Joel Rubin is the vice mayor of Chevy Chase, Maryland. He was also the executive director of the American Jewish Congress, the Jewish outreach director for the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign, and a deputy assistant secretary of state under the Obama Administration.
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By Joel Rubin
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Opinion Local governments are losing the fight against antisemitism. Here’s how to win
Twice in the past five years, neo-Nazis and KKK members have come here to spew their hatred in my town, writes a local Jewish politician
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Opinion The AIPAC attack on Andy Levin is an attack on the future of peace in Israel
Andy Levin vocally supports a two-state solution. For AIPAC, this makes him ‘insufficiently pro-Israel’
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Opinion Congress Shouldn’t Take the Anti-BDS Bill Bait
A major bill affecting American civil liberties and U.S. foreign policy towards Israel is being debated behind the scenes in Congress and may be attached in the dark of night to the end of year Omnibus spending package. This bill – S. 720, the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (IABA) – is fundamentally flawed at its core…
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Opinion Pittsburgh’s Jewish Pride Tested In This Moment Of Crisis
Pittsburgh’s Jews are a proud people. Squirrel Hill is the center of our physical and spiritual world. We are the living, breathing example of what it means to be an American Jew today: integrated Americans exhibiting outward Jewish pride. So when a domestic terrorist shot up my parent’s synagogue, he did so knowing full well…
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Community Trump Was Right To Fire Tillerson — But He Did It For All The Wrong Reasons
Rex Tillerson barely made it past a year before he was summarily fired by President Trump. It was more of a beheading than an actual firing, a public humiliation to which hardly any Secretary of State has ever been treated. And no one at the State Department is shedding a tear. Why? Because he was…
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Opinion March of the Living Taught Jared Kushner and Me Different Lessons
Nearly 25 years ago I traveled to Poland to participate in the March of the Living, to “study the history of the Holocaust and to examine the roots of prejudice, intolerance and hate,” as the program’s website explains. Our group visited Nazi death camps and Jewish ghost towns, seeking to gain a better understanding of…
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Opinion John Kerry Brings Passion to State Department
America’s policy toward Israel and the Middle East was front and center in the political debate this election year, from Iran’s nuclear program to Israeli-Arab peacemaking to America’s response to the Arab Spring. And American Jews decided resoundingly — by a 70%–30% margin — that Barack Obama was the right man for the job of…
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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