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Our Orthodox Family Was Attacked On A Train. A Brave Muslim Woman Intervened.
The author of this piece was filmed while he and his children were attacked on a train in London. The Forward normally identifies all of our op-ed writers, but the father expressed a fear of retaliation for speaking out, and has asked to remain anonymous. We have honored his request. To many of you, the…
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Opinion Two Jews Running For President, Two Models Of Jewish American Life
Michael Bloomberg’s official entry into the crowded contest for the Democratic nomination for president means, among other things, that we have two serious contenders who are Jewish, a first in American history: Mayor Bloomberg and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. And though they are practically the same age and share a common history, they are two…
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Opinion Have Your Say | Is Bloomberg’s Run For President Good For Jews?
Have Your Say is your chance to tell us what you think. Comment below or on Facebook and let us know what you think about the question posed in the headline. We’ll incorporate your answers in a story later in the week! Have Your Say | Is Bloomberg’s Run For President Good For Jews? https://t.co/MkR8Y1mSOJ…
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Opinion Netanyahu’s Response To His Indictment? Play The Victim And Weaken Israel Even More
When Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced on Thursday that he would indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on three separate corruption charges, Netanyahu knew just what to say. He called a press conference in advance, for precisely one hour after the first announcement began. Glaring at the cameras, he practically guffawed at points to swallow…
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Opinion 3 Qs With Jodi | What Does Israel’s Political Stalemate Really Mean?
Whenever people ask how long I was in Jerusalem as the bureau chief of The New York Times, I answer both in years and in stories. That is, almost four years — or, two wars in Gaza and two Israeli elections. My successor has certainly got me beat: two Israeli elections in six months, and…
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Opinion Thank You, Lt. Col. Vindman, For Reminding Us Who We Are
Watching the impeachment hearings, I was transported back to September 1972 when I briefly encountered — in a very personal fashion — the face of the KGB. A frightening moment, it offered me a glimpse of what an antisemitic authoritarian government is capable of. I had arrived in Moscow with a friend Erev Rosh Hashana…
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Opinion The Devastating Irony Of The Impeachment Hearings For Russian Jews
Two children of Jewish refugees testified in the Trump impeachment hearings in Washington this week. Today, Ambassador Gordon Sondland invoked his immigrant background in the opening statement of his testimony. “My parents fled Europe during the Holocaust,” he testified. “Escaping the atrocities of that time, my parents left Germany for Uruguay… Like so many immigrants,…
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Opinion The Problem With Settlements Is Not That They Are Illegal. It’s That They Are Immoral
Yesterday the Trump administration said Israeli settlements in the West Bank don’t violate international law. That’s absurd. Among international lawyers, the consensus that settlements are illegal rivals the consensus among international scientists that humans contribute to climate change. As UCLA’s Dov Waxman has pointed out, the legal advisor to Israel’s own foreign ministry admitted that…
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Opinion Vassar Is Actually Handling Anti-Zionist Protests Really Well. I Should Know – They Protested Us
This is one of a number of responses to what happened at Vassar when an Israeli speaker, Hen Mazzig, was protested last week. In 2019, protests against pro-Israel and Jewish speakers are all too common. The topic is a heated one, and speakers getting protested has become almost a daily social media frenzy. These episodes…
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Opinion Here’s Why We Protested Hen Mazzig At Vassar
This is one of a number of responses to what happened at Vasser when an Israeli speaker, Hen Mazzig, was protested last week. On Thursday November 14, at 5 p.m., around 25 members of Vassar’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter along with other students gathered on the third floor of Rockefeller Hall to voice…
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Opinion We’re Having the Wrong Debate about the West Bank
It was a special treat, I remember: We would jump in the back seat of a car and hop over to Efrat on Saturday night. I was 17, and living for a year in Gush Etzion, the area just south east of Jerusalem that has been the scene of repeated violence. I remember the quiet…
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Yiddish רבנישע כּתבֿים ווײַזן אומגעריכטע פֿאַרבינדונגען צווישן ייִדיש און לאַדינאָRabbinical texts reveal surprising links between Yiddish and Ladino
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Opinion Why Poland’s president canceled his menorah lighting — and how the West helped make that happen
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Yiddish אַ ייִדיש־רעדנדיק קינד דאַרף אַ „שטעטל“׃ ווי עלטערן קומען זיי אַנטקעגןIt takes a village to raise a child in Yiddish: How parents are doing it
מחוץ די חסידישע קרײַזן האָבן געוויסע עלטערן געשאַפֿן זייערע אייגענע ייִדיש־סבֿיבֿות
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