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The Forward's Top Stories of 2016
Abortion Rights
Read the Original Story This year saw the Supreme Court issue its most consequential abortion rights decision of the last quarter century. In Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt the court ruled that the restrictive plethora of laws and rules that some states were issuing to regulate abortion—purportedly to ensure the health and safety of women—were…
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The Forward's Top Stories of 2016 Black Lives Matter
Read Original Stories Here The national movement that has emerged from the killing of Michael Brown, a black teenager, by Ferguson, Missouri police in August 2014, has grown to become a force that no national politician can ignore. Many Jewish activists have rallied to this cause. But this year, the movement’s Jewish supporters faced an…
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The Forward's Top Stories of 2016 Israel’s Messianic Settler Movement
Read the Original Articles Here President-Elect Donald Trump’s appointment of David Friedman, a supporter of the radical right-wing settler movement in Israel, as his ambassador to the Jewish state has given a huge shot in the arm to exclusively Jewish settlements in the West Bank whose expansion up to now Washington has opposed as illegitimate…
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The Forward's Top Stories of 2016 Judaism Grows in Africa
Read the Original Stories Here From Madagascar to Zimbabwe, Jews, would-be Jews and thousands of Africans who are simply Jewish-curious are turning up. The phenomenon is continent-wide. but nowhere is the story more amazing than in Nigeria, where the Igbo—at 30 million people, one of the country’s major ethnic groups—have long seen themselves as descended…
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The Forward's Top Stories of 2016 Terrorism and the Palestinian Authority
Read the Original Story Here Does the Palestinian Authority subsidize terrorists? And if so, do American funds, which help to keep the P.A. afloat, effectively do so, too? That’s a question that has been kicking around for years, in particular within right-wing circles, where activists have long lambasted both America and Israel for failing to…
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The Forward's Top Stories of 2016 On Campus
Read the Original Article Here College campuses today can whiplash many young Jews with two seemingly contradictory big ideas: the importance of openness, equality and non-discrimination; and the importance of taking pride in and asserting the values that stem from one’s own cultural background. An investigation by the Forward in September demonstrated that the tension…
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The Forward's Top Stories of 2016 Standing at Standing Rock
Read the Original Stories Here Standing Rock, the North Dakota encampment where thousands of Native Americans and their supporters this year staged a stand against Big Oil, attracted many Jews in 2016. One, 21-year-old Sophia Wilansky, almost lost her arm; an explosion that activists said came from a stun grenade tossed by local law enforcement…
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Israel Fears Diplomatic Whirlwind Looming in President Obama’s Final Days
Israel fears that the United States and France want to advance another move on the Israeli-Palestinian issue before President Obama leaves office on January 20. A senior official in Jerusalem said that during Sunday’s security cabinet meeting, ministers were presented with an assessment that during the international foreign ministers’ meeting scheduled for January 15 in…
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Can New Tzitzit Unite Hebrew Israelites?
In the biblical Book of Numbers, God instructs the Israelites, “Throughout the generations to come, you are to make tassels on the corners of your garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.” In Deuteronomy, God reminds, “You shall make yourself twisted cords, on the four corners of your garment with which you cover yourself.”…
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Looking Back at Jacob Neusner’s Complicated Legacy
During the turmoil of the election campaign, the death of Jacob Neusner, one of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the past century, received relatively little attention. Neusner, who died in October, was one of the giants who established Jewish studies in the 20th century, and a central figure in the history of critical scholarship…
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ANALYSIS: Obama Gets Last Word at UN on Settlements — but Israel Turns Page to Trump
President-elect Donald Trump did not even need to use all 140 characters on Twitter to blast the Obama administration for allowing the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution condemning Israel’s settlement activity. “As to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th,” Trump tweeted less than an hour after the vote. It…
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