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  How do we be Jewish after a year of Trump’s America?

  Most American Jews awakened on Nov. 9, 2016, in a profound state of shock, fury, fear, bewilderment and disillusionment. That is not a partisan statement. It is a political fact. Donald Trump was passionately opposed by most American Jews. Trump’s administration finds even fewer supporters among them. What happened a year ago was unlike any…

  By Jane Eisner

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  They Built A Public Pool Over The Site Of Kristallnacht — So I Danced In It

  When my good friends picked me up at the Freiburg train station this past summer, they told me they had bad news: The site of the old Synagogue, burnt to the ground during the Holocaust, had been turned into a wading pool. Just the week before, the mayor and city council had presided over the…

  By Yehuda Hyman Nov 6, 2017 | 5 min read
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  We Are the Jews of Uganda. This Is Our Story.

  My name is Mugoya Shadrach Levi. I am a second-year rabbinical student and the spiritual leader of the Jewish community of Namutumba in eastern Uganda. Until quite recently, the presence of Jews in my country was only known to a small number of outsiders. The Jews of Uganda, now widely known by their Luganda name,…

  By Mugoya Shadrach Levi and Edward Rensin Nov 6, 2017 | 5 min read

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  A Modest Proposal: All Palestinians Should Convert to Judaism

  Now that the dust has settled on the commemoration of the Balfour Declaration’s centenary, Israel still has a problem. It has established a state in what was Mandate Palestine. But it’s struggling to cement its control over the whole of the land, even though, since 1967, it has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into…

  By Nadia Hijab Nov 5, 2017 | 3 min read
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  Take It From A British Jew: Anti-Zionism Leads To Anti-Semitism

  This week, Nigel Farage, the right wing politician who instigated Brexit, said in an interview that the “Jewish lobby” should worry Americans more than the Russians. But we British Jews are used to getting it from all sides, and left-wing anti-Semitism has recently been much more prominent than the right-wing variety. Two years ago, Jeremy…

  By Dave Rich Nov 2, 2017 | 4 min read
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  Israel: Take Note — The NYPD Didn’t Kill Manhattan Terrorist

  I watched in horror along with the rest of the world as a terror attack unfolded in lower Manhattan on Tuesday, October 31. A 29-year-old from Uzbekistan named Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov intentionally plowed into bicyclists and pedestrians before finally crashing into a school bus and brandishing two imitation firearms. Over the next hour, fatalities began…

  By Issa Amro Nov 2, 2017 | 4 min read
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  How Trump’s Bumbling And Netanyahu’s Cunning Landed Them In The Same Place

  It’s hard not to notice the similarities between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. Critics love to comment on the two men’s shared resume of defiant nationalism, open warfare with the press, testy relations with other Western leaders and voluble contempt for their liberal opposition. There’s a crucial difference, of course: One of them is a…

  By J.J. Goldberg Nov 2, 2017 | 4 min read
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  What can America learn from Israel about lone wolf attacks?

  It was in September 2014 that Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, a senior leader of the Islamic State group, propagated via internet the following iconic advice for attacking Westerners: “If you are not able to find an IED (improvised explosive device) or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash…

  By Yossi Alpher Nov 1, 2017 | 3 min read
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  It’s time to admit that Arthur Balfour was a white supremacist — and an anti-Semite, too

  A century ago, 67 words changed the course of history in the Middle East. In a statement that could fit into two tweets, Arthur Balfour, then the British Foreign Secretary, announced that the British government would support establishing a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. One hundred years later, the profound legacy of…

  By Yousef Munayyer Nov 1, 2017 | 4 min read
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  Trump’s double standard for New York and Las Vegas attacks threatens America’s safety

  How can you truly measure the horror of a terror attack? You can’t. One life lost that way is one life too many. But not for Donald Trump. When a man murders eight people and injures almost a dozen others in Manhattan, and then shouts “God is great!” in Arabic, the president waited only hours…

  By Jane Eisner Nov 1, 2017 | 3 min read
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  Yes, that cartoon of me was anti-Semitic

  When the official newspaper of Berkeley published a color caricature of me as a spider-like creature with one leg stomping on a Palestinian child and another holding an IDF soldier spilling the blood of an unarmed Palestinian, there was universal condemnation of what was widely seen as a throwback to the anti-Semitic imagery of the…

  By Alan Dershowitz Oct 31, 2017 | 3 min read