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  Trump’s Jews Are A Shonda For Di Goyim

  My first job in journalism was at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a venerable, century-old newswire which provides coverage to Jewish papers around the world. As a jack-of-all trades intern, one of my jobs was to monitor our web traffic. To my surprise, I found that one of our top referrers was frequently Stormfront.org, a neo-Nazi…

  By Talia Lavin

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  No, Sephardic Pronunciation Is Not More ‘Correct’ Than Ashkenazi

  Many people believe that when it comes to the Hebrew language, the Sephardic pronunciation is the correct one. It’s common to hear that this is the reason that modern Israeli Hebrew pronunciation is based on the Sephardic one. People have told me for instance that the phonetics of the Sephardic speech is closer to the…

  By Alexander Beider Apr 13, 2018 | 4 min read
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  Millions Of Palestinians Marching To ‘Return’ To Israel Is Not Peaceful

  Just an easy hour’s drive south along the Mediterranean coast from where I live, Gaza’s Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar encouraged a crowd of protesters gathering last Friday for the supposedly peaceful “Great March of Return” near the border with Israel: “We will uproot the borders, we will pluck out their hearts, and we will pray…

  By Petra Marquardt-Bigman Apr 13, 2018 | 4 min read

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  Trump Loves Jews Like Cohen And Dershowitz — For All The Wrong Reasons

  At a conference on religion about 15 years ago, the journalist Franklin Foer made this witty observation: “Philo-Semites are anti-Semites who like Jews.” Little could Foer have imagined that he would be describing Donald Trump as President. We now have in the White House a man with a confounding and often contradictory relationship with Jews….

  By Jane Eisner Apr 13, 2018 | 4 min read
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  I Was Pushed To The Back Of A Protest Because I’m A Zionist. Here’s What It Taught Me About Tribalism And Jews

  One evening in November, I found myself standing at the back of a crowd of protesters. It was a protest organized by IfNotNow, the Jewish anti-occupation group, to protest the Zionist Organization of America’s hosting of Steve Bannon at their annual gala. IfNotNow does “not take a unified stance on BDS, Zionism or the question…

  By Elad Nehorai Apr 12, 2018 | 7 min read
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  As Palestinians, We, Too, Must Take Responsibility For Gaza.

  Gaza, again. It’s just 60 kilometers from my home here in Hebron, but harder for me to visit than almost anywhere else on earth. Every time that small strip of land is in the news, I feel the same sense of guilt, anger, helplessness, and most of all: our collective failure. Ten years into the…

  By Huda Abuarquob Apr 12, 2018 | 4 min read
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  Netanyahu’s Use And Abuse Of American Jews: A Review of ‘Bibi’ By Anshel Pfeffer

  BIBI: THE TURBULENT LIFE AND TIMES OF BENJAMIN NETANYAHU By Anshel Pfeffer Basic Books, 432 pages, $32  Early in “Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu,” Anshel Pfeffer’s excellent biography of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the author quotes an anecdote that Netanyahu likes to share. It’s about the time a mob…

  By Batya Ungar-Sargon Apr 11, 2018 | 6 min read
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  Embracing Anti-Semitic Hungarian Leader, Netanyahu Betrays Zionism

  In October 1999, the far-right Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) won over 27% of the national vote in parliamentary elections and shortly thereafter entered a governing coalition for the first time. I lived at the time as a visibly Hasidic Jew in Vienna and recall the xenophobic campaign that featured billboards with texts such as, “We…

  By Joshua Shanes Apr 10, 2018 | 4 min read
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  Why An Israeli Soldier Cheered The Shooting Of An Unarmed Palestinian

  On Monday a two-minute video of an Israeli soldier shooting a Palestinian man in Gaza went viral. In the video, you can hear the soldier receive an order to aim and shoot; then there is a loud “crack,” when he takes the shot, and as soon as he sees his target fall, he lets out…

  By Lisa Goldman Apr 10, 2018 | 5 min read
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  Yeshivas Must Meet Basic Education Standards — It’s The American Way

  When I worked at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia a decade ago, I delighted in giving tours around the permanent exhibition, especially the part that highlighted the different things a U.S. citizen can, and in some cases should, do. Serve on a jury. Serve in the military. Vote. Run for office. It was an…

  By Jane Eisner Apr 10, 2018 | 3 min read
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  Are Ultra-Orthodox Yeshivas Bad For Democracy?

  Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! When I worked at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia a decade ago, I delighted in giving tours around the permanent exhibition, especially the part that highlighted the different things a U.S. citizen…

  By Jane Eisner Apr 10, 2018 | 5 min read