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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

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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
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  The Jewish Community Must Oppose Trump’s Muslim Ban

  The Supreme Court of the United States ruled today to uphold the Trump administration’s travel ban targeting Muslim-majority countries. The current version suspends and restricts entry for immigrants, refugees and even visa holders from Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Iran, North Korea and Venezuela; the latter two countries were added after the ban was contested in…

  By Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg Jun 26, 2018 | 3 min read
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  Why The Orthodox Hate ‘Tikkun Olam’

  Jonathan Neumann is furious at Liberal Judaism and I understand why. It was not so long ago that I was angry at them as well. Sadly, though, his anger makes him commit an infraction that is not so different from the transgression that incites his own righteous indignation. He lacerates his political adversaries for misusing…

  By Ysoscher Katz Jun 26, 2018 | 4 min read
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  Intermarriage Fear-Mongering Hides The Real Threat To Jews

  At a moment in which liberal leaning American Jews — that is to say, the vast majority of American Jews — are feeling dismay at the coziness of fellow demagogues Trump and Netanyahu, the appointment of Labor leader Isaac Herzog to lead the Jewish Agency (in a sharp break with tradition, in which the prime…

  By Rokhl Kafrissen Jun 26, 2018 | 5 min read