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Why does the Democratic Party – like American Jewish institutions – refuse to condemn the occupation?
This week, the Democratic party rejected adding the word “occupation” to its official party platform on Israel. Many seemed to consider this term a political statement, rather than what it is — a neutral description of a category in international law, which defines occupied territory as that “placed under the authority of the hostile army.”…
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Opinion I’m a young American Jew and proud Zionist. Seth Rogen doesn’t speak for me.
I was raised in a Zionist household. I went to a Jewish summer camp, I attended a synagogue that organized many trips to Israel, and I was close friends with Israelis all throughout my childhood. From day one, Israel was a central part of my Judaism. When I went to college and became active in…
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Opinion We Jews know what happens in concentration camps. We cannot be silent about China’s abuses.
As Jews and Americans, we need to stand up to China’s efforts to explain away the true nature of its actions
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Opinion The real lesson of Seth Rogen? If you want your kids to love Israel, tell the truth.
“I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life,” Seth Rogen said in his now infamous interview with podcaster Marc Maron. These words hit me, a Jewish history teacher, like a ton of bricks, far more than any of the other offensive or misinformed comments he made elsewhere in the podcast….
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Opinion I’m Black and Jewish. I can’t let a social struggle define me.
At 45-years old, I am still learning not to let other people define me. As the son of an African American father and a white Jewish mother, I struggled growing up with feeling like an outsider: not Black enough to be embraced by the Black kids, not white enough to stop the racism leveled my…
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Opinion The real killer of the two-state solution? The Palestinian right of return
Twenty years ago, in July 2000, we were filled with hope as Ehud Barak, Israel’s Prime Minister and leader of the Labor Party, left for Camp David to negotiate a final peace agreement with the Palestinians. After more than a decade of previously unimaginable historical breakthroughs – the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall…
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Opinion Erasing left wing anti-Semitism is the height of privilege
Wednesday night marks the start of one of the most profound days of mourning on the Jewish calendar: Tisha B’av. This is the day on which both the First and Second Temples were destroyed. It’s also the date of many other Jewish tragedies, including the British expulsion of Jews in 1290, the Spanish expulsion of…
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Opinion Dear American Jewish boys: Please find another outlet for your Oedipal rage. Signed, Israeli Jews
Dear American Jewish boys, Please, please, take your Oedipal rage and find another outlet for it. It’s not Israel’s fault you hate your parents. Leave us out of this. I understand, I get it. You were 12, you were at summer camp, and someone gave you a heroic version of Israel’s history, and now that…
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Opinion Wake up, Jewish establishment: Seth Rogen speaks for a lot of us young Jews
Few millennial Jews have the ability to capture the Jewish cultural conversation the way Seth Rogen does. And this week, he used that influence to show the Jewish establishment why it can’t keep pretending that young Jews who reject Zionism and the state of Israel are relegated to a tiny, insignificant fringe of the community….
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Letters Letter | To the Jewish AOCs: Why don’t Jewish institutions support you?
To the Editor: In response to “We are the Jewish AOCs,” I would like to say that I fully agree and add that I am here, too, and for decades have been speaking and writing on our behalf. The problem is not only for “the Jewish organizational world to see us [my emphasis] as leaders…
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Opinion Anti-Semitism thrives on rumor. Trump is a rumor machine.
American Jews (Republican and Democrat alike) have made a habit in the last four years of trying to work out the relationship between Trump and anti-Semitism. We normally do this by carefully reading the tea leaves left out in the news. What does it mean when the White House—but not the president—gives press credentials to…
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