Laura E. Adkins is the Forward’s Opinion Editor. Follow her on Twitter @Laura_E_Adkins or email adkins@forward.com.
Laura E. Adkins is the Forward’s Opinion Editor. Follow her on Twitter @Laura_E_Adkins or email adkins@forward.com.
Laura E. AdkinsOpinion Editor
By Laura E. Adkins
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Opinion The Buffalo shooter blamed his problems on the Jews. Tucker Carlson’s response will only make things worse
The tragic attack in Buffalo was bound to happen somewhere. The horrific mass shooting, which left 10 dead and three injured, followed a predictable pattern. A white American man who felt small was whipped into a violent rage by conspiracy-peddlers online and on TV. He wrote a rambling screed full of hate toward Jews and…
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Opinion AIPAC’s endorsements risk irreparably damaging the U.S.-Israel relationship
For pro-Israel Americans and the journalists who cover them, AIPAC Policy Conference was the annual see-and-be-seen event. More than 18,000 of us descended on Washington each March for three days of parties, panels, networking and a lobbying day on Capitol Hill. Top donors were treated to a blowout party with enough members of Congress to…
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News 26 miles West of Russia, Ukrainian Jews hunker down and wait
When Dovid Margolin spoke to the rebbetzin of Kharkov before Shabbat, he could hear heavy artillery fire in the background. While he didn’t notice any panic in her voice, she quickly moved to make sure her family had started heading to the synagogue basement. Kharkov, the second-largest city in Ukraine, is just 26 miles west…
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Fast Forward Israeli restaurant and cars near synagogue sprayed with antisemitic graffiti in NYC
This story was updated on Feb. 18. Miriam had been open for less than a month before someone sprayed it with antisemitic graffiti. On Thursday morning, the staff found “f— Jews” spray painted at least three times on the perimeter of the Upper West Side restaurant’s outdoor dining area. It was “sad to see,” said…
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Opinion China is committing genocide against the Uyghurs. American Jews must act now
In Xinjiang, not far from where Disney recently filmed the live-action Mulan in partnership with the Chinese Communist Party, millions of people live in what Amnesty International’s Secretary General called a “dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale.” Through constant surveillance, torture, sterilization, forced labor, “reeducation” and the destruction of thousands of mosques and holy sites,…
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Opinion How to lie with statistics, antisemitism edition
If 174,000 American Jews had been physically attacked in the past year, you’d think we’d all have heard about it. That’s roughly five times the number of Jews who were assaulted, had their businesses vandalized or were sent to concentration camps during Kristallnacht, the worst pogrom of the 20th century. Yet that’s the tsunami of…
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Opinion Our hate crime reporting system is broken
In the first hours of 2020, I called the NYPD to confirm that a Jewish 15 year-old had been held up at knifepoint on a public bus. “Wow. There’s a lot of this stuff happening. What the hell,” was the officer’s response. He confirmed the incident, and told me I had missed another: in South…
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Opinion Jewish wisdom can help Cuomo apologize for real
With virtually every party leader calling for his resignation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo had little choice but to step down. Yet it took Cuomo 89 seconds into his resignation speech on Tuesday to get to I’m-sorry-you’re-offended — which he followed with excuses, swipes at his accusers and denials of bad behavior. My colleague Mira Fox wrote…
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