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  Have Your Say | Should Israel Bar Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib?

  Have Your Say is your chance to tell us what you think. Comment below or on Facebook or Twitter and let us know what you think about the question posed in the headline. Should #Israel bar @IlhanMN and @RashidaTlaib from entering the country? — The Forward (@jdforward) August 15, 2019

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  Epstein’s Death Should Come As No Surprise. America’s Prison System Is Broken.

  On Friday, The New York Times reported that Jeffrey Epstein autopsy results confirm that the disgraced financier, who was accused by multiple girls of molestation and rape, had died by suicide. No person in the custody of the state should ever, under any circumstances, be enabled to take their own life. No matter what crime…

  By Rochelle Swartz Aug 15, 2019 | 4 min read
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  How IfNotNow Lost Its Way

  Lies come in a number of forms. You can lie by telling an outright falsehood. You can lie by distorting the truth. And you can lie by omitting crucial context. Lying by omission is uniquely nefarious, for it involves taking something that is true in its complete form and altering it such that it still…

  By Shoshanna Keats-Jaskoll Aug 14, 2019 | 6 min read

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  Have Your Say | Should Jeffrey Epstein Get A Jewish Burial?

  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.

  By Forward Staff Aug 14, 2019 | < 1 min read
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  Protest Is A Sacred Jewish Practice

  Despite growing up to become a rabbi, I don’t remember much about my Hebrew School days. I remember being excited to learn the letters, and being bored reading about some people called “Babylonians” in a book that smelled like a basement. One thing I do remember quite clearly, however, is a trip I took with…

  By Michael Rothbaum Aug 14, 2019 | 4 min read
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  What The Israeli And American Left Can Learn From Each Other

  The right-wing in Israel has largely dominated politics for nearly 20 years. But I’m going to say something shocking here: Israeli voters are not right wing; Israeli Jews are. Nearly all Israeli Jews vote for Jewish/Zionist parties, while the vast majority of Israeli Arabs vote for Arab/non-Zionist parties. It’s from those Jewish/Zionist parties that the…

  By Alec Ewig Aug 14, 2019 | 5 min read
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  ‘#JewsAgainstICE’ Is Transforming The Jewish Community, Returning Us To Our Diasporic Roots

  This year, Jews across the United States marked the fast day of Tisha B’Av — the saddest day on the Jewish calendar which commemorates the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem — by protesting against a modern-day example of the destruction, uprooting, and banishment of communities: the detention and deportation of immigrants by US Immigration…

  By Joel Swanson Aug 12, 2019 | 7 min read
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  AIPAC Took 41 Democrats To Israel – And They Applauded Netanyahu

  Forty-one Democratic House members were in Israel last week on a trip led by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, working hard to highlight their unified support for their host country. Rejecting ongoing Republican attacks accusing Democrats of being insufficiently pro-Israel, Hoyer said: “The central reality is that there is extraordinary unity on issues that Israel is…

  By Richard M. Goldwasser Aug 12, 2019 | 3 min read
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  Young Jews Protesting Trump’s Camps Remind The Establishment What Jewish History Stands For.

  Historical moments of reckoning have a way of galvanizing American Jewry. Mass migration, dislocation, pogroms, persecution and the First World War created new institutions of Jewish life in America that rescued and integrated nearly three million Jews into the unique discourse of a participatory American republican democracy. The Zionist project and then the rehabilitation of…

  By Andy Bachman Aug 12, 2019 | 3 min read
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  Epstein’s Case Deserves An Investigation, Not Conspiracy Theories

  When the news that Jeffrey Epstein had died of suicide arrived on Saturday morning, it was not a question of whether conspiracy theories would quickly take hold, but of which ones. Epstein, the disgraced financier accused of sex trafficking underage girls, was connected to an ungodly number of elite circles: Wall Street, highly-ranked academic institutions,…

  By Abe Silberstein Aug 12, 2019 | 3 min read
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  Please Don’t Politicize Dvir Sorek’s Murder. His Final Act Was One Of Peace.

  If history is any guide, in the coming weeks, the horrifying murder of Dvir Sorek in a West Bank terror attack will be weaponized by right-wing Israeli politicians. His death will be used as ammunition for those seeking to demonize the Palestinian people and to yet again quash any movement toward peace. Make no mistake:…

  By Emma Goldberg Aug 9, 2019 | 3 min read