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  An app that warns of ICE raids — inspired by the memory of the Holocaust

  'In Germany it did not start with the Jews,' said Joshua Aarons

  By Rob Eshman

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  A quiet IRS policy change could pose a massive threat to the rabbinate

  There's a reason that synagogues are supposed to be apolitical spaces

  By Sruli Fruchter Jul 9, 2025 | 3 min read
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  Have we become the ‘ordinary Germans’ now?

  How can American Jews stand by while thousands of innocent people are illegally arrested, imprisoned and tortured?

  By Jay Michaelson Jul 9, 2025 | 4 min read

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• Jodi Rudoren This is my last column as editor of the Forward

  

• Jay Michaelson Have we become the ‘ordinary Germans’ now?

  

• Rob Eshman An app that warns of ICE raids — inspired by the memory of the Holocaust

  

• Nora Berman Did Netanyahu coerce Trump into attacking Iran? No — but he tried with Obama

  

• Dan Perry The dark reality masked by the garish Trump-Netanyahu lovefest

  

• Emily Tamkin Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves it: The ‘gotcha’ mode of fighting antisemitism has to go

  

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  The dark reality masked by the garish Trump-Netanyahu lovefest

  Hostages are starving. So are Palestinian civilians. But at least the president has, theoretically, been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

  By Dan Perry Jul 8, 2025 | 4 min read
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  As Netanyahu visits D.C., it's time to address starvation and aid-related violence in Gaza

  By Larry Garber Jul 7, 2025 | 4 min read
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  Right-wing insurrectionists tried to topple the German government in 1920 — it’s happening again in Trump’s America

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  By Terrence Petty Jul 5, 2025 | 4 min read
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  Want to understand what’s wrong with the ‘pro-Palestine’ movement? This Palestinian can help.

  One Gazan took on 20 of his self-appointed saviors. The results will depress you.

  By Rob Eshman Jul 3, 2025 | 3 min read
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  The Mamdani-Lander alliance has a lesson to teach Israel. It’s not what you think

  Productive political partnership doesn't mean needing to agree on every last issue

  By Libby Lenkinski Jul 3, 2025 | 4 min read
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  A Trumpian farce to make the ghosts of Jefferson, Madison and Vichy France’s victims weep

  The resignation of the president of the University of Virginia is a national tragedy

  By Robert Zaretsky Jul 3, 2025 | 5 min read
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  Dr. Ruth taught me everything I know — because she was my mom

  As we approach her first yahrtzeit, I’m remembering all my mom had to educate me about — including the importance of family, the perils of loneliness, and relationships

  By Joel Westheimer Jul 1, 2025 | 5 min read
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  How my Jewish great-grandfather paved the way for Zohran Mamdani — and Donald Trump

  The language being used to attack Mamdani sounds a whole lot like what my great-grandfather experienced in the 1930s

  By Stefanie Iris Weiss Jul 1, 2025 | 4 min read