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  Editorial | To Fight Campus Anti-Semitism, More Tools Are Welcome

  A Jewish writer I know told me he came home the day President Trump’s executive order about anti-Semitism on college campuses was published and told his wife, “I hate it.” When she asked why, my friend said, “I don’t know.” At least he admitted it. Much of the Jewish world was so busy condemning or…

  By Jodi Rudoren

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  What The US Left Should Learn From Jeremy Corbyn’s Shellacking

  Let nobody tell you otherwise: The shellacking of Jeremy Corbyn is an unalloyed good. There is no ambivalence, and there must be no regret. Those who shed tears for Haman will eventually shed tears because of him. Decency sometimes has incongruous messengers, and at the moment Boris Johnson, he of the boorishness and floppy hair…

  By Ari Hoffman Dec 13, 2019 | 3 min read
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  I Served In Afghanistan. I Was Lied To And Betrayed By My Government.

  I am a United States Army veteran who served for over 13 years. I’ve been deployed twice to Afghanistan, from 2006-2007 and from 2010-2011. Both tours were a year long. I served as an assistant chaplain in the military, which didn’t exempt me from the rules that governed our lives as soldiers. In the beginning…

  By David Weissman Dec 12, 2019 | 3 min read

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  How The Left Can Lead The Fight Against Anti-Semitism On College Campuses

  In the face of rising anti-Semitism, what should we ask of the law? The highly conflicting responses to President Trump’s executive order on anti-Semitism highlight a fundamental, century-old tension within the American Jewish community about the role of civil rights law in protecting Jews: Do we want the government to treat American Jews as a…

  By James Loeffler Dec 12, 2019 | 5 min read
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  I’m A Palestinian Student. Trump’s Executive Order Will Censor Me

  On Wednesday, the President of the United States signed an executive order that promises to endanger free speech. “We have… taken a firm stand against the so called Divestment and Sanctions Movement or BDS,” the president said Wednesday. “We forcefully condemn this anti-Semitic campaign against the State of Israel and its citizens.” ICYMI: Trump just…

  By Samer Hassan Dec 12, 2019 | 3 min read
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  Trump Aside, Are Jews A Nationality?

  On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that the Trump administration was signing an executive order defining Judaism as a nationality. The article set off an internet firestorm, with many Jews openly worrying that this was not meant to protect Jews, but to distinguish us from the American people. President Trump will sign an executive…

  By Alex Zeldin Dec 12, 2019 | 5 min read
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  President Trump: This Jewish College Student Thanks You

  After another apparent anti-Semitic attack, this time at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City on Tuesday, a glimmer of hope shone through for the American-Jewish community. In the run up to the White House’s annual Hanukkah party on Wednesday, President Trump signed the Executive Order on Combatting anti-Semitism. The order reads: “It shall be the…

  By Josh Eibelman Dec 12, 2019 | 2 min read
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  The Silence Surrounding Violence Against Us Orthodox Jews Is Deafening

  Yesterday was one of those days Jews are becoming more and more familiar with. It was a day we wish we could forget, but we know we will remember forever. With two murderers deliberately targeting a Jewish store in Jersey City, killing three innocent people, two of them Jews, the confidence we can have in…

  By Eli Steinberg Dec 11, 2019 | 3 min read
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  The Lesson Of Trump’s Executive Order That Wasn’t

  Two things happened to Jewish Americans on Tuesday. Only one of them was real. A Jewish grocery store in Jersey City really was attacked in a murderous rampage. There really was a synagogue and yeshiva in the same building, with real children who sat huddled in terror for hours who were then evacuated lest they…

  By Ari Hoffman Dec 11, 2019 | 3 min read
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  I’m A College Student Battling Anti-Semitism. Trump Is Making It Worse.

  As a college student who regularly encounters anti-Semitism on campus, you might think I’d be happy to see President Trump plan to sign an executive order to protect Jewish students, especially after a misreported rumor was cleared up about the executive order classifying Judaism as a nationality. You would be wrong. This executive order is…

  By Blake Flayton Dec 11, 2019 | 4 min read
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  Trump’s Executive Order Shows Again That He Thinks American Jews Are Displaced Israelis

  Over the past week, President Trump took two decisive actions related to American Jews. At first glance, one of these actions seems to be anti-Semitic, while the other appears to be supportive of American Jews. Yet taken together, both reinforce the same impression — that President Trump does not quite believe that American Jews are…

  By Joel Swanson Dec 11, 2019 | 4 min read