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  World Zionist Congress elections: Israel Shelanu

  The Forward invited the 15 parties contending for the World Zionist Congress elections, which end March 11, to write an article about why readers should support them. Eight responded by our deadline (we’ll happily publish the others; contact [email protected]). The parties are presented in alphabetical order. The American delegates to the Congress help allocate nearly…

  By Yaakov Cohen

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  World Zionist Congress elections: Hatikvah

  The Forward invited the 15 parties contending for the World Zionist Congress elections, which end March 11, to write an article about why readers should support them. Eight responded by our deadline (we’ll happily publish the others; contact [email protected]). The parties are presented in alphabetical order. The American delegates to the Congress help allocate nearly…

  By Hatikvah Mar 6, 2020 | 3 min read
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  World Zionist Congress elections: Americans4Israel

  The Forward invited the 15 parties contending for the World Zionist Congress elections, which end March 11, to write an article about why readers should support them. Eight responded by our deadline (we’ll happily publish the others; contact [email protected]). The parties are presented in alphabetical order. The American delegates to the Congress help allocate nearly…

  By Joseph Tipograph Mar 6, 2020 | 2 min read

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  Arab voters just rescued Israel’s democracy

  The votes from Monday’s Israeli election are in, and there seems to be clarity about at least one thing: how many seats each party will have in the next Knesset. Beyond that, everything else is up in the air regarding Israel’s political future. Will Benjamin Netanyahu, who used his usual mix of fear-mongering, bravado, and…

  By David N. Myers and Daniel Sokatch Mar 6, 2020 | 3 min read
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  Bernie and Biden on Israel? It’s not as simple as you think.

  For those watching where presidential candidates stand on Israel, it is hard to think of a more striking contrast than that between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, the two remaining viable Democratic hopefuls. The former Vice President, a distinguished U.S. Senator for nearly four decades who at one point chaired the Foreign Relations committee, is…

  By Abe Silberstein Mar 6, 2020 | 3 min read
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  Dear Senator Warren: Here’s what your candidacy meant to me

  Dear Senator Warren, I first met you in September of 2018, at a rally in Washington, DC. You had come to speak to the women — most of us survivors of rape and sexual assault — who had spent the last several months being arrested, taunted, and talked down to as we fought tooth and…

  By Tae Phoenix Mar 6, 2020 | 4 min read
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  Warren’s departure leaves Sanders as the only hope for change

  On Thursday, Elizabeth Warren ended her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Warren’s departure not only finalized the narrowing of a historically large and diverse primary field down to two; it represented the closing of one possible path for the party to take following its 2016 disaster, with Sanders and Biden giving voters a stark…

  By Benjamin Dueholm Mar 5, 2020 | 4 min read
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  Ignorance about the Holocaust is fueling anti-Semitism. So I wrote the Never Again Education Act.

  In the spring of 1945, as the war in Europe was drawing to a close, a US Army unit began the liberation of Buchenwald, one of Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camps. It was the first such camp American forces had encountered. They alerted the office of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied…

  By Carolyn B. Maloney Mar 4, 2020 | 3 min read
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  Israelis just voted against the two state solution

  Exit polls and early results from Monday’s Israeli election predicted a reprise of the first of three elections that began last April: a victory for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his bloc of right-wing, nationalist, and religious parties. Unlike in September’s vote, when Netanyahu finished a disappointing second and was not close to reaching the…

  By Abe Silberstein Mar 3, 2020 | 4 min read
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  What Sanders’ shellacking in South Carolina means for the race

  On Saturday night in South Carolina, former Vice President Joe Biden scored a resounding win against the rest of the Democratic Primary contenders. The candidate ended the night with 48.4% of the vote and, it wasn’t even close; Biden’s closest competition came from Bernie Sanders, who finished nearly 30 points behind him. Black voters have…

  By Marcus Johnson Mar 2, 2020 | 4 min read
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  The dam is breaking for LGBT acceptance in the Orthodox world

  A few days ago, I saw a headline that read: “This Orthodox Jewish rabbi just performed his first-ever ‘joyous’ same-sex wedding.” As a gay Jew, this piqued my interest, but for the rest of the world, it seemed that this news went over with a yawn. It was covered dryly by the Times of Israel,…

  By Matthew Schultz Mar 2, 2020 | 4 min read