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  Can You Be A Zionist And Fight For Racial Justice?

  To the Editor: Unfortunately I was not able to go to the March for Racial Justice on Sunday, but I did read the article discussing the role of Zionists in fighting racism. Although I do not wish to paint all Zionists with the brush of universal racism or deny that some may oppose anti-black or…

  By Ellen Isaacs

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  Smearing Linda Sarsour Is The Opposite Of Fighting For Racial Justice

  Linda Sarsour is many things. As she often introduces herself, she’s unapologetically Muslim-American, Palestinian-American and from Brooklyn, New York. And she’s also a critical leader in the fight against all forms of oppression, including anti-Semitism. Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), of which I am the Deputy Director, recently released an anthology called On Antisemitism. In…

  By Alissa Wise Oct 4, 2017 | 3 min read
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  Bertrand Russell: Are Old Men Fit To Rule The World?

  This article was published in English-language supplement of the Forverts on September 10, 1927. Ever since, at the age of fifteen, I read “” in an unexpurgated edition, I have found it difficult not to see men as Yahoos. Especially difficult it is when the men are old. It is a well—known fact that many…

  By Bertrand Russell Oct 4, 2017 | 5 min read

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  The Literary Intermarriage Between Bertrand Russell And The Forward

  Bertrand Russell wrote 51 articles for the English-language supplement of the Jewish Daily Forward—a significant output, even for a writer so prolific. The association was productive but short lived, spanning just four-and-a-half unsettled years of inter-war history. His first submission, in May 1926 attacked the British Government’s handling of a bitter labour dispute that culminated…

  By Andrew G. Bone Oct 4, 2017 | 3 min read
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  7 Tips For Talking To People You Disagree With In The Age Of Trump

  In times of peril and uncertainty, there’s no greater threat to a democratic society than the breakdown in civil dialogue. A polarized society, unable to air its differences and seek common ground, fails the most basic test of democracy; a society without trust is a society that cannot make decisions. Whether the task before us…

  By J.J. Goldberg Oct 4, 2017 | 9 min read
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  Jane Looking Forward: Las Vegas Heartbreak, What Jared Kushner Means, And More

  Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward on this somber Monday. If someone sent you this weekly newsletter to you, please subscribe here. We need to stay connected, now more than ever. Once again, America awakened to news this morning of another horrific mass shooting, this time in Las Vegas, this time at a scale once…

  By Jane Eisner Oct 3, 2017 | 3 min read
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  Stephen Walt Is Still Wrong About The ‘Israel Lobby’

  In a new article published in The Forward, Stephen Walt claims that time has proved his and John Mearsheimer’s writings on the Israel lobby correct. Ten years ago, they wrote that a loose network of pro-Israel political and policy organizations negatively influence U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East. Yet, Walt’s efforts to show how…

  By Mitchel Hochberg and Dennis Ross Oct 3, 2017 | 4 min read
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  For Shame: These Jewish Lawmakers Take Money From The NRA

  Just four months ago, Forward editor-in-chief Jane Eisner penned this plea for action against gun violence. Her words seem all the more prescient now that another deadly shooting has erupted — this time at a high school in the heart of south Florida’s Jewish community. As is its custom, the National Rifle Association has gone…

  By Jane Eisner Oct 3, 2017 | 2 min read
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  Practice What You Preach, Linda Sarsour

  Sunday’s New York March for Racial Justice was devoted to improving race relations, combating mass incarceration and police brutality, and promoting the value of diversity in politics and society. Nevertheless, Linda Sarsour used it as an opportunity to demonize Zionists. In so doing, Sarsour not only alienated a group of Jews anxious to be part…

  By Emily Shire Oct 3, 2017 | 4 min read
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  Is Communism Worse Than Nazism?

  In the new normal of 2017, in which far-right and far-left militants clash openly in America’s public square, a contentious 20th century debate is newly relevant: is the extreme left as dangerous and repugnant as the extreme right? Should the hammer and sickle be as offensive as the swastika? Was Communism as evil as Nazism…

  By Cathy Young Oct 3, 2017 | 6 min read
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  There’s No Place For The Poor In America’s Jewish Communities

  Hello, Thank you for publishing Sharon Pomerantz’s important essay about class anxiety and Jewishness. One could easily say that Judaism in its American manifestations turns us away, just as much it turns us off when many of us face financial and class barriers. I find this to be at the center of my own lifelong…

  By Dena Schoen Oct 2, 2017 | 2 min read