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  Is The Muslim Ban The First Step To Genocide?

  The decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the Muslim travel ban is devastating and shameful. It will not only harm those Muslims seeking refuge and/or reunification with their family in America, but it will also fuel a dangerous and very real animus toward Muslims who for generations have called America their home. A word…

  By Sharon Brous

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  White Jews: Stop Calling Yourselves “White-Passing”

  A couple of nights ago, I was walking to my apartment with a friend, who is an Ashkenazi Jewish woman. My Denver neighborhood is aggressively white, and I live with a white roommate. So needless to say, with my brown skin and my natural coils, I usually stick out like a drop of oil in…

  By Nylah Burton Jul 2, 2018 | 5 min read
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  Healthcare Is The Civil Rights Issue Of Our Time

  Last week, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stunned election-night reaction rooms around the country by winning the Democratic primary for New York’s 14th congressional district. Ocasio-Cortez is a 28-year-old DSA member with a degree in economics from Boston University. She helped organize for Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign during the 2016 Democratic presidential primary. After the coming election…

  By Ben Faulding Jul 2, 2018 | 5 min read

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  Why Do Mormons Treat Their Converts So Much Better Than Jews Do?

  One of my best friends growing up, Sarah, converted to Mormonism when we were in our late teens. Soon after her conversion, she married her high school sweetheart from one of the most prominent Mormon families in town. He exposed her to the Mormon community and theology, and soon she decided she wanted to build…

  By Bethany Mandel Jul 2, 2018 | 4 min read
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  For A Century, White Supremacists Have Smeared the ADL. Now, The Left Has Picked Up The Habit

  The Anti-Defamation League is the world’s leading institution fighting anti-Semitism. But in 2018, it has fielded staunch criticism from the left as well as the right. The situation on the left came to a head in April, after two black men were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks for no reason other than being black. Starbucks…

  By Andrew Mark Bennett Jul 2, 2018 | 12 min read
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  Alan Dershowitz: The Constitutional Case Against Impeaching Trump

  The following is an excerpt from Alan Dershowitz’s forthcoming book, “The Case Against Impeaching Trump.” On the basis of the constitutional text and the facts we currently have in the public record, the case against impeaching and removing President Trump is quite strong. In my forthcoming book, “The Case Against Impeaching Trump,” I lay out…

  By Alan Dershowitz Jun 28, 2018 | 8 min read
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  It’s Our Civil Right To Be Uncivil In The Age Of Trump

  Ever since Sarah Huckabee Sanders, President Trump’s press secretary, was booted out of a restaurant for lying to the American people about the president’s policy of tearing babies from their mothers’ arms, calls for civility have populated the op ed pages of the country’s biggest papers. Even the editorial board at the Washington Post published…

  By Nylah Burton Jun 28, 2018 | 5 min read
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  Trump Is Turning America Into An Idol

  There are many reasons for American Jews to reject Donald Trump’s inhuman treatment of the undocumented families who cross America’s borders. The Torah emphasizes the value of all people. (It doesn’t begin with Jews. It begins with Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel and Noah, who hail from no nation or tribe). The Torah repeatedly stresses our…

  By Peter Beinart Jun 28, 2018 | 4 min read
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  New Jewish Agency Chief Learns Quickly About Intermarriage. It’s Sensitive.

  On Sunday, Isaac Herzog — outgoing leader of Israel’s opposition party, son of the sixth president of Israel, grandson of a chief rabbi — was unanimously elected chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, the largest Jewish nonprofit in the world. It took only a few days for him to run into the buzz saw…

  By Jane Eisner Jun 28, 2018 | 3 min read
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  Israel, Learn About American Jews. You’d Quickly Fall Out Of Love With Trump.

  Forty years ago, Hillel Halkin wrote a powerful defense of Zionism in the guise of letters to an imaginary American friend. This year, Yossi Klein Halevi published what has become a best-selling book framed as letters to an imaginary Palestinian neighbor. I wouldn’t be so presumptuous as to mimic the skill and impact these two…

  By Jane Eisner Jun 27, 2018 | 5 min read
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  The Court Has Been Wrong Before. We Must Keep Fighting.

  Surreal. Disappointing. Disheartening. These are the words that came to my mind this morning, when I first learned that the Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s discriminatory and un-American Muslim travel ban. After a year and a half of working alongside allies and impacted communities to oppose it, I wasn’t surprised by today’s decision — but…

  By Wardah Khalid Jun 27, 2018 | 3 min read