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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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion No, I Don’t Want To Talk About Linda Sarsour Today
Yesterday, I attended the March for Racial Justice in New York City. It was a march graciously and thoughtfully put together after the organizers of the same march in DC realized that they had scheduled their original march on Yom Kippur. It was a perfect, sunny day. There was a feeling of hope in the…
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Opinion Should Gun Control Be A Jewish Issue?
Have Your Say is your chance to tell us what you think. Comment below or on Facebook and let us know what you think about the question posed in the headline. We’ll incorporate your answers in a story later in the week!
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Opinion North Korea Has Exposed The Left’s Weakness For Dictators
Several weeks ago, I was honored at a gala for an organization called Liberty in North Korea. The organization rescues North Korean refugees living in hiding in China, and resettles them in South Korea or the U.S. to prevent them from being forcibly repatriated to North Korea. Over the course of the last five years,…
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Opinion Religious Pluralism Would Spell Disaster For Israel
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, recently penned an open letter to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in Haaretz. The letter was entitled “Netanyahu Refuses to Talk to Us. But We American Jews Won’t Be Silenced”, and it was prompted by Netanyahu telling reporters that the non-Orthodox movements are using the Western…
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