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My Black Children Are Jewish. Why Don’t Jews Treat Them That Way?
I thought I knew what being Jewish meant, until I had kids. Suddenly, here they were, these tiny balls of wonder, bouncing from one place to another faster than I could breathe. It was like my heart had split in two, plunged out of my chest, and started innocently bumbling into every danger imaginable, as…
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Opinion David Friedman Is A Joke. He Should Be Fired.
Last week, an Israeli armed with nothing but an avocado robbed two banks in the southern city of Beer Sheva. He told the terrified tellers he was holding a hand grenade. And although the average Israeli eats more avocados than anyone elsewhere in the world besides Mexico, Chile, and Peru, the tellers failed to realize…
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Letters Letter | Angélique Eijpe Has Been Wrongly Smeared. She Is A Hero For Civil Rights.
Dear Editor: Cnaan Liphshiz’s June 2nd article “Dutch Foreign Minister Defends Diplomat Promoting ‘One-State Solution’”, which discusses our organization’s co-founder Angélique Eijpe, failed to give our foundation, or Angelique as an individual, the opportunity to go on record about this issue. As a Palestinian and an Israeli, co-founders of the One State Foundation (OSF), we…
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Opinion Most Jews Weren’t Murdered In Death Camps. It’s Time To Talk About The Other Holocaust.
It was the tiny tallit that knocked the breath out of me. Slightly crumpled along the crease lines, as if just taken out of a closet where a loving mother had put it away after washing, it hung alone in its exhibit case at the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s new exhibit Auschwitz: Not long ago….
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Opinion Netanyahu Has Changed The Democratic Party – One Candidate At A Time
If you don’t think Benjamin Netanyahu has changed the debate about Israel inside the Democratic Party, just listen to Pete Buttigieg’s foreign policy speech yesterday at Indiana University. Buttigieg is no radical; he’s a darling of the post-Obama Democratic establishment. And yet he said things on Tuesday that would have been unthinkable during Obama’s campaigns….
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Opinion How Much Longer Do We Palestinians Have To Put Up With These Clowns?
If Trump’s ill-fated “deal of the century” to achieve Middle East peace ever existed, it never stood a chance against the blunders that emerge when each of its three architects – Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, his bankruptcy lawyer turned U.S. Ambassador David Friedman, and his real estate lawyer Jason Greenblatt — opens his mouth. Greenblatt…
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Opinion Don’t Fall For Selective Anti-Semites Just Because You’re Their ‘Good’ Jew
There was a time, not so very long ago, when it was possible for Jews to live our lives in at least some Diaspora countries without thinking about Anti-Semitism much at all. It was always there of course, and its history may have sometimes hung heavy on us, but anti-Semitism did not force its attention…
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Opinion Camp Is Great For Jewish Americans. We Russian Immigrants Got Bullied Mercilessly.
I watched Roman across the camp’s dining hall, surrounded by a group of jeering boys. He was the other “Russian” at camp, but we had never actually spoken, intuitively certain that any contact would intensify their taunts. “Look at the two gross Russians. I bet they wanna make out, ew!” they’d probably say. I imagine…
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Opinion Great News For Jews This Week: Cancer Breakthrough, Teen Holocaust Educator, And Neil Patrick Harris
It was another week in the Jewish world with both more blessings and more pain than we know what to do with. Here are just a few of the gems from the week — stories of Jews and allies who repaired tiny fractures in the world. Good news: It happens, too! Teachers: Claire Sarnowski, a…
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Opinion I Won Marriage Equality For Gay Americans. I Am Horrified At The Dyke March Ban On Jewish Symbols.
The growing, well-documented rise of anti-Semitism in the past few years in this country is disturbing. But there is something even more insidious when that discrimination comes from supposed friends. The D.C. Dyke March, an event that claims “to celebrate and center all Dykes,” has decided to ban certain symbols, including Israeli or Jewish Pride…
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Opinion Fellow Dykes: We Must Be Both Pro-Israel And Pro-Palestine
I remember the first Dyke March, organized by the Lesbian Avengers in 1993 during the LGBT March on Washington. I was there, and I remember feeling that I was finally free — that we dykes could claim all of who we were — our full and complex identities, our bodies, our love, our commitments to…
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