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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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion The Kavanaugh Hearings Have Brought On A Reckoning For Christians
Like any group, Christianity is hardly a monolith. That means that there have been many responses by Christians to President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and the accusation against him, brought by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when they were teens. Speaking for my brothers and sisters means covering…
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Opinion Thanks To Trump, Dr. Ford Was Laughed At. Again.
Christine Blasey Ford has had the kind of week nightmares are made of. Three weeks ago, she was a private citizen; today she is a public target — targeted by the most powerful man in the world. Last week, Doctor Ford sat down in front of a group of senators — 11 white Republican men…
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Opinion Calling All Men Potential Rapists Only Endangers Women
“If you don’t want to be accused of being a rapist, just don’t rape anyone” reads a meme circulating on social media. “Oh, those poor white men,” groan our Facebook friends, “they’re just afraid of losing their privilege.” On Twitter, activist Danielle Muscato asked what women would do if men had a 9pm curfew. The…
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Opinion In Funding Canary Mission, Jewish Federation Betrayed Us
The revelation that mainstream Jewish organizations like the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco have been secretly funding Canary Mission, a widely-condemned online blacklist of students and professionals critical of Israel, pulls back the curtain on a stunning abuse of the trust and esteem placed on these groups by the Jewish communities they purport to…
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Opinion I’m A Zionist. Canary Mission Targeted Me Anyway.
I woke up the other day to discover that I promote hatred of Israel and of Jews. So says the Canary Mission, a secretive website funded in part (as The Forward has reported) by a foundation affiliated with the San Francisco Jewish Federation. I am said to belong to a BDS organization (which one, it…
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