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  The Real Reason The Squad Loves Bernie

  In early October, Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign was on the ropes. The 78-year-old senator from Vermont experienced chest pain and was rushed to the hospital. Later, he would admit that doctors diagnosed him with a myocardial infarction, better known as a heart attack. It was just two weeks before the third Democratic Primary Debate. While…

  By Siraj Hashmi

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  Bernie Sanders Is The Only Presidential Candidate Who Truly Cares About Palestinian Lives

  The 2019 J Street Conference, held last week in Washington, was the first time in recent memory that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was openly discussed and critically assessed in the mainstream American public sphere. Historically, presidential candidates on both sides of the political spectrum have been deaf to Palestinian grievances, blind to Israel’s injustices and defensive…

  By Muhammad Shehada Nov 5, 2019 | 3 min read
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  Israel’s Decision To Deport Human Rights Defender Will Further Alienate American Jews

  Tuesday’s Israeli Supreme Court verdict upholding the deportation of Human Rights Watch researcher Omar Shakir will reverberate well beyond Israel/Palestine. It will further the chilling of peaceful political activity of Palestinians and their allies across the world, including in the United States. But it will also contribute to the growing mobilization of American Jews against…

  By Sari Bashi Nov 5, 2019 | 4 min read

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  This Week Proves It: Anti-Semitism On The Right Is The Only Real Threat To Jews

  This week provided yet another illustration that despite the endless handwringing about anti-Semitism on the left, it is far-right extremism which constitutes the paramount threat to American Jewish life today. On Friday, Richard Holzer, a self-described skinhead and former KKK member, was arrested by federal authorities, accused of plotting to blow up a synagogue in…

  By Liam Hoare Nov 5, 2019 | 4 min read
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  The American Jewish Community Is Lurching Leftward

  Another Election Day is upon us, which means that countless American Jews are heading to voting booths across the country — to vote for Democrats. It’s certainly not news that Jews are a politically liberal group with deep concerns about social justice. Hundreds of books, columns, polls, and surveys have firmly established that American Jews…

  By Samuel J. Abrams Nov 4, 2019 | 3 min read
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  Letter | There’s A Sweet Side To Haredi Schools That’s Too Often Ignored

  Dear Editor, While I don’t dispute the reports of physical abuse at Hassidic boys schools, as a parent whose children have attended similar institutions, I have a different story to tell. True, there were some oddballs, including the strange man whom my son called “the Admor of the Cats” who kept a bottle of cherry…

  By Carol Ungar Nov 4, 2019 | 2 min read
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  Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael’s Betrayal

  The Reform Movement works in partnership with our members and institutions in North America, Israel, and the world to represent our Jewish values in Israel. Engaging actively with the non-profit Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael is one of the many ways we manifest our support. The historic National Institutions of the Zionist Movement, including the World Zionist…

  By Rabbi Rick Jacobs Nov 4, 2019 | 3 min read
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  Saudi Arabia’s Children Are Learning From Anti-Semitic Textbooks

  The House Foreign Affairs Committee made history this past week by taking serious action for the first time ever regarding Saudi Arabia’s anti-Semitic state textbooks. The bipartisan Saudi Educational Transparency and Reform Act (H.R. 554/S. 357) is the product of bipartisan cooperation between U.S. Reps. Joe Wilson (R-SC) and William Keating (D-MA). It would finally…

  By David Andrew Weinberg Nov 4, 2019 | 3 min read
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  White Men Aren’t Worried About Trump’s Twitter Harassment. That’s Because They’re Rarely His Target.

  Kamala Harris recently called for Trump’s Twitter account to be suspended for violating the site’s own terms of service against hate speech. Many in the media mocked her for focusing on what they saw as a trivial issue. However if you’re a member of a marginalized group, subject to the constant onslaught of Twitter harassment,…

  By Mia Brett Oct 30, 2019 | 6 min read
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  Democratic Party Split Over Military Aid To Israel

  This week at the J Street Conference, Bernie Sanders said he’d tell the Israeli government that, “if you want military aid you’re going to have to fundamentally change your relationship to the people of Gaza.” Pete Buttigieg promised to ensure that American “funding is going to things that are compatible with U.S. objectives and U.S….

  By Peter Beinart Oct 30, 2019 | 4 min read
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  Letter | Why Ilhan Omar’s Opposition To Sanctions Against Turkey Makes Sense

  Dear Editor, Daniella Greenbaum Davis bases her article “Ilhan Omar Just Came Out Against Sanctions. So Why Does She Support BDS?” on two incorrect assumptions, erecting a polemic on quicksand. Rep. Omar’s opposition to sanctions on Turkey might be due to Trump’s erratic nature of sanctioning. As we have seen with so many prior examples,…

  By Philip L. Bereano Oct 27, 2019 | < 1 min read