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Have Your Say: How Is President Trump Handling Nuclear Deals With Iran And North Korea?
Have Your Say is your chance to tell us what you think. Tell us in the comments below or on Facebook and let us know what you think about the question posed in the headline.
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Opinion 24 Yiddish Curses For Jared Kushner Now That He Has A Security Clearance
Editor’s note: The following is a satirical piece. Dear Jared, Mazel tov on finally getting your security clearance after 18 months of working in the administration and despite myriad conflicts of interest! When I told my bubbe about it, she began to curse in Yiddish — and asked me to translate her thoughts. May every…
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Letters Fort Campbell Proudly Serves Its Jewish Residents
How do we serve the spiritual needs of our men and women in uniform? As a Navy veteran and a rabbi, it is a question I struggle with every day. When we think about the role of religion in the military we often think of it in the context of death or illness —especially this…
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Opinion How The Myth Of The ‘Good Jew’ Hurts Us All
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any conflict between Israelis and Palestinians will be turned into a battle amongst American Jews to prove who is — and isn’t — a “good Jew.” My social media feed is saturated with Jewish friends and colleagues declaring who fits into this category, and it is generally those…
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Opinion My Viral Tweet About Muslims Wearing Kippahs Didn’t Show The Whole Truth
When we see an image that stirs something deep inside of us, we can’t help but share it with the world. There is just something about a man who lets another man fall asleep on him on the subway that is just so utterly sweet and beautiful. It awakens something deep inside of us, deep…
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Opinion Our Synagogue’s Custodian Is A Member Of Our Family – And ICE Just Deported Him
A week before the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer told him he was going to a detention facility, Armando, our synagogue’s custodian for two decades, had come in to work on President’s Day to be there for my family as we held a small service to celebrate my son’s upcoming bar mitzvah. Afterwards, as we…
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Opinion Aaron Schlossberg Goes Viral — And Reminds Us To Respect Others
Welcome to a special abbreviated edition of Jane Looking Forward. For those of you who celebrated, I hope you had a lovely and meaningful Shavuot. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! A man walks into a New York restaurant. He hears workers speaking Spanish. He…
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Letters Scott Wallace Says He Is ‘J Street Democrat’ — And Opposes BDS
To the editor, I was surprised and disappointed to see that the Forward published an article incorrectly characterizing me as a supporter of the BDS movement. I do not support the BDS movement and never have. I disavow it. The grants in question were made from an account in the foundation that was assigned to…
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Opinion Violent Anti-Semitism Is Gripping Ukraine — And The Government Is Standing Idly By
A wave of anti-Semitism has swept over Ukraine. In the past three weeks alone, a far-right leader publicly called for cleansing Ukraine of zhidi (a slur equivalent to “kike”); a Holocaust memorial in Ternopil was bombed; hundreds marched through Lviv, in honor of an SS unit, complete with Nazi salutes; “Death to Zhidi” graffiti was…
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Letters Deborah Lipstadt On Her Comments About Jordan Peterson
To the Forward: Last week Ari Feldman interviewed me for “Is Jordan Peterson Enabling Jew Hatred?” When Feldman contacted me, I explicitly told him that I had never read Peterson’s work and knew very little about him. Throughout the interview, I repeated that point and refused to offer any assessment of the work itself because…
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Opinion What’s Next After Bloodshed In Gaza?
You can find some of our other opinions about the conflict in Gaza here and here. Sixty Palestinians in Gaza were killed by Israel in one day this week, along with over 2,400 injured. As each day passes, the public justifications for their deaths have grown louder and louder: that the killed were members of…
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