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Seeking To Help Israel, American Jewish Institutions Sold Us Out
Over the past year, many have pointed to the growing divide between American Jews and Israel. But another divide has opened up, and it’s equally distressing: between American Jews and their institutions. Deep in the grip of a realpolitik that prioritizes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s narrow, protectionist view of what’s good for Israel over…
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Opinion Will Cory Booker’s Flip-Flopping On Israel Hurt Him In 2020?
On Friday, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey announced he would seek the 2020 Democratic nomination for president. For Jewish voters, there is an extraordinary history to consider when it comes to Booker, a former Mayor of Newark and Rhodes Scholar who once offered to tweet a D’var Torah during a snow storm for Jewish…
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Opinion The Hypocrisy Of Lee Zeldin’s Attack Against Ilhan Omar
On Friday, Congressman Lee Zeldin took to Twitter to release a reprehensible, vile, and hateful anti-Semitic voicemail he received from someone who targeted him for his Jewishness. This new VM just came into my office. @IlhanMN, this is just another day in my world as an American Jew in Congress. Would love to know what…
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Opinion Israeli Immigrants From India Celebrate Group Bat Mitzvah And Other Good News For The Jews This Week
Good news happens every day, it’s just not always reported. Once a week, just before Shabbat, the Forward will highlight stories about Jewish joy, triumph, and pride from Jewish communities in America, Israel and all over the world. If you have a tip for a Jewish news story that brought you joy, please send it…
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Opinion Inspiring Women | Taking On Tech With 7 Children
Sometimes it feels like we are saturated with bad news. We obsess over what’s wrong, who’s wrong and how wrong they are. It can be… debilitating. And yet, there are great people doing great things, people we know and people we don’t. This series will explore women in Israel. You’ll meet women from politics, tech…
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Opinion Sanders And Omar Are Right On Venezuela. Regime Change Is How We Got Iraq.
In the lead-up to America’s 2003 invasion of Iraq, a common technique on the right was to either imply or openly accuse anti-war liberals of being in league with Saddam Hussein. A cheap twist of rhetoric transformed protesting the invasion into endorsing the human rights abuses of Saddam’s regime. If you were against the war,…
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Letters Sorry, Liberals: You Don’t Have A Constitutional Right To Boycott Israel.
Dear Editor: I am a New York attorney who practices in the area of pro-Israel litigation. I am writing in response to “BDS is a Trap for Democrats” by Lara Friedman. In her piece, Friedman argues that with legislation that allows states to penalize companies that boycott Israel, Republicans “are now working to undermine democratic…
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Opinion Sorry, Haters: Birthright Had Its Biggest Year Ever
At the end of last year, Haaretz reported that Birthright had seen a drop in numbers, of up to 50%. This was shocking news, and seemed to confirm the growing disaffection among young Jews with Israel, emblematized by activists staging walkouts of their Birthright trips. But it turns out that this narrative is far from…
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Opinion How Did Israeli Elections Get So Racist?
A disturbing new trend has emerged in the political ads of the Israeli elections. Campaign ads seem to be competing over which candidate has killed the most Palestinians. These ads are horrifying. But they also tell us a lot about what — and who — is at stake in the current elections. The election campaign…
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Opinion Why Doesn’t The Media Call Out The Left For Its Hate?
Republicans are long accustomed to the media’s probing questions about the less than savory members of their party. Most recently, when Iowa Congressman Steve King endorsed a white nationalist for Toronto mayor and defended white supremacy in a New York Times interview, Republicans were grilled on their support for King. Party leaders ultimately denounced King…
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Opinion Howard Schultz Is A Tone-Deaf Billionaire Who Thinks He Should Be President. Sound Familiar?
As America is held hostage by a “businessman president” who recently reopened the government after a 35 day temper tantrum that cost the American tax payers billions of dollars, another American businessman has emerged from the fray. Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, has got a bold new notion that our system is broken and he…
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