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Abbas Just Committed To A Two State Solution. It’s Time For Israel To Follow Suit.
In a landmark speech to the Security Council this week, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued an important challenge to his American and Israeli counterparts. Laying out explicit support for the two-state solution and a serious proposal for getting there, Abbas raised the obvious question: Why are President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu unwilling to do…
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Opinion You Can’t Force A Peace Deal, President Trump
A central and enduring premise of American pro-Israel leadership has always been that any resolution of the conflict between Israel and its neighbors, specifically including the Palestinians, should not be imposed from the outside, but must instead result from agreement between the parties. It is this principle — that a US administration cannot force a…
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Opinion 6 Things Orthodox Girls Schools Should Do In The #MeToo Era
March first marks the start of Women’s History Month. That date also marks the yartzeit of Sarah Schenirer, pioneer of Bais Yaakov, the ultra-Orthodox girls’ school. In the words of former Bais Yaakov student, Alanis Morissette (kidding), isn’t it ironic? Schenirer is the OG Orthodox feminist. She was a blazing renegade who could stand with…
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Opinion Is Hating Poles The New Bigotry Of the Day?
Tensions between Jews and Poles are at an all time high over a new Polish law that would would make it illegal — and punishable by up to three years in prison — to say that the Polish government or nation took part in the Holocaust. Diaspora Jews and Israelis alike have been quick to…
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Opinion American Jews Don’t Need Israel to be Jewish
In a recent Forward article about a new study on young American Jewry, Batya Ungar-Sargon explains that Israel’s far-right turn has left young jews increasingly disconnected from modern day Israel, and even the idea of a Jewish State itself. While highlighting some important developments that make clear the urgent need for justice in Israel/Palestine and…
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Opinion Does Trump Have A New Israel Whisperer?
Many who know President Trump have noted what Trump’s biographer Marc Fisher called “the last guy in the room phenomenon.” “People used to literally hang out in his office for hours deep into the night if they knew that there was a position that had to be taken,” Fisher told Slate. “They wanted to be…
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Opinion In Which The Jewish Community Gives Cover To A Child Molester – Again
Almost exactly two years ago, I basically left my local Jewish community. I removed myself from every Facebook group and stopped attending local events, playgroups and more. The reason? A local rabbi, Aryeh Goodman, had been released from prison, after he served time for inappropriately touching a minor while working at a summer camp in…
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Opinion Is Polish Nationalism Inherently Anti-Semitic?
The Polish government’s new law criminalizing certain types of Holocaust speech may give comfort to nationalists in Poland, but it is having serious negative repercussions for the local Jewish community and for national memory. The Polish Jewish community released an open letter, saying “Polish Jews do not feel safe in Poland” due to “the current…
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Opinion Bari Weiss And The Solidarity Of The Punditry Class
The right says the media has a liberal bias. The left says the media has a conservative bias. But the truth is that high profile pundits aren’t necessarily actuated by political ideology at all. They’re actuated by what I refer to as chattering class solidarity—the desire to preserve their status as high profile pundits. The…
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Opinion Why Is No One Talking About The Neo Nazi March In Bulgaria?
For the sixteenth year in a row, the far-right Bulgarian National Union is organizing the Lukov March through the streets of central Sofia. And they insist there’s nothing anti-Semitic or Nazi-like about it. The march, which will take place this Saturday, is in honour of Hristo Lukov, a Bulgarian general who led the pro-Nazi Union…
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Opinion You Know Who Isn’t Abandoning Israel? The Orthodox.
Some recent studies have yielded a disturbing picture: young American Jews are becoming more and more alienated from their elders’ full-hearted embrace of Israel. It has led to some hand-wringing. “When young Jews stop identifying with Israel or caring about it, this reinforces a lack of engagement with their Jewish identity overall,” wrote Batya Ungar-Sargon…
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