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  Thank You, Tiffany Haddish, For Reminding Us How Precious Our Heritage Is

  Something of great significance for the Jewish community happened last week. We must recognize and embrace it as such. Some folks — myself included — will have to get out, if just for the moment, of the lane we have long been traveling in. And we should be grateful for that opportunity. I refer not…

  By Deborah E. Lipstadt

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  Trump Is Right: I Don’t Love Israel Enough To Enable His Bigotry

  This past weekend, President Trump delivered a speech to the Israeli American Council invoking several anti-Semitic tropes. These included a “dual-loyalty” accusation, when he said that many Jewish Americans “don’t love Israel enough.” What Trump is talking about isn’t love; it’s hostage-taking. Trump, speaking to the Israeli American Council: “You’re not nice people at all,…

  By Carly Pildis Dec 9, 2019 | 3 min read
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  Don’t Believe Netanyahu. Israel Doesn’t Need The Jordan Valley. Here’s Why.

  This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, concurrent with rising speculations that the Trump administration may support Israeli annexation of the Jordan River Valley. Netanyahu’s latest focus on annexing the valley is a transparent political ploy to stay in power and pressure Gantz to accept a unity…

  By Ilan Goldenberg Dec 6, 2019 | 5 min read

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• Alyssa Katz Class assignment: Get to know your murdered Jewish neighbors

  

• Rob Eshman The San Diego imam defended Oct. 7. His mosque still deserves our help

  

• Dan Perry What exactly did Israel gain from striking Beirut and provoking Iran?

  

• Emily Tamkin Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point

  

• Jay Michaelson When it comes to Israel/Palestine, everyone is sure that everyone else is a bigot

  

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  My Cousin Mohammed Abukhdeir’s Murder – And The Jews Who Mourned Him – Changed Me Forever

  In the summer of 2014, my homeland was saturated with grief. It was the grief engendered by the loss of 531 children. The first three were Israeli. My cousin and neighbor, Mohammed Abukhdeir, was the fourth. Gaza would soon come to mourn 526 more. My life changed in unexpected ways after Mohammed’s murder. My family…

  By Kefah Abukhdeir Dec 5, 2019 | 10 min read
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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…

  By Edmund Case Dec 5, 2019 | 3 min read
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  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…

  By Seffi Kogen Dec 4, 2019 | 4 min read
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  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…

  By Matthew Schultz Dec 4, 2019 | 3 min read
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  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…

  By Marcus Johnson Dec 3, 2019 | 5 min read
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  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…

  By Joel Swanson Dec 3, 2019 | 5 min read
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  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…

  By Ian Lustick Nov 29, 2019 | 6 min read
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  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…

  By Virginia Jeffries Nov 27, 2019 | 5 min read