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Judaism Is Not Just For Jews: The Lesson Of Interfaith Families
Now that nearly three out of four marriages among non-Orthodox Jews are interfaith, 84% of new households that include at least one non-Orthodox Jew are interfaith households. That means that the future vitality of every aspect of liberal Judaism depends on engaging increasing numbers of interfaith families in Jewish life. Yet instead of discussion of…
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Opinion Anti-Israel Activists On Campus Have Made Ignorance A Virtue
If you’re a close follower of the issues Jewish students face on campus, you could be forgiven for feeling a bit of fatigue after a number of shocking anti-Semitic incidents occurred on college campuses in Canada last month. At the University of Toronto, controversy ensued after the graduate student union initially refused to support a…
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Opinion Bernie Sanders’ Alliance With Linda Sarsour Is An Insult To Jews
I narrowed my eyes back in September when Bernie Sanders announced that activist Linda Sarsour would be his campaign surrogate. Hadn’t she said all manner of terrible things about Israel and the Jews who support it? “I would be so proud to win, but also to make history and elect the first Jewish American president…
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Opinion Why The Left Has Failed With Black Voters
On Tuesday, California Senator Kamala Harris suspended her campaign for president. With Harris out of the race, all six of the candidates who have qualified for this month’s debate are white. It’s just the latest example of how in moving to the left, the Democratic Party has failed — and failed to attract — black…
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Opinion The Campus Anti-Semitism ‘Epidemic’ Is Fake News
Over the past week, two stories broke about anti-Semitism on university campuses that seemed to reinforce the prevailing narrative about such things — that there is an explosion of anti-Semitic action at North American institutions of higher learning. But these stories have a lot less in common than it seems, and their misrepresentation goes a…
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Opinion The Trump Administration Is Using Accusations Of Anti-Semitism To Silence Criticism Of Israel
At the end of August, the Department of Education sent an official letter to the Duke-University of North Carolina Consortium for Middle East Studies threatening to withdraw federal funding that had only recently been renewed for four years. At stake was $235,000, an annual allocation of “Title VI” funds which the federal government has given…
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Opinion Q&A With Asma Shuweikh, The Muslim Hero Who Defended A Jewish Family
On Friday, Asma Shuweikh, a Muslim woman, was filmed defending a Jewish father and his young children from the anti-Semitic abuse they were receiving from another passenger on a London train. The video quickly went viral all over the world. Across social media, Shuweikh was heralded as a hero. We caught up with Shuweikh over…
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Opinion Jewish Students Must Stop ‘Debating’ The Hate Against Them And Start Fighting It
In retrospect, the pattern of antagonism towards Jews and Israel that became visible at Columbia University in the early 2000s and was documented in the film Columbia Unbecoming wasn’t the worst expression of hostility; it was merely the first one to attract attention to an essential truth: On college campuses, Israelis and Jews who support…
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Opinion Can Britain’s Chief Rabbi Convince Voters Not To Support Anti-Semitic Labour?
Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis op-ed, published in the Times of London on Monday, reads as if it were written by a man who didn’t want to write the piece but believed he had no choice. “Convention dictates that the Chief Rabbi stays well away from party politics,” Mirvis writes, but “challenging racism” — specifically,…
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Opinion Israel Is Finally Fed Up With Bibi, The Perpetual Victim
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to define the indictments handed down against him last week. “Tonight we are witnessing an attempted coup,” he said soon after the announcement that he would be indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. Netanyahu’s supporters heard him loud and clear; a demonstration is planned…
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Opinion I’m A Black Jewish Convert. I’ve Felt Excluded In Every Synagogue I’ve Ever Been To
My spiritual journey was a long and circuitous one. It led me to Judaism and the realization that I wanted to convert. Sadly, my conversion to Judaism and the process of finding myself spiritually has come with the deeply saddening experience of feeling excluded in every synagogue I have ever attended — due to the…
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