaker’s job on Israel

If John Boehner provoked Congress' extreme partisan divide over Israel, can his successor bridge it? Unlikely

Aug 27, 2015, 4:29 PM

Israel’s battle with itself

Not only is imprisonment without filing charges unlawful, it actually threatens Israel's security

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Eric Cortellessa is The Times of Israel's Washington correspondent, where he covers American politics and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. His writings have also appeared in The New Republic, The American Prospect, Newsweek, The Huffington Post and The Buffalo News.