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  I Don’t Believe Dylan Farrow

  It seems the #MeToo wrecking ball is finally catching up with Woody Allen. The 82-year-old actor and filmmaker has long been haunted by allegations that he molested his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, more than a quarter-century ago, when she was just seven years old. In 2014, Farrow wrote an open letter with the accusation, and…

  By Cathy Young

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  Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Grandfather Read The Forward In Yiddish. Pretty Cool.

  Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! The interview was over and we walked into a secure hallway adjacent to the large sanctuary at Adas Israel, the applause and cheers still echoing through the Washington synagogue. Secret service agents hovered…

  By Jane Eisner Feb 6, 2018 | 3 min read
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  Jane Eisner Interviews Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Transcript

  On February 1, 2018, Jane Eisner, editor-in-chief of the Forward, interviewed Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg, a legal and cultural icon, is the longest serving Jewish Supreme Court justice, as well as the second woman to ever serve as a justice. She spoke with Eisner for nearly an hour-and-a-half at Adas Israel in Washington, D.C. Lauren…

  By Jane Eisner Feb 5, 2018 | 31 min read

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  White Nationalism Is Spreading In The Orthodox Community

  Something disturbing has been happening in the Orthodox world. White Nationalist language is infiltrating our public spaces. It’s happening in our synagogues, in our communities, in our schools and, of course, online. And those of us who see it are looking on in increasing horror. There was always some racism in our communities, of course;…

  By Elad Nehorai Feb 5, 2018 | 8 min read
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  It’s Time For A Holocaust #MeToo Reckoning

  Over the past few months, more and more women have been opening up about horrible stories of sexual harassment, assault and abuse. The #MeToo movement is a long overdue corrective to our culture. And yet the stories of one group of women have yet to crest into the mainstream and get the recognition they deserve:…

  By Marisa Fox-Bevilacqua Feb 5, 2018 | 9 min read
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  Poland’s Holocaust Bill Is Part Of A Right Wing Nationalist Agenda

  The bus from Warsaw to Rzeszów, Poland, breaks in Kielce. A small city in southwestern Poland, over 50 Jews were killed in Kielce by their Polish neighbors after returning from concentration camps in 1946. I found myself in Kielce en route to a Holocaust Commemoration week in the Podkarpackie Voidodeship, a mostly rural, deeply conservative…

  By Sam Rubin Feb 1, 2018 | 5 min read
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  My Son, Blaze Bernstein, Was Murdered. Then Came The Outpouring Of Love.

  Is it possible to know how you will act when thrust into an existentialist crisis? Will you stand up to the challenge, or fall to the ground in a puddle of fears and devastation? Will you rise with courage and purpose and fight for life, for love, for resolution, knowing that even with your last…

  By Jeanne Pepper Feb 1, 2018 | 3 min read
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  I’m Polish. My Government Has Every Right To Fight For The Truth.

  Poland and Israel are currently caught in the biggest diplomatic crisis since the fall of communism. The crisis came about after Polish lawmakers approved a bill criminalizing statements that blame Poland for the Holocaust. In retaliation, new legislation in the Knesset would make the Polish bill a form of illegal Holocaust denial. But the opposite…

  By Marcin Makowski Feb 1, 2018 | 6 min read
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  Hypocrisy, Blindness, Jewish Telegrams: Untangling One Day In Israeli-Palestinian Relations

  You’d think by now we’d be accustomed to the steady stream of lies and double-dealing that passes for diplomacy in the Middle East. Still, it’s hard to think of anything comparable to the weird convergence of hypocrisy, blindness and plain chutzpah that unfolded on three continents on a recent Thursday, January 25. That was the…

  By J.J. Goldberg Feb 1, 2018 | 5 min read
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  These Professors Tried To Kick Me Out Of A Meeting – For Supporting Israel

  In early January, I had what’s becoming an increasingly common experience: Supporters of a boycott tried to boycott me. The largest faculty organization here or abroad, the Modern Language Association, advertised a meeting at New York University to discuss the boycott of Israel. There I was asked to leave by several BDS-supporting faculty in attendance….

  By Cary Nelson Jan 31, 2018 | 5 min read
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  No, Judith Butler Did Not Ask Someone To Leave A Meeting For Being Pro Israel

  This piece is a response to an earlier article that you can find here. On a bitterly cold night during the 2018 Modern Language Association conference in New York City, a group of scholars met at a publicly announced location to discuss “Palestine and the Future of Academia.” This was not an MLA sponsored event…

  By Jack Halberstam Jan 31, 2018 | 3 min read