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  Hate Jared Kushner? Blame Millennials, Not Jews.

  It’s official: Jared Kushner is the least popular member of the first family — by far. This may or may not have something to do with his being an Orthodox Jew, as the Forward’s editor-in-chief, Jane Eisner argued in her July 25 op-ed. But is Kushner’s religion really the guy’s most salient feature, even in…

  By Laura E. Adkins

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  The Unbearable Privilege Of Being Jared Kushner

  Oh, it must be such a privilege to be Jared Kushner. You only have to read Kushner’s lengthy 11-page statement that he so smartly issued yesterday morning, before appearing at a closed-door meeting of the Senate Intelligence Committee, for proof of the elevated plane on which the secretive senior adviser to the president operates. The…

  By Jane Eisner Jul 25, 2017 | 3 min read
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  Jane Looking Forward: To The End Of The Land, The Ignored Poor And More

  I’m going to see the play “To the End of the Land,” by David Grossman at the Lincoln Center Festival tomorrow night. Sadly, what began as an evening at the theatre has turned into a political statement. The production is a dramatization of Grossman’s brilliant but bedeviling novel exploring the connections between three Israelis who…

  By Jane Eisner Jul 24, 2017 | 3 min read

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• Nora Berman Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla was never going to help Palestinians

  

• Dan Perry Israel’s strike on Iran was necessary. But for real change, the US must join the fray

  

• Emily Tamkin Trump’s latest move makes Mahmoud Khalil a Joseph for our times

  

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  Women Should Dress Modestly To Succeed At Work — Science Proves It

  Wonder Woman is everywhere. For the first time in film history, a woman is the main hero in a big-budget movie that was also directed by a woman. But despite this milestone, it is difficult to ignore the fact that the messages surrounding the film are conflicting and contradictory. Before the film began production, there…

  By Sarah Felsenthal Jul 24, 2017 | 5 min read
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  Remembering Esther Ticktin: A Jewish Feminist Who Inspired Learners For Decades

  This past Friday, Esther Ticktin died at the age of 91. One year ago, her husband, Rabbi Max Ticktin, died at age 94. For three generations of Hillel rabbis, university students and members of the havurah, or fellowship, movement, the Ticktins were a guide to Jewish learning, Jewish life and the Jewish engagement with healing…

  By Arthur Waskow Jul 24, 2017 | 4 min read
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  How Israel’s Temple Mount Crisis Became A Showdown — Between Government And Generals

  On Saturday evening, July 22, the eighth day of the Temple Mount crisis, Israel’s education minister Naftali Bennett, head of the religious-nationalist Jewish Home party, made a condolence visit to the family that had lost three of its members in a horrific stabbing attack the day before. It was not exactly a shiva call, as…

  By J.J. Goldberg Jul 24, 2017 | 5 min read
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  Let My People Pray At The Temple Mount — It Will Teach Palestinians A Lesson

  This past Wednesday, I ascended to the Temple Mount, as I have done many scores of times, and, following the police security check, was permitted to enter the compound Muslims call the Haram A-Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary. The precincts were empty, totally so. I did not see more than a half-dozen Muslims there, except for…

  By Yisrael Medad Jul 20, 2017 | 4 min read
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  WTF: Why Don’t Some Observant Jews Carry Umbrellas On Shabbat?

  I’m not a rabbi, nor am I an expert on Jewish law by any means — but I have been a practicing Modern Orthodox Jew for my entire adult life. As one of the few Orthodox Jews working at the beautifully pluralistic Forward, I often become the go-to gal for questions of religious custom and…

  By Laura E. Adkins Jul 20, 2017 | 3 min read
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  The West’s Response To Hungary Affects The Future Of Europe — And Its Jews

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to Budapest earlier this week and got out of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán a promise that, to paraphrase Susan Sontag, never again will Hungarians be allowed to kill Jews in the 1940s. The government of Hungary committed a “sin” when “it did not protect its citizens of Jewish…

  By Liam Hoare Jul 20, 2017 | 3 min read
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  4 Things I Learned About Jews This Summer

  When I was first told that my internship program was placing me at the Forward, I was apprehensive, to say the least. What would I, an atheist college student from Iowa whose experience with Jews was almost non-existent, have to offer to a Jewish publication that I had never heard of, never mind read? What…

  By Michael Heckle Jul 20, 2017 | 4 min read
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  Trump’s Bibi-Esque Iran Policy Shows The Right’s Allergy To Diplomacy

  Of the three immense embarrassments that befell the Trump presidency in mid-July, two were the fault of Trump’s aides and allies. The third was entirely his own doing. The difference is telling, and it’s critical that we understand it. The first two embarrassments — Donald Trump Jr.’s Russia meeting and Congress’s failure to repeal Obamacare…

  By J.J. Goldberg Jul 19, 2017 | 5 min read