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  Thank You, Ambassador Haley, For Standing Up For Jews

  “I wear heels, but it is not a fashion statement,” U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said at the AIPAC Policy Conference last year. “It is because if I see something wrong, I’m going to kick ‘em every single time.” This is perhaps the most iconic statement made by, arguably, the most pro-Israel U.S….

  By Hen Mazzig

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  Don’t Be Fooled: Nikki Haley Is Just Like Trump

  Nikki Haley’s abrupt departure from her position as US Ambassador to the UN quickly sparked hope in the beleaguered ranks of Never-Trump Republicans, eager for the former South Carolina governor to challenge President Trump in the 2020 Republican primaries. But though foreign policy conservatives want to see in Haley an alternative to the president’s erratic…

  By Peter Feld Oct 9, 2018 | 3 min read
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  Nikki Haley Was A Nightmare For Us Palestinians

  Six months after President Trump took office, his newly-appointed ambassador to the UN and former South Carolina governor, Nikki Haley, concluded a tour around Israel and the occupied West Bank with a hopeful tweet, featuring Haley with UNRWA female refugee students. She had discussed their “dreams and hopes.” This morning we visited an UNRWA refugee…

  By Muhammad Shehada Oct 9, 2018 | 3 min read

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  The Real Reason Orthodox Jews Love Nikki Haley

  There’s a joke people are telling in Israel about Nikki Haley, President Trump’s Ambassador to the United Nations who just announced she would be stepping down in January. The joke’s setting is Mea Shearim, one of Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods. Nine men are seeking a tenth to complete the quorum necessary for prayers. Just as they…

  By Batya Ungar-Sargon Oct 9, 2018 | 5 min read
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  With Nikki Haley’s Resignation, We Israelis Lost A Hero

  It felt like a blow. “Nikki Haley resigned” kept popping up in my messages. Similar to the texts we Israelis get when there is a terror attack, my heart sank. It’s surprising that an Israeli would feel this way about the US ambassador to the UN. Except Nikki Haley is far more than that to…

  By Shoshanna Keats-Jaskoll Oct 9, 2018 | 3 min read
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  How a Reporter’s Curiosity Broke Through a Shadowy Website’s Secrecy

  Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! When Josh Nathan-Kazis, a staff writer at the Forward, first noticed the provocative and shadowy website in 2015, he put his journalist’s curiosity to work. The site was called Canary Mission, and on…

  By Jane Eisner Oct 9, 2018 | 4 min read
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  In Search Of A Prophet

  In this, our season of social discontent and political disgrace, I am looking for a prophet. I am especially looking for a prophet who will speak out as a Jew. Not someone who will speak out against anti-Semitism. We are fortunate to have plenty of those already. Nor someone who will decry efforts to isolate…

  By Jane Eisner Oct 9, 2018 | 4 min read
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  Dear Lynn Schusterman: Please Stop Funding Shady Organizations.

  Dear Lynn Schusterman, I am a documentary filmmaker and a member of the ROI Community, an initiative of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. I attended the ROI Summit in Jerusalem in 2011 and have since received funding for various stages and aspects of my film, Punk Jews. The ROI network has been invaluable…

  By Evan Kleinman Oct 8, 2018 | 3 min read
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  Trump’s Shameful Anti-Semitic Dogwhistle Puts Him In Bad Company

  It’s understandable — hell, perhaps necessary — to inure yourself while reading most of Donald’s morning bile on Twitter. Some days are easier to ignore it than others, especially when more pressing atrocities are at hand, like the theft of a Supreme Court seat. Today’s particular Presidential sewage deserves at least a momentary pause: “The…

  By Andrew Paul Oct 5, 2018 | 3 min read
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  Canary Mission Protects Jews. It Should Be Thanked, Not Criticized

  A recent exposé in these pages disclosed that Canary Mission, a website that collects the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statement of activists, received funding from the San Francisco Jewish Federation. The Federation was forced by the report to promise that it would no longer fund Canary Mission. This is a mistake. Canary Mission provides a huge…

  By Yisrael Rosenberg Oct 5, 2018 | 3 min read
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  I Believe Dr. Ford. But I Hope Brett Kavanaugh Is Confirmed.

  If the point of last Thursday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing was to figure out if Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation, that she was sexually assaulted by a teenaged Judge Brett Kavanaugh, was true, the hearing was a complete and utter failure. Both Ford and Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, came across as credible, her…

  By Eli Steinberg Oct 4, 2018 | 4 min read