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Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! There’s no lack of depressing stories about Jews in the news these days — Jared Kushner’s meltdown, Benjamin Netanyahu’s continuing legal woes, the great Oscar snub — but I’ll get to those later….
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Opinion ADL Says Anti-Semitism Is Rising. Students Disagree.
The Anti-Defamation League recently released the results of its annual anti-Semitism audit. The findings were staggering. Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States surged nearly 60% this past year, driven in part by an increase in such cases in schools and on college campuses. ADL found 1,986 cases of harassment, vandalism or physical assaults against Jews…
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Opinion It’s Time For AIPAC To Register As A Foreign Agent
This weekend, 18,000 Americans from all over the country are coming to Washington to participate in the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference. AIPAC is one of the leading forces behind the Israel lobby, joined in recent years by the ascending Christians United for Israel. Other Jewish “pro-Israel” organizations are niche affairs, representing…
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Opinion Memo To The Left: Denounce Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan
The Anti-Defamation League recently released the results of its annual anti-Semitism audit. It found that anti-Semitic incidents in the United States surged nearly 60% this past year. These results, though dismaying, are surprising only if you’ve been living under a rock. From the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to the White House hiring…
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Opinion Is Jared Kushner’s Leap To Power A Jewish Success Story — Or A Tragedy?
Jared Kushner is in the news again. This week, The New York Times reported that, in his role as a White House adviser, he met with financiers who went on to invest in the family real estate business, in which he retains a large stake. Not to be outdone, The Washington Post reported that foreign…
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Opinion Woody Allen’s Innocence Should Be A Feminist Cause
The push to declare that #TimesUp for Woody Allen has been gaining traction. Jeff Daniels, who starred in Allen’s 1985 film “Purple Rose of Cairo,” and Peter Sarsgaard, who appeared in “Blue Jasmine,” have just joined the list of actors publicly siding with his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow, who has called for Allen’s shunning based…
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Opinion Sorry, Black Panther Is Not About Zionism
Black Panther is a remarkable movie. The film narrates the origin story of the Marvel superhero known as Black Panther, who hails from the never-colonized mythical African nation of Wakanda. It’s a country rich in unparalleled resources and technology where women play key roles in every success. The plot of the film takes off when…
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Opinion What Israel And Poland Are Really Fighting Over
Earlier this month at the Munich Security Council, Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman caused a stir when he confronted Poland’s prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki. Poland has been grappling with the fallout of a controversial new law making it a crime to blame Poland for Nazi crimes, and in the question-and-answer session of a panel discussion, Bergman…
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Opinion Why John Podhoretz Gets The Gun Reform Argument Totally Wrong
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! Ever since we had a particularly unpleasant exchange at the 92Y some years ago, I have tried to stay clear of John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine and columnist for the New York…
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Opinion The Cynical Scare Tactics Won’t Prevent Gun Control Forever
Ever since we had a particularly unpleasant exchange at the 92Y some years ago, I have tried to stay clear of John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine and columnist for the New York Post. But occasionally he writes something that raises a provocative question worth tackling, and his column last Friday did just that. Are…
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Opinion Diaspora Philanthropy To Israel Is No Longer A One Way Street
I follow Anshel Pfeffer’s column in Haaretz with assiduity. I usually find his mordant analyses profound and insightful. But I can’t help but take exception to his recent article, “Help Israel. Stop Giving It Money.” Pfeffer makes a bizarre intellectual summersault to link the bribery allegations against Prime Minister Netanyahu with the corrupting influence that…
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