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Will Friday’s March In Gaza Achieve Its Goal?
Last year at a conference in Dubai, former US secretary of state John Kerry discussed the Palestinian plight in a way that now seems prescient. He warned of a situation in which Israel faces “40,000 kids marching up to the wall every day with signs saying ‘give us our rights’.” Furthermore, explained Kerry, “I don’t…
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Opinion Anti-Semitism Is Flourishing On The Left. Why Does No One Care?
March has been a rough month for Jews. With a frequency that gave Trump administration departures a run for their money, March was filled with a stream of new reports of political leaders at home and abroad propagating or supporting anti-Semitism. On March 16, as snow hit the nation’s capital, Trayon White Sr., a Democratic…
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Opinion Leave Jeremy Corbyn Alone. He’s The Leader We Young Jews Have Waited For.
I first voted in a UK General Election in 2005, the year after I left school. I remember various adults telling me grand things about democracy and its history in this great liberal nation. I remember walking into my local voting station, feeling very grown up, putting my X on the ballot paper and checking…
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Opinion If You Think Jews Don’t ‘Stand Against Hate,’ You’re Not Talking To Jewish Women
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! Jonathan Weisman, the deputy Washington editor of the New York Times, has just published a book about the rise of anti-Semitism in America, and he may be coming to a venue near you…
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Opinion Dear John Bolton: 3 Things Israel Needs From You
Ambassador John Bolton, Mazal Tov on your new appointment as National Security Advisor. From Israel, I would like to welcome you to your prestigious and influential position. Your success will most certainly be our success. As you make your first steps into the White House, we wish you good wisdom, sound advice and clear view….
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Opinion It’s Time For Jewish Communities To Stop Investing In The Police
Growing up, I remember regularly seeing cops at the door of my synagogue and patrolling in their police cars outside. My family and older members of the synagogue explained that our congregation hired the police to patrol during events due to past cases of anti-Semitism at other synagogues, like bomb threats and vandalism. “The police…
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Opinion Actually, Jews Do Control The Weather
Last week, a D.C. Councilman named Trayon White took to Facebook to claim that the Rothschilds control the climate. That European business dynasty has for many years been the stand-in for Jews in the minds of anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists who see the Jewish family empire, and by extension Jews in general, as pulling the strings…
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Opinion What Americans – And Israelis – Don’t Understand About The IDF
Growing up in an American Jewish community, Israeli soldiers were superheroes. Israel’s miraculous victory against all odds in the Six-Day War cemented the image of the Israeli as the New Jew, concretized in the avatar of the Israeli soldier, who was brave, fierce, battle-hardened and nearly invincible. The Israeli soldier was a creature of myth….
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Opinion I Suffered Anti-Semitism In Poland. Why Won’t Netanyahu Condemn It?
The Israeli Foreign Ministry held its sixth annual Global Forum for Combatting Anti-Semitism this week in Jerusalem. As part of the event, Natan Sharansky, the Soviet refusenik turned Israeli politician, made a bold claim against a growing problem. “There are those who would want to make common cause with far-right, racist parties in Europe because…
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Opinion Twitter Is Today’s Talmud. Which Is Why Men Suck At Following Women.
Over the past few days, Facebook has seen a righteous backlash for its promiscuous use of data, hoovering up our phone numbers, our predilections and our loved ones’ birthdays like so many profitable nuggets of ore for their data-mining operation. But over the past few years, much of the surging and chaotic energy of social…
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Letters The Wrong Way To Stand Up For African Migrants In Israel
Dear Editor, I’m writing regarding David Sheen’s opinion piece recently published in The Forward. Sheen’s piece omits any mention of the fact that on March 15th, Israel’s High Court issued an order freezing the forced deportation of African asylum seekers. On March 20th, the High Court clarified that the order is not limited in time…
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