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  Why Israel should have little to do with Holocaust Remembrance Day

  The memory of this atrocity doesn't belong to any one nation state

  By Emily Tamkin

  3 min read
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  Jews should be condemning mass deportation, not supporting it

  Those who are circulating messages on how to report foreign students need to remember their history

  By Aviya Kushner Jan 24, 2025 | 4 min read
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  Why did the ADL slam Whoopi Goldberg but give ‘grace’ to Elon Musk?

  As a Black Jew, I wonder why some antisemitic actions get a pass

  By Tamar Manasseh Jan 24, 2025 | 2 min read

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• Jodi Rudoren This is my last column as editor of the Forward

  

• Jay Michaelson Have we become the ‘ordinary Germans’ now?

  

• Rob Eshman Oh, great, Elon Musk’s antisemitic AI is about to ride shotgun in my Tesla

  

• Nora Berman First Camp Auschwitz, now Alligator Alcatraz — why the right is obsessed with commodifying brutality

  

• Dan Perry The scourge of Netanyahu’s self-interest has brought Zionism to its breaking point

  

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

  

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  Save your outrage: Elon Musk’s inauguration salute is just another distracting meme

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  By Rob Eshman Jan 23, 2025 | 3 min read
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  Netanyahu’s rejection of an Oct. 7 inquiry is a national disgrace

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  Trump, Netanyahu and Ta-Nehisi Coates want us to believe the world is simple — it isn’t

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  By Emily Tamkin Jan 20, 2025 | 4 min read
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  What Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Ruth and the burning bush can teach us about the LA fires

  Homes are burned but our spirit cannot be consumed

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