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Jewish Students Just Want You To Stop Talking About Israel
If you’re a sentient American Jew, you’ve heard the claim that college campus is a warzone. It’s beyond a well-rehearsed truism at this point. It’s become reigning orthodoxy to view Jewish college students as beset by anti-Semitic harassment in liberal, Israel-hating college campuses, which are themselves seen as volatile surrogate battlefields to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict….
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Opinion Glenn Greenwald’s Takedown Of Jewish Editor Shows How Not To Disagree With Someone
Nothing contributed to the rise of Donald Trump quite like the infamous echo chamber. By now we are all too familiar with the way that Facebook and other media — and our own passions and insecurities — allowed us to see only what we wanted to see, to hear only what we wanted to hear,…
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Opinion Charlie Hebdo Turns On Harvey ‘Neo Nazis’ Upsetting Conservative Snowflakes
If there is one thing that I’ve learned about those on the right, it’s that having feelings about marganlized groups tends to be frowned upon. Whenever issues such as racism, sexism, transphobia or Islamophiba come up, self-proclaimed Deplorables will often sneer and say, “Get over it, snowflake.” What’s ironic is that while these same people…
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Letters Israeli MK’s Mockery of Modern Orthodox Misses The Mark
MK Aryeh Deri derided Modern Orthodoxy as “Borderline Reform” as reported by Israel TV’s Channel 2. This head of the Haredi Sefardic political party, Shas, has served a prison term for criminal corruption, hardly a badge of honor for an Orthodox spokesman we would expect to be committed as a matter of conscience to “doing…
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Opinion Our Western Wall Victory Is A Win For All Jewish Women Seeking To Pray
Thursday morning, my Women of the Wall (WOW) sisters and I gathered not at the Western Wall, but at another location in Jerusalem: the Supreme Court. We’d been waiting for this day for months, and it finally came. In June, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reneged on an agreement to create a space at the Western…
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Opinion What The Forward Really Said About Gorka — And Why We’re Proud We Did
Sebastian Gorka, who left his post as deputy special assistant to the president last week, is using interviews with friendly media outlets to lambast liberal American Jews and the Forward, claiming that we attacked him solely because of his views on Israel. The Forward has written a lot about Gorka, but we have never attacked…
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Opinion The Left-Wing Threat To Liberalism
Liberalism, in its classic sense of a free society based on individual rights, intellectual pluralism, and democratic government, is in peril—as numerousvoices havewarned over the past two years. The common assumption is that the illiberal tide comes from the right: the xenophobic populism, nationalism, and authoritarianism represented by Donald Trump in the United States and…
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Letters Through The David Project, Hillel Takes The Next Step In Engagement
Every day, Hillel brings Israel to the campus – and now, we are taking extra steps to bring the campus to Israel. That is why Hillel International is proud that The David Project and its effective Israel advocacy programs are now under the Hillel umbrella. Hillel International’s The David Project builds connections between Jewish and…
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Opinion Harvey Is Biblical For Me And My Family — But Not For The Reason You Think
This morning I took a break from clearing my yard of the tree limbs and debris to google the name of the storm that caused the damage, along with the adjective “biblical”. The number of links that appeared—nearly seven million—rivaled the magnitude of the event. No doubt, many have nothing to do with the event…
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Opinion Jane Looking Forward: What’s The Meaning Of Well-Meaning Protests?
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward! We’re now in the last week of summer vacations, with Rosh Hashanah fast approaching. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, sign up here. And spread the word! Earlier this year, the Fourth Universalist Church, a progressive congregation on a lovely corner of Central Park West, was…
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Opinion Hillel’s Merger With The David Project Will Leave Many Students Out In The Cold
When I started college, I excitedly and optimistically began attending Hillel events. I had been raised in a proud, secular Jewish family with a rich intellectual and academic tradition. I was taught that to be Jewish was to read, learn voraciously, and question everything. When I graduated high school and went to Penn State, I…
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