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  Woodrow Wilson was a hero to Jews. What should we do with his racism?

  The man whom African Americans revile as a villain turns out to have been a hero to the Jewish people

  By Jonathan D. Sarna

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  Anti-Israel demonstrations are ruining Black Lives Matter

  It is perhaps less than shocking that this season of our discontent gave way to a Day of Rage, a term used across the Arab world to denote a popular uprising. July 1 was devoted to an expression of Palestinian rage, with demonstrations erupting across the U.S. against “Israeli annexation, racism, and repression.” The date…

  By Ari Hoffman Jul 2, 2020 | 4 min read
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  A Supreme Court decision just exposed how liberal Jewish groups abandoned Jewish education

  As is common in church-state cases, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this week that religious schools cannot be exempted from government programs which provide aid to other private schools was welcomed by some as a breath of fresh air — and by others as the illest of winds. The decision, Espinoza v. Montana Department…

  Jul 2, 2020 | 4 min read

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• Emily Tamkin Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves it: The ‘gotcha’ mode of fighting antisemitism has to go

  

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  Annexation and BDS are two sides of the same coin

  This is one of many pieces The Forward is running on annexation. Read another point of view here and here. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu keeps his promises. I made that very point in my September article when Netanyahu first proposed annexing large portions of the West Bank, in the heat of his then tightly…

  By Dean Obeidallah Jul 1, 2020 | 4 min read
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  Love Israel? Oppose annexation.

  This is one of many pieces The Forward is running on annexation. Read another point of view here and here. In both my professional and personal life, there has never been a time when I have not proudly been a Zionist. My relationship to Israel has been defined by an abiding understanding that to be…

  By David Ellenson Jun 30, 2020 | 4 min read
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  What does Jewish tradition say about tearing down statues? It’s complicated.

  We Jews aren’t big statue fans. You know, that second commandment and all: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.” I remember back in the 1970s when my father, the beloved rabbi of a Baltimore synagogue that attracted Jews of all backgrounds, received a large, heavy package, a gift from a congregant. He…

  Jun 30, 2020 | 4 min read
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  American Jews’ hysteria about annexation has nothing to do with Israel

  This is one of many pieces The Forward is running on annexation. Read another point of view here and here. There are plenty of things to argue about these days. The presidential election is a mere 125 days away, and the country is enmeshed in a series of overlapping crises, fueled by long-simmering resentments and…

  By Ari Hoffman Jun 30, 2020 | 4 min read
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  Letter | My existence is a better revenge than renaming Harvard’s Lowell House

  Dear Editor, As a Jewish alumna of Harvard College who lived in Lowell House, I am in strong disagreement with Mitchell Bard’s recent piece urging the university to rename the undergraduate residence hall. When I was a student in Lowell from 2014-2017, there were always frank conversations within the House community about the racism, homophobia,…

  By Talia Weisberg Jun 30, 2020 | 3 min read
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  It’s time for Harvard to reckon with its anti-Semitic legacy

  As Americans continue to struggle with a history of racism, removing monuments to the men who defended slavery and betrayed their country, isn’t it time to also remove those honoring anti-Semites? The Forward identified eight, including those honoring Henry Ford, George Patton and Charles Lindbergh. But there is a ninth that deserves more immediate attention….

  By Mitchell Bard Jun 29, 2020 | 3 min read
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  Defending annexation, the Jewish establishment proves its impotence

  This is one of many pieces The Forward is running on annexation. Read another point of view here and here. We’ve entered a new era in terms of the relationship American Jews have with the community organizations that claim to represent us. Last Tuesday, powerful long-time New York Congressional representative Eliot Engel, chairman of the…

  By Joel Swanson Jun 29, 2020 | 4 min read
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  I’m a Jewish millennial success story. Annexation threatens everything we’ve built.

  This is one of many pieces The Forward is running on annexation. Read another point of view here and here. I owe everything I am to the ecosystem built by visionary Jewish communal leaders. My life’s story is practically divided into chapters organized by Jewish experiences: forming an identity during starlit conversations at summer camp;…

  By Brandon Rattiner Jun 28, 2020 | 4 min read