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Letter | Why won’t people take Reverend Warnock at his word on Israel?
Dear Editor, My wife and I are children of concentration camp survivors. We are deeply disturbed that many Jews don’t take U.S. Senate Democratic candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock at his word. His rhetoric is dangerous to Jewish interests. And Professor Deborah Lipstadt’s article in these pages, “For those who want to fight antisemitism, the choice…
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Opinion Violent white supremacy is an international network. We can’t afford to ignore it.
A judge in Halle, Germany sentenced Stephan Balliet to life in prison on Monday for the murders he committed and his attempted massacre on a synagogue on Yom Kippur last year. And yet, despite the sentence, the prosecutors failed to address the role that violent white supremacy had played in Balliet’s heinous crimes; they did…
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Opinion Our continued rejection of interfaith families hurts everyone
The Pew Report’s finding seven years ago, that 72% of non-Orthodox Jews were intermarrying, rocked the Jewish world. The report did not explain why interfaith couples are relatively less Jewishly engaged by traditional measures, but it did provide one clue: While 89% of intermarried Jews were proud to be Jewish, only 59% had a strong…
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Opinion A TikTok Hanukkah miracle
How my 13-year-old's comment on a video about tiny ice cream led to a lot of learning
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Opinion Memo to Belgium: A country that wants Jews doesn’t ban kosher meat
Right before the end of Hanukkah, a holiday that celebrates the right to religious freedom, the European Court of Justice reminded us that this right is very much in peril. Earlier today, the Court upheld Belgium’s effective ban on ritual slaughter, ruling that it does not violate the European Union’s promise of religious freedom. It’s…
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Opinion For those who want to fight antisemitism, the choice in Georgia is clear
During this seemingly endless electoral season, I counted myself amongst those Jews who would have preferred to live in less “interesting times.” And never has that been truer than for those of us in Georgia, where we face yet another pivotal election: a runoff for both senatorial seats. Jews have found themselves in, or to…
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Opinion The JVP antisemitism panel was problematic for what wasn’t said
“Tell everybody I don’t hate you. I absolutely love you,” Palestinian Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib said last at Jewish Voices for Peace’s “Dismantling Antisemitism, Winning Justice” webinar. JVP’s event featured Tlaib and Temple University Professor Mark Lamont Hill, both of whom have advocated for boycotting Israel in the past and both of whom have been accused…
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Opinion ADL: We’re proud of our record defending Jews — and Muslims
As one of the oldest civil-rights organizations in the Jewish community, we’re not unaccustomed to criticism, even in the pages of one of America’s oldest Jewish news outlets. But the OpEd by Salam Al-Marayati, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, which the Forward published on Tuesday morning, was illuminating about how certain quarters in…
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Opinion Hanan Ashrawi’s departure from the PLO exposes the crisis in Palestinian leadership
Last week, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, an iconic Palestinian scholar, activist and feminist, and a decades-long fixture in Palestinian politics, resigned from the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee. The resignation of Dr. Ashrawi, the only woman on the committee, was accepted by PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Read: Statement by @DrHananAshrawi regarding her resignation from the PLO…
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Opinion Hanukkah celebrates our triumph over genocide. Uighurs are undergoing one right now.
Most years, the historical events that we celebrate on Hanukkah every year seem pretty distant. An empire invaded, banned the religion of our ancestors and attempted cultural erasure — but they failed, so we eat latkes. But this year is not like most years. This year, a tyrant has once again been putting up his…
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Opinion A liberal Jewish group just de-platformed a Muslim leader. That’s not OK.
One of the main challenges of being a progressive Jew in America in 2020 is being asked to check our Zionism at the door in order to join conversations or coalitions around civil rights. It happens on college campuses. It happens in Black Lives Matter marches. It hurts. So it was particularly upsetting to learn…
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