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  Zioness Is Here To Stay, So Get Used To Us

  You know a three-month old movement is doing something right when it’s been maligned by both neo-Nazis and far-left anti-Semites. Since we launched in mid-August in response to the explicit exclusion of Zionist progressives from social justice movements, Zioness has been hit from all sides. At the Chicago Dyke March, our maiden voyage, we marched…

  By Amanda Berman

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  Should Journalists Cover Neo-Nazis Like Anyone Else?

  Have Your Say is your chance to tell us what you think. Comment below or on Facebook and let us know what you think about the question posed in the headline.

  By Forward Staff Nov 27, 2017 | < 1 min read
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  The ACLU’s Frivolous Lawsuit Against East Ramapo Hurts Children

  A few weeks ago, the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) filed a lawsuit against the East Ramapo School District. It’s certainly not the first the embattled district has faced. The school board — made up of nine positions that residents of the district run for and vote for — has a significant quotient of…

  By Joel Petlin Nov 27, 2017 | 3 min read

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  Why Is Israel’s Top Diplomat Attacking American Jews?

  Israel was thrown into an uproar on Thursday, complete with screaming headlines and threats of a cabinet shakeup, over a crisis in the Jewish state’s relationship with the American Jewish community. Ironically, most American Jews didn’t hear they had a crisis. It was Thanksgiving, Jewish agencies were shut down and it wasn’t on the local…

  By J.J. Goldberg Nov 24, 2017 | 4 min read
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  Many ‘Sephardic’ Jews Aren’t Actually Sephardic

  During my childhood in the 1960s and 70s in the USSR, the only books published about Jews were ideological works that criticized Zionism, Israel and what the Soviets considered the “national Jewish mentality.” As you might imagine, thanks to these books, many of us had a totally distorted picture of our true origins as Jews….

  By Alexander Beider Nov 23, 2017 | 5 min read
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  Why Jews Especially Should Love Thanksgiving

  We tend to forget that the pilgrims who landed on Plymouth Rock were immigrants. And since then America has been a land of arrivals, where peoples of different origins joined together to build a republic. My ancestors became part of this story in the early 1900s when Jews from Europe found their way to the…

  By Steve Greenberg Nov 23, 2017 | 5 min read
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  Actually, The Intifadas Were Nonviolent Uprisings, Too

  Dear Editor, In your interesting article on P is for Palestine, you described the First and Second Intifadas as violent uprisings. They were also nonviolent. Indeed, Palestinians have long engaged in the nonviolent protest of Zionism, from petitioning the King Crane Commission to engaging in BDS. In the First Intifada, experts in nonviolent, non-cooperation such…

  By Edward Curtis Nov 22, 2017 | < 1 min read
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  Why Opposing BDS Is Not Un-American

  Dear Editor, In his op-ed on legislation that counters the BDS movement, JStreet’s Jeremy Ben-Ami gets it right when he describes the odious BDS movement, but wrong when he describes legislation that responds to it. Ben-Ami is correct to note the “one-sided and unbalanced politics” that inform the BDS movement and its failure to acknowledge…

  By William C. Daroff Nov 22, 2017 | 2 min read
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  Why Are Leftists In Israel Supporting A Man Who Beat A Palestinian Up?

  For the past few days, Israeli media and social networks have been abuzz with a bizarre story that is laying waste to stereotypes. In a strange twist, the brouhaha has the far left defending a soldier who allegedly beat a Palestinian to a bloody pulp, while the center and right appear to support the State…

  By Daniel Kohn Nov 22, 2017 | 5 min read
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  Actually, Steve Bannon Is Not An Anti-Semite. He’s Something Worse.

  Last week in The New York Times, columnist Bret Stephens did something brave: He called the Zionist Organization of America’s decision to host Steve Bannon at its gala “a disgrace.” Stephens’s condemnation was brave because ZOA enjoys considerable support in the hawkish Zionist circles in which he travels. Its gala featured, in addition to Bannon,…

  By Peter Beinart Nov 22, 2017 | 4 min read
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  We Asked Readers If They Thought Franken Should Resign. Here’s What They Said.

  As Democratic leaders grapple with what to do with Senator Al Franken following accusations of sexual misconduct, Forward readers are polarized on the question of whether he should resign or not. In a poll conducted on the Forward’s Twitter account, 51% of Forward’s followers said Franken should resign immediately. 23% believed Franken shouldn’t, with another…

  By Steven Davidson Nov 21, 2017 | 2 min read