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You say matzah — and matzo and matzuh and matzee and more
Readers respond to our editor-in-chief’s column about a Passover copy-editing conundrum
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The Case for Gary Johnson
I’ve always been a fan of the underdog. Maybe it’s the sports fan in me. Hearing the stories of David slaying Goliath from Buster Douglas’s upset over Mike Tyson, to the 1969 Amazin’ Mets, or closer to my heart, the 2011 upset of the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals by the Dallas Mavericks help…
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Gold Gestapo Gun is Headed to Auction
Rock Island Auction Company is putting the gold-plated semiautomatic pistol of a notorious Nazi war criminal up for bid in September. A golden Nazi gun. It is estimated that Hermann Goering’s Walther PPK will sell for $250,000 to $400,000. But wait; there’s more: The Rock Island Auction is also sponsoring and a “Freedom Challenge” to…
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Dustin “The White Tiger” Fleischer’s Latest Birthright Adventures
Attention Israel, there is a White Tiger roaming the land! He has been spotted under the waterfalls of Ein Gedi, navigating through the underground tunnels of Gesher, whitewater rafting down the Jordan River, and floating on the Dead Sea. Stay tuned for more of my adventures on Birthright.
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Jewish Organizations: My Judaism is Not Zionism. Stop Representing it That Way.
Since it was created in 2012, I’ve participated in several Black Lives Matter organized protests, marches and rallies. On July 6, immediately after Philando Castile was shot, I became engulfed in the justice movement. I found myself surrounded by some of the most loving, thoughtful and motivated people I’ve ever met. I learned from and…
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Rekindling a Spanish Jewish Experience
On July 4, a group of about 375 people from the U.S. and Canada, including about 50 cantors, arrived in Barcelona on a historic Cantors Assembly Mission to Spain. This was the 3rd Mission of the Cantors Assembly, conceived and led by the indefatigable and visionary Nathan Lam of Stephen S. Wise Synagogue of Los…
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Wrestling the Ugly Shadows of Mass Violence as a Native American Jew
Mourning in America: ‘Indian Head’ This piece is the first in a series of reflections on mass violence from members of Sixth & I synagogue in Washington, DC. The word “surprised” has been thrown around quite often as of late. You’ve heard it in conversations about race and the miserable violence that’s colored red this…
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When the World Broke Our Promise of ‘Never Again’
Never again. My husband and I heard these words, playing through tinny headphones in heavily accented English. We must remember so it never happens again. Remember, not simply through thought, but through visits to museums, to sites of murder, to dark buildings lined with photographs of skeletal bodies. Remember, not in the typical sense: not…
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Dustin “The White Tiger” Fleischer’s First Two Days on Birthright
Undefeated pro-boxer Dustin “The White Tiger” Fleischer is in Israel with Birthright and sharing his experiences with the Forward. DAY 1 On our first day of Birthright, we visited Jaffa, the ancient port city of Tel Aviv, Nahalat Binyamin Market and Rothschild Boulevard. As someone who is interested in the history of our nation, Rothschild…
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Our Radical Weapon Against the Israeli Occupation: Kindness
In July, I travelled to the South Hebron Hills for the Center for Jewish Nonviolence’s campaign, “Occupation is not Our Judaism.” The campaign, an expression of solidarity with Palestinian and Israeli activists working to resist the occupation of the Palestinian territory beyond the Green Line, called on Jews of different backgrounds, denominations, and affiliations to…
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Imagining New Jewish Rituals on Tisha B’av
Nuovi Rituali Fun Goles (New Rituals in Exile) began shortly after I returned from a semester studying architecture in Rome in 2014. Upon returning home, I realized that I had left one of the most vibrant cities of the Jewish Diaspora without considering the Roman Jewish community or my identity relative to it. Later that…
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Two Reasons Trump Deserves the Jewish Vote
This piece was written by Jews Choose Trump members Carol Greenwald, Richard Allen, Eve Stieglitz and Louis Sokol. Greenwald is the president of Potomac Investment Co., a financial advisory firm. Allen is the founder of JCCWatch.org. Stieglitz is the Jewish advisor for women on the National Diversity Coalition for Trump. Sokol is an Internet marketing…
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