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The Left Only Cares About Palestinians When It Can Blame Israel
For the past two weeks, horrifying images of Palestinians being murdered have surfaced on social media. Jets have dropped bombs, sending flames and black smoke into the air, followed by helicopters dropping improvised and unguided barrel bombs. On the ground, in the besieged Palestinian camp, buildings collapsed burying civilians alive underneath them. Those who have…
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Opinion Charles Bronfman: On Israel’s Missing Religious Tolerance
The following is a commencement address given at the Hebrew Union College. President Pankin, Chairman Berger, Chancellor Emeritus Ellenson, Chairman Messinger, Rabbi Davidson, Chairman Streiker, Deans, Faculty, family, friends, and most importantly, graduates: I am grateful for your gracious invitation and am honored to be addressing you today. With your permission, allow me to recall…
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Letters Letter | What Peter Beinart Leaves Out
Dear Editor, Peter Beinart regularly offers intelligent, nuanced, moral and reflective analysis of the tragic Israel-Palestinian conflict. His thoughts always are worth considering. Beinart’s disdain for Netanyahu and his ruling coalition is evident. And appropriate. The Likud government is uber nationalist, intolerant of dissent, hostile to civil liberties and democratic values, corrupt, bigoted, dishonest and…
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Opinion Why States Like New Jersey Should Give Yeshivas Money
Over the past month, the New Jersey Supreme Court has twice waded into the treacherous waters of church-state relations, attempting to provide some guidance as to when religious institutions can be excluded from government funding programs. At stake is a clash between deep-seated American constitutional commitments—a battle ultimately between the constitutional value of church-state separation,…
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Opinion Trump Is Going to Nix the Iran Deal. Now What?
As a proud veteran of the Obama Administration, I don’t think it surprises anyone that I am a supporter of the Iran nuclear deal. It was not a perfect deal — there was no such thing — but it removed key materials and infrastructure from Iran’s possession and imposed an intrusive monitoring regime, ensuring that…
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Opinion Your California Anti-Semite Is A Hoax. Typical Liberals.
Dear Editor, I wanted to call attention to your recent article entitled “Top Republican In California Senate Race Called For Government ‘Free From Jews’” dated April 29th. I found it to be quite odd. “The top challenger to California Sen. Dianne Feinstein in her upcoming re-election campaign is a candidate who has repeatedly espoused anti-Semitism…
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Letters A Letter From Pew Research On Our Israel Polling
Laura E. Adkins discusses in her April 29 opinion piece (Almost) Everything You Knew About The Polls And Israel Is Wrong recent Pew Research Center and Gallup findings that examine public opinion towards Israel and the Palestinians. Ms. Adkins thoughtfully examines several possible reasons, including differences in question wording, for why the two surveys got…
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Letters Letter: American Jews Need To Stop Telling Israelis What Is Right And Wrong
Dear Editor, As a Jewish publication, I’m really disgusted by the large number of anti-Israel opinion pieces which appear in the Forward. These articles seem to be the overwhelming majority. I don’t care for Jews who live safely outside of Israel, telling Israelis what is wrong with us and our state. Come, put your life…
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Opinion Abbas’s Shameful Anti-Semitic Comments Remind Me Of Netanyahu
Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, delivered a disgusting, virulently anti-Semitic speech this week in which he blamed the Holocaust on the “social behavior” and financial dealings of Germany’s Jews. Abbas was appropriately and roundly criticized by American Jewish leaders and Israeli politicians, with the most vociferous castigation coming from Binyamin Netanyahu, who called upon the…
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Opinion Netanyahu’s Speech Proves What We Knew All Along — And That Changes Everything
Make no mistake: the Iranian archives that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently presented to the world are very important. Maybe the information we have seen so far is not new, although there is a multitude of documents that we might still hear about. But it comes straight from the horse’s mouth. These are Iranian…
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Opinion What ADL Should Learn From The Starbucks Debacle
Last month, two black men waiting in a Starbucks in Philadelphia were arrested for the new crime of Waiting While Black. Shortly thereafter, Starbucks announced that it would undertake anti-bias training to ensure this did not happen again — which was good. The plan is to close all 8,000+ of their locations on May 29th…
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