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The bad faith behind Zionist activists’ latest try to win the left
On Monday, Rudy Rochman, a bombastic, keffiyeh-wearing Zionist activist, will debate famed academic Noam Chomsky. It’s a mismatched and bizarre pairing: a world-renowned linguist whose ideas on Zionism and the state of Israel have shaped leftist discourse for decades versus a glorified college activist whose works include the YouTube videos “Avatar Jewish Connection” and “Breaking…
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Opinion What’s a Snow Day? Another conundrum of our new normal
This is an adaptation of our weekly Shabbat newsletter, sent by our editor-in-chief on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. And click here for a PDF of stories to savor over Shabbat and Sunday that you can download and print One of the most memorable things…
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Opinion ‘My Birthright trip was super radicalizing:’ A conversation with IfNotNow co-founder Max Berger
In the last decade, Max Berger has had his hands in some of the most prominent and disruptive left-wing campaigns, ranging from IfNotNow, Occupy Wall Street and Justice Democrats — a group that supports primary challengers to centrist Democrats — to Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 presidential campaign. Berger, 35, whose activism is rooted in his opposition…
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Opinion Don’t compare antisemitism on the left and right. Marjorie Taylor Greene proves it’s not the same.
After a long year of American crises, 2021 began with a violent insurrection incited by Donald Trump. The events of Jan. 6 represented an unprecedented attack on our democracy, culminating in domestic terrorists infiltrating and desecrating the U.S. Capitol at the urging of the President of the United States. Today, it’s clear that while Trump…
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Opinion Don’t laugh at Marjorie Taylor Greene — her Jewish constituents must live with her hate
Disturbed, exhausted, frightened, frustrated, hurt — these are only a few words members of the Rome, Ga. synagogue Rodeph Sholom have used to describe their reactions to Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. Within the last week, Greene, a believer in the QAnon conspiracy theory, was revealed to have publicly called for the execution of top…
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Letters Letter | Poland’s Warsaw Ghetto Museum should be celebrated, not attacked
Editor: On Jan. 27, 2021 G. Paulson, M. Dobkowski and S. Munn “objected,” in these pages, to the work of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, which I direct. They claimed that as “sons and grandsons of survivors” they should have a right to define the museum’s vision and content. But they overlooked the fact that the…
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Opinion The Jewish Space Laser Agency responds: We didn’t start the fire
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE From the Office of the Jewish Space Laser Agency We have witnessed some outlandish claims this week from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene about the Jewish people and our space laser. The Jewish Space Laser Agency is the main body responsible for the Jewish Space Laser, and should be the first stop for…
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Opinion Biden has taken the first steps on reproductive justice. Jews must push him further.
On Thursday, the Biden administration took action to expand access to reproductive health care, including abortion. These steps include rescinding the global gag rule and restoring federal funding to organizations abroad that provide abortion services or do related work, and directing the Department of Health and Human Services to review Title X, the first step…
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Opinion Andrew Yang’s $1000-a-month stipend reminds me of a time-honored Jewish tradition
Read this article in Yiddish. Imagine a world in the not-so-distant future when most jobs in our economy will be replaced by machines; not just blue-collar workers like truck drivers and garbage collectors, but also accountants, bookkeepers, teachers, even doctors and lawyers. Let’s face it, the rapid transition to automation is going to happen because…
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Opinion Memo to Abbas: Biden is not going to solve the Palestinians’ problems
As President Joe Biden was sworn into office last week, the octogenarian President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, hastened to issue a warm congratulatory statement, emphasizing his readiness for “a comprehensive and just peace process.” He sent a similar but more detailed letter to Biden’s team in November, offering to make several concessions in…
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Opinion How can a society apologize?
The Biblical story of the Gibeonites rarely makes it into the classroom of a Sunday School or Hebrew school, but the tale has much to say to 21st-century Americans. The Gibeonites, a Canaanite group, forged a pact with the Israelites when the Israelites were conquering the land—but, after a series of twists and turns, wound…
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