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This Polarizing Liberal Zionist Group Is Growing. Can It Overcome Its Past?
Carly Pildis is a progressive activist and writer who frequently speaks out about anti-Semitism on the left as well as the depredations of the right. Every day, she says, she gets messages from American Jewish women who tell her they’re scared of expressing their support for Israel, or even their Jewish identities, in progressive spaces….
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Forum: What Happened When Students Protested at a Bard College Conference on Anti-Semitism and Racism
On Saturday night, The Forward published a column by our Opinion Editor, Batya Ungar-Sargon, about her experience at a conference on anti-Semitism and racism at Bard College. A panel Ungar-Sargon was moderating that featured Ruth Wisse, a controversial scholar and Holocaust survivor, was targeted for protest by the campus chapter of Students for Justice in…
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‘Then We Hear A Boom’ — Inside The German Synagogue During The Attack
It was during the Torah reading on Yom Kippur morning that Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz, a visitor to the little synagogue in Halle, Germany, noticed the security guard staring intensely at his video monitor and trying to get the attention of the community president, Max Privorozki. “And then we hear a boom, like a very loud…
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We Asked Rabbis About Their Holiday Sermons. Here’s What 65 of Them Planned to Say.
Anti-Semitism, Israel, immigration, climate change. But mostly: anti-Semitism. Aspiration, repentance, renovation, optimism, and, again, anti-Semitism. Diets, meditation, memory, anger, balance, meaning, love, waiting, faith, change — and anti-Semitism. After a year in which 12 Jews were killed in terror attacks on synagogues in Pittsburgh and Poway, Calif., a year the police recorded rising hate crimes…
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Three Ways You Can Keep Your Synagogue Safe During The High Holidays
The High Holidays are here. Synagogues will swell with their biggest crowds of the year on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. But in the wake of the Pittsburgh and Poway shootings in the past year, and amid a nation-wide uptick in anti-Semitic incidents, American Jewish communities are on edge. What role can you, as a…
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Holiday Checklist: Shofar, Apples, Honey, Gun. This Is Synagogue, Post-Pittsburgh.
As the High Holidays near, some religious Jews are considering an unusual question: Are swords like jewelry? In the time of the Talmud, one stream of rabbinic thought considered swords to be an adornment — and thus permissible to carry in a synagogue on the Sabbath and holidays. After a year in which a dozen…
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Ukraine’s Jewish President Is At The Center Of Trump’s Impeachment Inquiry
The saga of Volodymyr Zelensky — the Jewish comedian elected president of Ukraine — was already mind-boggling. Now it’s taken a turn for the surreal, as the 41-year-old has assumed a place not just as head of a country of 44 million people, but also at the center of a potentially historic American political scandal….
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Jewish School Rabbi Solicited Explicit Photos From Minors, FBI Says
An administrator at an elite Jewish school in the Bronx was arrested last weekend for producing child pornography, according to court documents filed by the FBI in New York. Rabbi Jonathan Skolnick, an associate principal at Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy’s middle school, is accused of pretending to be a young girl in email and text…
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Do American Jews Really Care About – Or Understand – Israel’s Elections?
On a typical evening after putting their daughter to bed, Dov Waxman and Stephanie Davidson will sit on the matching rocking chairs on their back porch and chat about what’s driving them nuts at work. One night last week Waxman, a professor of Israel studies at Northeastern University, was fretting over an op-ed he wants…
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New York’s New Hate Crimes Chief Is A Jewish Woman Who’s Fighting Bigotry— Online And IRL
The leader of New York City’s Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes said she faces “a huge challenge” in preventing offenses: the spread of hate online. “We’re in a whole new atmosphere where hate travels instantaneously and can be a motivating factor,” said Deborah Lauter, the office’s new executive director. For many American Jews,…
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Submit Your Questions About Next Week’s Israeli Elections
Jodi Rudoren, the Forward’s brand-new Editor-in-Chief, covered not one but two Israeli elections (2013 and 2015) during her tenure as Jerusalem bureau chief of The New York Times. Now, with Israelis heading to the polls next Tuesday for the second time in less than six months, Jodi is ready to answer your questions about Israeli…
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