Mira Sucharov
By Mira Sucharov
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Opinion Conflict over Mamdani is a reminder: We still can’t agree on the line between anti-Zionism and antisemitism
There are risks in conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism
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Opinion Campus protests defined the year since Oct. 7. Could they actually change U.S. policy?
The pro-Palestinian student camp captured the popular imagination. Making real change is a different matter
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Life Upper East Side Moms Facebook Group In Turmoil — Over Israel And The Palestinians
The topic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is stirring controversy in unusual quarters. A Facebook group of moms on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that is known for tense exchanges (along with stroller recommendations, nanny discussions and million-dollar apartment advertisements) is teetering on the edge of dissolution with the publication of a children’s book. And according to…
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Opinion Was a McGill student evicted from the school board for being Jewish?
Shocking reports recently emerged from McGill University, where a student named Noah Lew claimed he was voted off of the board of student government for being Jewish. “I was blocked from participating in student government because of my Jewish identity and my affiliations with Jewish organizations,” Lew wrote in an opinion piece for the Canadian…
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Life Hashtag Protests Against IDF Sexual Assault Case Inspire Backlash
With Brigadier General Ofek Buchris, an IDF officer convicted of multiple counts of sexual assault, set to receive a generous plea deal, many Israeli army veterans have taken to Facebook to protest. The most popular expression of protest entails individuals (men and women both) recounting minor infractions they engaged in while enlisted, such as unkempt…
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Opinion Ditch the Safety Pin and Don a Kippah To Make Your Jewishness More Visible Under Trump
In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, with the Southern Poverty Law Center reporting over 400 incidents of “hateful harassment and assault,” and Steve Bannon designated as chief strategist for the White House — how important is it to get our response to fear exactly right? Can we feel our way through various responses, even…
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Opinion Prepare To Have Your Peace Disturbed
To watch “Disturbing the Peace” is to be challenged. Does the new documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian group Combatants for Peace, present a false moral equivalency between Israelis and Palestinians? Or is the apparent symmetry better understood as a tool to enable the film to speak to a wide audience in order to provoke fundamental change?…
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Opinion My Problem With the Idea of a ‘Non-Zionist’ Synagogue
Rabbi Brant Rosen started Tzedek Chicago last year, a synagogue that bills itself as “non-Zionist” (and whose name means “justice”). Rosen’s recent Rosh Hashanah sermon, circulated in blog form, calls for a “Judaism beyond nationalism,” one “openly acknowledging that the creation of an ethnic Jewish nation state in historic Palestine resulted in an injustice against…
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