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How To Laugh at Death, By Art BuchwaldArt Buchwald is living and dying in a Washington, D.C., hospice. If you don’t know his story, you could be forgiven for thinking this is a very sad time for the 80-year-old Jewish columnist.Just the opposite, Buchwald says. “I am,” he announces, “having the time of my life.” His family and friends, along with the political and artistic…Read more

Five Jews and a JooPicture this: A London cafe, February 28, 2001, me with a cappuccino and the International Herald Tribune. I turn to the editorial page, read a column by Richard Cohen of the Washington Post. I scan the rest and instantly realize that Jews wrote five of the six columns: Cohen, Stephen Rosenfeld, Robert Kaplan, Ellen Goodman and Thomas Friedman.The…Read more