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When Rabbis Broke the Law To Help Women in Crisis Get Abortions
“Dear Rabbi Brenner,” the letter written in January 1970 began, “As the final seconds of 1969 ticked away on New Year’s Eve, my husband and I looked at one another and, without saying a word, both knew exactly what the other was thinking, and that was, ‘How differently things would look if it weren’t for…
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Anti-Defamation League Stands Almost Alone Against Communal Push for Anti-BDS Measures
As many Jewish groups jump on board a push for laws to penalize businesses and groups boycotting Israel, the Anti-Defamation League, long considered a pillar of the Jewish establishment, is not just standing back — it has been opposing the tide. And now, it’s taking flack for this. In a press release calling ADL’s opposition…
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Will Orlando Massacre Spur American Muslims and Gays To Unite in Fight for Civil Rights?
At a press conference just hours after a Muslim gunman murdered 49 people at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations described the separate struggles for equality being waged by gays and Muslims as “profoundly linked.” “Homophobia, transphobia, and Islamophobia are interconnected systems of oppression and we…
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Geraldo Rivera Victim-Shames Orlando Dead: ‘You Stay and Die or You Fight’
Fox News host Geraldo Rivera shamed the 49 victims killed in Sunday’s mass shooting in Orlando, implying they did not adequately “fight back” against the attacker. “If you can’t hide and you can’t run, there are two choices. You stay and die, or you fight. For God’s sakes, fight back,” Rivera said on Fox News….
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Orlando Jews Call for Unity With Muslims as Nation Reels From Massacre
ORLANDO — Central Florida’s Jewish community started laying the groundwork for interfaith cooperation with Muslims Monday as the nation reeled in grief and anger after an anti-gay gunman killed 50 people in the worst-ever mass killing in recent U.S. history. Rabbi Steven Engel of the Congregation for Reform Judaism, the largest synagogue in Orlando, and…
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Russia Quietly Strips Emigres of Dual Citizenship
Tens of thousands of Russian dual nationals are being effectively stripped of their Russian citizenship via a quiet policy of Russian consulates worldwide refusing to renew their passports. Under new regulations the consulates are enforcing, anyone seeking to renew a passport who was not registered as living in Russia on February 6, 1992, will be…
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Trump Advisor: Republican Presidential Nominee Will Not Hold a Grudge Against AIPAC
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will not hold a grudge against AIPAC after the pro-Israel lobby apologized to President Barack Obama after Trump’s speech during its annual conference in March. In a joint interview to the Jewish Link and JNS.org, Greenblatt criticized AIPAC for its decision, but when asked directly by an interviewer if Trump…
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Amid Furor, Some Say ‘Stanford Rape’ Judge Aaron Persky Revealed Bias in 2011 Sex Case
When Lauren Chief Elk heard the name of the judge whose sentence in the case of a former Stanford athlete accused of sexual assault drew outrage, something clicked. Five years earlier she had been a witness in a trial over which Aaron Persky presided that bore some striking similarities to the Stanford case, she said….
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Bernie Sanders Inspires Debate for Democrats on Israel — But Not Change
WASHINGTON – The Democratic Party’s first round of platform committee hearings had something for everyone, from AIPAC to J Street. Discussions about whether to include Palestinian rights and Israeli occupation in the platform were more robust than ever before in party history, a development J Street has advocated. For AIPAC, the meeting sent a clear…
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Israel Has Its Own Donald Trump, Cornel West Warns at Platform Committee Meeting
Donald Trump is reviled by Democrats, but they give Trump-like figures such as Israeli’s defense minister a pass, complained scholar and activist Cornel West, before the Democratic Party’s platform committee. “Trump-like figures in Israeli life” should be treated by Democrats just like Trump, said West, a member of the committee, during a hearing on foreign…
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After Four Months, Students Cleared of ‘Zionist Pig’ Charge for Lack of Witnesses
Brooklyn College has largely exonerated two students who spent the last four months ensnared in a drawn-out disciplinary process and publicly accused of anti-Semitism by their college president. The college could find no witnesses to tie the students to one of the most egregious allegations leveled against them: that while protesting a meeting one of…
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