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  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….

  By Izabella Tabarovsky

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  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….

  By Peter Beinart Jun 12, 2019 | 3 min read
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  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…

  By Sam Bahour Jun 11, 2019 | 4 min read

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  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…

  By Keith Kahn-Harris Jun 11, 2019 | 4 min read
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  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…

  By Masha Kisel Jun 10, 2019 | 8 min read
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  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…

  By Jenny Singer Jun 7, 2019 | 3 min read
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  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…

  By Roberta Kaplan and Michael Bloch Jun 6, 2019 | 3 min read
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  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…

  By Rachel Timoner Jun 6, 2019 | 3 min read
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  The Dyke March Banned Jewish Symbols. Again.

  The Dyke March is perhaps most famous for a 2017 fiasco, when the organizers forcefully removed Jewish women from marching for the crime of holding Jewish pride flags. It’s back, this time for a march in Washington D.C. this Friday. And though the march bills itself as radically inclusive for lesbians of all stripes, it…

  By Peter Fox Jun 6, 2019 | 4 min read
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  This Orthodox Family And Their Yeshiva Are In A Legal Battle Over Vaccines

  Last week, a federal court in Brooklyn became the latest battleground in the New York vaccine wars, further testing whether parents can exempt themselves from their legal obligation to vaccinate their children. The stakes keep getting higher. The CDC has already confirmed 981 cases of the measles in 2019 — more than any year in…

  By Michael A. Helfand Jun 5, 2019 | 5 min read
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  Cornell’s BDS Fight Backfired. It Made Our Pro-Israel Community Stronger.

  When Cornell’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine announced its boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign against Israel at Cornell University where I am a rising senior, an atmosphere of fear developed among the Jewish community. A similar BDS push failed at Cornell in 2014, and it was inevitable that it would come back. Still,…

  By Josh Eibelman Jun 5, 2019 | 3 min read