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Digging Into Jewish Charities On #AccountabilityMonday
Four years ago, Forward reporter Josh Nathan-Kazis embarked on an ambitious project: a comprehensive survey of the financial workings of the Jewish charitable sector in the U.S. Entitled “$26 Billion Bucks” — the net assets of the Jewish community’s federations, schools, health care organizations and other not-for-profit groups that publicly report their finances — Josh’s…
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Opinion Dispute Over Airbnb In West Bank Settlements Shows ADL’s ‘Moral Schizophrenia’
The Anti-Defamation League has a disease. It suffers from an acute — and potentially fatal — form of moral schizophrenia. The ADL was founded 105 years ago during the anti-Semitic conviction and later lynching of Atlanta business owner Leo Frank with a dual purpose. It was created “to stop…the defamation of the Jewish people” but…
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Opinion We’re Now Locking Our Synagogue’s Doors. It’s Not Because of Linda Sarsour.
It’s a decision I prayed we would never make. We’ve talked about for months. But, at this point, even I won’t argue with it. From now on, our shul will keep its doors locked at all times. Even during davvening. A locked door is the last thing a person should find at a synagogue. A…
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Opinion Linda Sarsour Blamed The Media – Just Like Donald Trump
As Linda Sarsour attempts to deflect the calls for her to resign from the Women’s March, she bears an uncanny resemblance to the man she has staked her own legitimacy on opposing, Donald Trump. On paper, the co-leader of the Woman’s March and the 45th President have nothing in common. But their indignant refusal to…
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Opinion Legitimate Criticism Of The Women’s March Was Drowned Out By Racism
It’s undeniable that the Women’s March has made mistakes that are unbecoming of global leaders. Tamika Mallory’s support of Louis Farrakhan is distasteful in its tenacity and its ingratiating nature. Her calling him “The Greatest of All Time,” and responding to her critics by saying she had “the same enemies of Jesus,” has been incredibly…
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Opinion The Real Message Behind Linda Sarsour’s Apology
There are two Linda Sarsours. At least, that’s how it often seems to me. There’s the Linda who her Jewish allies know, a fearless woman fighting for the most vulnerable, powerful in her willingness to speak truth to power and constantly beset by horrific threats and disgusting insults, who wages war on those who seek…
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Opinion Ivanka Trump’s Privilege Blinds Her To Her Own Hypocrisy
I’m old enough to remember when Ivanka Trump was a feminist Democrat who was going to moderate her father’s racist policies. There was a time when I told myself that the employment of the president’s completely unqualified daughter was actually a good thing. After all, she had been a Democrat for years and so had…
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Opinion Stacey Abrams Lost. But She Brought Blacks And Jews Together Again.
Stacy Abrams may not be the governor of Georgia, but she has made a significant impact in this cherry red state. Georgia has a history rooted in racial terror, systemic oppression and white supremacy. People of color navigate through a maze of historical racism, injustice and past phobias that still threaten their freedom and safety….
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Opinion Are Ivanka And Jared ‘Good For The Jews’?
The two reporters who wrote the story splashed across the cover of the Sunday New York Times Style section asking whether Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are “good for the Jews” managed to quote only one woman — and 11 men. Sigh. I’m afraid this isn’t the first time the vaunted Times — a news…
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Opinion If You’re Only Calling Out Anti-Semitism On One Side, You’re Enabling It.
On Friday, November 16, Linda Sarsour accused American Jewry of dual loyalty, thereby inscribing herself into the registry of vicious anti-Semitic discourse. I write these words with hesitation and with little joy, for Sarsour has an impressive resumé of activism when it comes to laudable domestic causes. She has contributed much to the chipping away…
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Opinion Yes, There’s Anti-Semitism On The Left. But That’s Why Jews Need To Stay There.
Minnesota congresswoman-elect Ilhan Omar has come under fire for her lukewarm support of BDS, the nonviolent movement to boycott, divest from and sanction the state of Israel, as well as for an anti-Semitic comment she made in 2012 and has not redacted. “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them…
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Yiddish ווי אַ כּלי־זמר־פּאַראַד איז געוואָרן טייל פֿונעם קאַרנאַװאַל אין סאַאָ פּאַולאָHow a klezmer parade became part of the annual carnival in Sao Paulo
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