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Family Separation Isn’t The Holocaust. But It’s Evil Enough To Warrant The Comparison
“Other governments have separated mothers and children,” the former CIA director Michael Hayden wrote above a black-and-white photograph of the railways tracks leading toward the entrance of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Hayden is perhaps the most high-profile but by no means the only person in recent days to have reached for the Holocaust in order to condemn the…
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Letters Why Making Stephen Miller An Outcast In The Jewish World Makes A Difference To His Victims
In her June 18 piece, “Jews Should Disown Stephen Miller Over Trump’s Family Separation Disgrace,” Jane Eisner asks, “should the American Jewish community disown Stephen Miller?” Jewish leaders and thousands of Jewish activists have already shared their answer and it is a resounding yes. This February, more than 17 Jewish organizations signed a letter authored…
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Opinion Yes, You Should Be Comparing Trump to Hitler
For those of us who thought the Trump administration had lost its power to shock us, this week has been a rude awakening. From images of caged migrant children sleeping under space blankets to parents facing deportation proceedings alone, the federal government’s forcible separation of families at the border has shocked Americans’ consciences in a…
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Opinion I Know The Terror Migrant Children Face — I Was 9 When My Family Fled The Soviet Union
The awful night my family crossed the Soviet border is still seared in my mind. Hours of threats and violent searches had pushed us to the edge. I stared at the guards with machine guns. My father stared at the guard captain who was deciding our fate. But the rest of my family was looking…
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Opinion How to Keep The Two State Solution Alive When No One Cares
The latest Middle East regional tour by U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt gives rise to rumors that they are on the verge of publishing President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, which they have been working on for over a year. Whatever they decide, it should be based on realism and focused on…
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Opinion Jews Should Disown Stephen Miller Over Trump’s Family Separation Disgrace
Should the American Jewish community disown Stephen Miller? What would that mean? Would it make a difference? Would he even notice? The 32-year-old White House senior policy adviser is in the news once again, this time offering a full-throated endorsement of the Trump administration’s decision to separate families seeking refuge on our southern border. The…
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Opinion Five Years After Pew Study, Where Are We?
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! The Pew Research Center officially released its Portrait of Jewish Americans on Oct. 1, 2013 at a venue in Manhattan. Several of those responsible for the landmark survey spoke, followed by a panel…
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Opinion Commentary’s Race Baiting Of Blacks And Jews Is So 1963. Literally.
A few weeks ago, I chastised journalist and progressive activist Shaun King for perpetuating a false binary between Blacks and Jews that erases my identity as a Black Jew. Just two weeks later, the conservative magazine Commentary did the exact same thing. On Friday, Commentary published a shockingly tone-deaf and inflammatory cover that screamed, “African…
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Opinion Israel Made A Huge Mistake. Trump Is Terrible For The Jews
A recent poll found that three out of four Israelis approve of U.S. President Donald Trump’s handling of U.S.-Israel relations, while nearly 60% of American Jews disapprove of it. In the wake of these results, an Israeli colleague asked me: Is it possible that Israelis are right? That Trump is actually good for Israel? It’s…
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Opinion We’re In A State Of Moral Emergency. Jews Must Join The Fight.
I firmly believe that fighting for the human rights of immigrants and refugees is the moral responsibility of every single U.S. citizen. Recognizing this inalienable truth — that protecting the most vulnerable among us is our collective duty — has never been more urgent. The Jewish story is also one of immigration and of forced…
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Opinion Letter To An Israeli-Jewish Friend
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…
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