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  My play was Just canceled because I’m the wrong kind of Jew

  I felt so hopeful when the American Jewish Historical Society said they wanted to mount a performance of my new play, “Rubble Rubble.” As a Jewish anti-Zionist playwright in a politically conservative Jewish institutional landscape, I have grown accustomed to feeling unwelcome in Jewish spaces. I am not the only one. Any Jew who opposes…

  By Dan Fishback

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  On The Jewish Community’s Shameful Silence About Israel’s Arms To Myanmar

  Three weeks ago, an organization called JACOB — the Jewish Alliance of Concern Over Burma — co-sponsored a rally in front of the United Nations. The reason: The government of Myanmar (Burma’s current name) is slaughtering its Muslim minority, the Rohingya, on a vast scale. As many as 400,000 Rohingya have fled their homes. Forty…

  By Peter Beinart Oct 11, 2017 | 3 min read
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  Why Jews Especially Should Respect Trump’s Birth Control Rollback

  Last week, the Trump administration decided to rollback the 2010 Obamacare mandate on birth control, which required employers to cover birth control as part of their healthcare plans. According to the new rules from the Trump Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services, employers can now request exemptions from providing birth control if doing so…

  By Bethany Mandel Oct 10, 2017 | 3 min read

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• Nora Berman For new parents, the aid crisis in Gaza is hitting hard

  

• Dan Perry Don’t be grateful two hostages’ bodies were recovered. Be furious.

  

• Emily Tamkin The two things I fear most after the horrifying attack on Jews in Boulder

  

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  What Just Happened to Jemele Hill Happened to Me — Over Israel

  Jemele Hill, an ESPN reporter, has been feuding with Donald Trump on Twitter for the better part of a month. It began early in September when Hill tweeted, Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists. — Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 11, 2017 In response, the White House…

  By Steven Salaita Oct 10, 2017 | 4 min read
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  Stephen Walt Is Walking Back his Israel Lobby Theory Beyond Recognition

  Stephen Walt’s response to our article critiquing his attempt to show how recent history has proven his and John Mearsheimer’s writings on the Israel Lobby accuses us of attacking strawmen without offering a coherent restatement of his own thesis. Our core claim is that Walt has failed to show how the Israel Lobby—a loose group…

  By Mitchel Hochberg and Dennis Ross Oct 10, 2017 | 5 min read
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  It’s Time To Dispense With The Vanity Spending In Orthodox Communities

  This time of year you might spy me in the supermarket smiling in the direction of the guy stocking the produce bins. If you do, know that I’m imagining what he would think if he knew that a fruit not terribly unlike the 50-cent lemons he’s handling recently commanded up to a couple hundred dollars…

  Oct 10, 2017 | 4 min read
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  No, Columbus Was Not Jewish — And Neither Is Columbus Day

  Dear Editor, I was disappointed, shocked, and angered to find an article written in the Forward that attempted to glorify and Judaize Christopher Columbus. Theories do exist that Columbus was Jewish, but there has been no conclusive evidence, and it is one among many theories of the explorer’s origins. In his article “The ‘Mystery’ of…

  By MItchell Gould Oct 9, 2017 | 3 min read
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  No, Justin Trudeau Is Not a Holocaust Denier

  These days, there is plenty in the world to spark outrage. So when a genuine slip-up occurs that is swiftly corrected and others try to make political hay out of it, we call foul. Such is the case with the wild accusations being leveled against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding the omission of the…

  By Mira Sucharov and Bernie Farber Oct 9, 2017 | 3 min read
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  The New York Times Just Explained Why The Forward Matters So Much

  It’s rare for journalists to be the subject of a news story. We’re usually the ones asking the questions, framing the narrative, finding the edge, telling it our way. So it was with excitement but some trepidation last night that I began to read the online version of a New York Times story about The…

  By Jane Eisner Oct 9, 2017 | 2 min read
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  The 6 Worst Things We Learned About Jared Kushner From This Expose

  In a scathing piece for the Columbia Journal Review, Kyle Pope details his tenure working under Jared Kushner as editor in chief of the New York Observer. Pope, who is now editor in chief and publisher at the CJR, describes Kushner as holding a deep-seated disregard for journalism and its potential use for any purpose…

  By Steven Davidson Oct 9, 2017 | 3 min read
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  Jane Looking Forward: Two Jews Make (Bad) News, The Forward Gets Into The Gray Lady

  Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! There were two outstanding pieces of journalism published last week in which the lead characters were Jewish. As a journalist, this made me proud. As a Jew, it left me disgusted. Writing in…

  By Jane Eisner Oct 9, 2017 | 3 min read