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Need a little “Israel Therapy”? Meet Libby Lenkinski, unlicensed professional
This is an adaptation of Looking Forward, a weekly email from our editor-in-chief sent 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 friend called because her…
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Opinion Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Holocaust tweet was a gift to Democrats
In today’s political environment, where everyone is either a Nazi or communist — and, as ever, the Jews are unhappily stuck in the middle — it was almost bound to happen. Like so many discarded blue face masks spread across the asphalt of a shopping center parking lot, the gauntlet was thrown down on May…
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Opinion Israel’s attacks on Gaza have only made Hamas stronger
At the end of each round of violence between Israel and Gaza, both Israel and Hamas always insist that they have won. This time around, Israeli politicians have ample footage of Gazan towers and neighborhoods they bombed “back to stone age.” Hamas likewise has footage of its rockets reaching Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, forcing Israelis into…
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Opinion We’re witnessing a new wave of antisemitic hate crimes. Here’s how we stop it.
In May, there’s been a terrifying surge in antisemitic hate crimes across the country. This is not just anecdotal, nor is it just a few isolated but well-publicized incidents in places like Los Angeles and New York. Rather, we have seen a torrent of incidents across the country in both small towns and major urban…
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Opinion To get closer to a two-state solution, Biden should make these four diplomatic moves
On May 25, Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Israel to help secure the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and design the economic arrangements with Gaza in the wake of the latest violence. It is also Biden’s first opportunity to open much broader conversations about the future of the Palestinian Authority, assert America’s position…
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Opinion As antisemitism skyrockets, Britain’s Jews feel their neighbors have abandoned them
Statistics can’t fully convey the massive surge in anti-Jewish behavior in Britain over the past two weeks. The Community Security Trust, an organization that monitors and fights antisemitism in the U.K., officially noted a growth of 500% in antisemitic incidents comparing May 8-18 to the similar period before. That is an extremely conservative estimate —…
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Opinion The Clubhouse app can be alienating. Here’s why Jews should stick around anyway
A year after the invite-only audio chat app Clubhouse launched for iPhone users, the social audio platform recently gave Android users access to the app as well. This fixes one of the more obvious exclusionary aspects of the app, still in beta, which has been downloaded by approximately 10 million users globally. But many inclusivity…
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Opinion One year later, a visit to George Floyd Square
In the time it took to upload a video, Chicago Avenue and East 38th Street one year ago today became the most recognizable, and infamous, street corner on the planet. Now, closed to traffic for two blocks in all four directions and named George Floyd Square, the spot has become a place of consolation and…
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Opinion Grieving the Mount Meron disaster, I connected deeply with Haredi moms for the first time
Too often as Jews we focus on our differences. But even with our differences, we can support, nurture, learn from and care for each other.
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Opinion As antisemitism skyrockets, both the left and the right have abandoned U.S. Jews
I pride myself on being an unapologetic Jew. Donning a black knit yarmulke on my head, with white tassels known as tzizit flowing from the corners of my shirt, I walk through New York City with a confidence my Holocaust-survivor grandparents could never know. But now, as a 20-year-old college student living in New York…
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Opinion You don’t have to support Israel’s decisions, but please show empathy for your fellow Jews
On our drive home from Jerusalem, my kids and I head East towards the Judean Desert. On a normal day, it’s about a 20-minute drive, but if we take a short cut, we can make it home in 18 minutes. As we drive down the large six-lane Sderot Haim Barlev, we can make a right…
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