Dan Fleshler
By Dan Fleshler
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Opinion Does Education Fuel Anti-Semitism?
A new study on anti-Semitism, commissioned by the German Parliament, came to the distressing, widely publicized conclusion that 20% of Germans are “latent” anti-Semites. But buried deep in the report is an assertion that might be even more troubling: Holocaust education is inadvertently fueling German anti-Semitism, making it worse. The study concluded that “anti-Semitic stereotypes…
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Opinion Why Not Let Moderates Engage Far Left?
The mainstream machers of American Jewry correctly assert that some of the rhetorical excesses of Israel’s critics, particularly on the far left, can foster outright antisemitism. But when these organizational leaders and academics recently claimed that provocative denunciations of Israel’s occupation or calls for a binational state were beyond the pale, all they succeeded in…
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Opinion Discard the Outmoded Taboo Against ‘Evenhandedness’
In responding to recent Republican ads that linked Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean to masked terrorists, Jewish Democratic leaders justifiably criticized gutter politics and cited pro-Israel statements from Dean. But they also should have refuted the assumption implicit in those ads — namely, that those who advocate that the United States not “take sides”…
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Yiddish „מײַן זינגען אויף ייִדיש האָט גאָרנישט צו טאָן מיט נאָסטאַלגיע““My singing in Yiddish has nothing to do with nostalgia“
חוה אַלבערשטיין האָט לעצטנס אַרויסגעלאָזט איר אויטאָביאָגראַפֿיע, וווּ זי באַשרײַבט די ראָלע פֿון ייִדיש אין איר רעפּערטואַר און אין איר לעבן
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