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After 4 years of Trump, China’s abuses are worse than ever. What Biden must do to stop them
Joe Biden’s foreign policy team includes many familiar faces from the Obama Administration. Antony Blinken, Biden’s pick to be the next Secretary of State, was Deputy Secretary of State in January 2017. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan was National Security Advisor to the Vice President at the time. The list goes on. But though the…
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Opinion Why a post-pandemic world needs Birthright more than ever
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the suspension of a host of in-person programs, in and outside the Jewish world, including Birthright Israel’s iconic ten-day peer educational trips. With the prospect of an effective vaccine on the horizon, programs like Birthright that give primacy to intensive peer-to-peer interaction will no doubt be relaunched. But given…
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Opinion Birthright’s insulting obsession with intermarriage is erasing young Jews
The results are in: Birthright is a success. Or at least, this is the message of a new report out of The Cohen Center’s Jewish Futures Project which measured the impact of the ten-day free trip to Israel for Jewish North Americans. But what do they mean by success? A closer look at the study reveals…
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Opinion Go ahead, call it a cult: I’m grateful for my Peloton
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. Maybe my strangest personal development in this strangest of years is that I have started going to church. Not, you know, actually going, of course —…
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Opinion Jews died on Mayor Dinkins’ watch. Here’s why the Forward endorsed him anyway.
The death of Mayor David Dinkins is a sad moment for those who cherished New York as what he liked to call a “gorgeous mosaic.” The Forward had favored him when, in 1989, he narrowly won the mayoral race against Rudy Giuliani, who then was the United States attorney in the city. I was the…
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Opinion Alejandro Mayorkas’ historic nomination is a wake up call: Stop erasing Sepharadim.
The incoming Biden Administration is already making major waves with a number of firsts: the first woman Secretary of the Treasury, first woman Intelligence Chief, and of course the first Black, Asian-American, woman Vice President. But there’s another major first for a different nominee: Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden’s pick for Department of Homeland Security Secretary, will…
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Letters Op-eds should come with bias warnings, just like Twitter
Dear Editor, Just as Twitter and Facebook now put up warnings or don’t allow certain posts I think you need to create a policy to inform your readers about the bias of the people providing articles in the Forward. Mr. Hammer claims that Mr. Trump was the best president ever for Israel and that’s pretty…
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Opinion How a new Iran Deal could restore bipartisanship in Washington
Last weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Director of Mossad Yossi Cohen reportedly flew to Saudi Arabia to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS. Together, they purportedly discussed how to deal with Iran as well as the issue of normalization in the wake of an incoming Biden Administration. Both leaders…
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Opinion This Black Friday, commit to boycotting companies that use forced Uighur labor
Many of us are familiar with the thrill of Black Friday shopping: anxiously counting down the minutes to the sale, frantically entering our credit card information, smiling with satisfaction as we receive our confirmation emails, happily awaiting our packages. But this year, as we dive into the rush of holiday sales and bargains, our purchases…
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Opinion Debate | What should Biden’s approach to Israel be?
On Monday evening, President Trump finally agreed to allow President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team to do its job. What this means is that the next presidency is on its way in. What will a Biden administration’s approach to Israel be? What should it be? We asked Forward contributing columnists Ari Hoffman and Joel Swanson to…
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Opinion Bibi’s Trip To Saudi Arabia was all about a New Iran Deal
It is not exactly a secret that both the Israeli and Saudi governments would have strongly preferred a second term for President Donald Trump. Israel was thoroughly enamored with Trump, who, assuming the December 14 Electoral College vote confirms Joe Biden’s presumptive victory, will leave behind a legacy as the most unquestionably pro-Israel American leader…
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