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How Aid To Palestinians Hurts — Not Helps — The Peace Process
Last week, the United States announced its intention to delay a $65 million payment to the United Nations Reliefs and Works Agency. UNRWA is a United Nations agency specifically dedicated to providing Palestinians with aid. The Trump administration will be withholding $65 million out of America’s total annual contribution of over $360 million. The responses…
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Opinion The Biggest Threat To The Jews? The Partisan Divide.
The central existential threat to Jews in America today is the toxic nature of partisanship in American political culture. I believe we are at a critical juncture for a new American Jewish conversation on this issue that asks us to consider how our political choices as Jews implicate our collective identity as Jews in America….
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Opinion Why Jewish Students Are Horrified By Trump’s Latest Appointment
Kenneth Marcus, President Donald Trump’s nominee for assistant secretary of civil rights in the Education Department, is a controversial character. The founder of the Louis B. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, Marcus came to the attention of student activists last spring when he waded into a student discussion about whether to boycott Israel….
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Opinion The Trump Administration Has Just Deprived 5 Million Palestinians Of Food
During the summer of 2005, while the Israeli army was preparing to evacuate 7,500 Jewish settlers and end its 38-year military presence in Gaza, I spent quite a bit of time wandering around the coastal territory, talking to soon-to-be-displaced Israelis and to Palestinian residents. I moved between the destitute Palestinian refugee camps, crowded and slumlike,…
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Opinion Why MuslimGirl’s Rejection Of Gal Gadot Is A Good Thing
This week, a Muslim blogger turned down a prestigious award – over Gal Gadot. Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, the founder of the popular blog and brand MuslimGirl.com, made international headlines by refusing to accept the Revlon Changemaker Award. As Al-Khatahtbeh wrote in an open letter to Gadot, she could not in good conscience accept an award from…
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Opinion Homeland Security Is Wrong. Most Extremists Are American Born
A new report, commissioned by the Trump Administration as part of its efforts to enact new restrictions on immigration, bends over backwards to selectively pick and choose cases in which immigrants who entered the country through the diversity visa lottery or other immigration programs were directly linked to terror plots. The unsubtle agenda of the…
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Opinion Abbas’s Comments Are Indefensible
Even if there might be reasons for his rage, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s series of statements over the last few days cannot be dismissed, ignored or justified. They provoke anger, dismay and condemnation because they give voice to the most insidious, damning accusation against Jews: That we have no valid claim to the land…
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Letters I Was Called A White Jew — During World War II
To the Editor: Tamar Manasseh writes in “Stop Calling Me a ‘Black Jew’ ” (Jan. 14) that she has never heard anybody referred to as a “White Jew.” Well I have. It was during World War II, when the armed forces were segregated and I was taking my basic infantry training in Florida, with a…
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Opinion The Notorious R.B.G., Live And In Person
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! She’s 84 years old, a stooped, frail two-time cancer survivor, grandmother and widow, with a job that requires discretion and neutrality and is so guarded that she and her colleagues wear the same-looking…
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Opinion Trump Has Handed The Israel Lobby To Evangelicals. That’s Terrifying.
Vice President Mike Pence’s on again, off again visit to Israel is apparently on again for next week, but the actual timing was never the real thing. Pence and other deeply conservative white Christian evangelicals now driving American policy toward Israel and the Palestinians are playing a very long game that extends far beyond one…
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Opinion Like Pharaoh, Trump’s Most Salient Trait Is His Ingratitude
Until now, I have refrained from commenting on President Trump’s latest outrageous comments because so many others have said so much. After The New York Times editorial page on Saturday called him racist, ignorant, incompetent, undignified and a liar, is there anything more to add? Yes. He’s ungrateful. Before you accuse me of piling on,…
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