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Why I Hate Valentine’s Day Celebrations And So Should All Of You
Let me start by saying that I am pro-love. I believe we should show love. I believe I should show love to my parents and to my daughters. I believe I should love my wife and love my neighbor — even if I’m careful to show those last two in different ways (for which I…
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Opinion Young Jews Are Actually Winning The Generational War Over Israel
Ever since the late 1960s, Israel has been a defining feature of American Jewish identity. But for the first time in fifty years, this is changing. Wedge issues have been alienating liberal Jews from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hawkish, pro-Orthodox, pro-settlement platform, issues like prayer accommodations for Reform and Conservative Jews at the Western Wall…
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Opinion Did Saturday’s Clash Prove Iran Deal Skeptics Right?
The clash between Israel and Iran on February 10, following the incursion into Israel’s airspace of an advanced Iranian UAV operated by Iran from Syria, was a new and very worrying development. It signaled the first time that Iran challenged Israel directly and militarily, and from Syrian territory. As far as Israel is concerned, this…
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Opinion How Trump’s Refusal To Confront Russia May End Up Hurting Israel
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! The frightening flare-up involving Syria and Iran this past weekend was not just some far away event that concerns only those of us worried about Israel’s security on its volatile northern border. It…
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Opinion It’s Putin’s World. Netanyahu’s Just Living In It.
In the quarter century that has elapsed since the end of the Cold War, Israel has in many ways gained an independence and freedom of action that it did not enjoy during its earlier history. Aside from being the unparalleled military power in the Middle East, Israel and its Arab neighbors are no longer proxies…
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Opinion Is Shmuley Boteach Attacking Qatar Trip Because He Wasn’t Invited?
This piece has been updated to include a statement by Shmuley Boteach. America’s right-wing Jewish community has recently been split over a curious question: whether to cozy up to Qatar. After a number of American Jewish Zionist leaders visited the tiny Gulf country rich in gas, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach began denouncing both Qatar and the…
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Opinion Why Putin and Trump Remain Silent On Israel/Iran Flare Up
Saturday, February 10, witnessed a dramatic escalation in Israel’s simmering war to its north. The Israel Air Force shot down an Iranian drone flying provocatively in Israeli airspace. The IAF then bombed Iran’s drone base deep inside Syria. Then an Israeli F-16 was downed by Syrian missiles. In response, the IAF proceeded to destroy a…
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Opinion Did Iran Just Start A War With Israel?
In the early hours of Saturday, for the first time, Iran infiltrated Israel with a drone. The drone, an advanced model with stealth capabilities, penetrated into Israel through the border from Jordan. It was intercepted after about a minute and a half in Israeli territory by an Apache attack helicopter. In the immediate aftermath, the…
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Letters Orthodox Jews Are The Victims – Not The Perpetrators – Of White Nationalism
There are various problems and concerning trends in Orthodox (and non-Orthodox) Jewish communities. Fortunately, to the best of my knowledge, White Nationalism is not one of them. However, a recent article written by Elad Nehorai in this space argued that “White Nationalist language is infiltrating our public spaces” and “the philosophy of white nationalism that…
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Letters No, Orthodox Jews Are Not White Supremacists — And Neither Is Trump
Hostility toward Judaism, Jewish observance and observant Jews has always been a central part of anti-Semitism. Sadly, it doesn’t always come from non-Jews, as Eli Steinberg noted recently in these pages, in an op-ed called “Anti-Orthodox Is the New Anti-Semitism.” Steinberg could have been referring to another opinion piece which emerged but two days earlier,…
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Opinion Netanyahu’s Hatred Of Soros Is A Rejection Of Diaspora Jews
On Thursday, the British tabloid “The Telegraph” ran a cover story featuring a picture of George Soros with the headline “Man who ‘broke the Bank of England’ backing secret plot to thwart Brexit.” The outrage against the headline’s anti-Semitic portrayal of a globalist anti-patriotic Jewish banker’s secretive plot was swift and effective. But The Telegraph’s…
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