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  This Week In Anti-Semitism: Attacks Against Jews Rise Even In Polite Canada

  The Forward regularly monitors the surge of anti-Semitism across the country and around the world. The mission of this column is not to unduly alarm, but rather to raise awareness of a disturbing trend that, from some vantage points, can prove difficult to spot. Though he’s not even Jewish, Emmanuel Macron is not immune to…

  By Steven Davidson

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  Bad For The Jews: What Would Have Happened If Israel Lost The Six Day War?

  Despite the effectiveness of my daily beta blocker in controlling the work of my heart, my blood pressure rose to astronomical heights with my growing anger as I read the two consecutive articles and their misplaced emphasis on and sympathy for the Arab feelings of inadequacy and regret arising from their failure to destroy Israel…

  By Sheldon F. Gottlieb May 11, 2017 | 4 min read
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  Why I Hate Mother’s Day, And Why All Women Should Hate It, Too

  A wise man told me never to eat a meal prepared by someone who brags about washing his hands. His point was clear: You can’t trust someone who takes unusual pride in achieving a commonplace, because it suggests that for him it’s actually an extraordinary occurrence. It suggests that something that should happen every day…

  By Dan Friedman May 10, 2017 | 3 min read

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  My Father’s Heroic Sacrifice To Retake Jerusalem In 1967

  I never really met my father, Rami Wald. I was only 10 months old when he was killed fighting for Ammunition Hill, the strategic hilltop held by the Jordanians during the Six Day War. I’ve spent much of my adult life trying to piece together what happened the day my father, a paratrooper and captain…

  By Alon Wald May 10, 2017 | 2 min read
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  Memories Of The Six-Day War Still Haunt Many Palestinians

  Leila Awawdeh felt like a mother to me. Yes, she is Palestinian, a devout Muslim woman in her late 50s. And when I met her, I was a 22-year-old Jewish New Yorker, traveling around the region to interview locals for a book project. But on the streets of Hebron’s Old City, her calm, quiet voice…

  By Steven Davidson May 10, 2017 | 2 min read
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  What The GOP Health Care Bill Says About A Sick Country

  It’s all too easy to understate the harm done to America by the House of Representatives on May 4, when the House narrowly passed the so-called American Health Care Act. The cobbled-together bill, the Republicans’ first concrete step toward unraveling Obamacare, won’t end up becoming law. Unfortunately, considerable damage has already been done — to…

  By J.J. Goldberg May 10, 2017 | 4 min read
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  Jewish College Students Aren’t Losing Their Religion

  In a recent analysis of U.S. religious groups, the Pew Research Center reported that the most educated American Jews are also the least religious. In considering these findings, it’s tempting to think that secular education leads to assimilation among American Jews (I want to be clear that Pew, a leading source of data on contemporary…

  By Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz May 10, 2017 | 4 min read
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  Trump’s Lying About Comey And Russia — Ask Anyone In The Shtetl

  A Jewish folk tale recounts a dim-witted bandit who stole something from a stall in a busy market in the shtetl, before disappearing into the crowd. Then some genius came along and shouted “Oyfn ganef brent dos hitl” – “the cap on the thief’s head is burning” – upon which our dopey crook gave himself…

  By Chemi Shalev (Haaretz) May 10, 2017 | 4 min read
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  Linda Sarsour’s CUNY Speech: A Moral Disaster

  One can have visions of shenere un be sere velt, a better and more beautiful world, as prophesied by the Workmen’s Circle, when reading the delusional praise of Linda Sarsour in the Forward by New York City Councilmember Brad Lander. Alas, his naive ilk bears historical precedence in bad Jewish outcomes. Before getting to the…

  By Jeffrey S. Weisenfeld May 10, 2017 | 3 min read
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  Armed And Dangerous: After Firing James Comey, Trump Will Weaponize The FBI

  It’s clear what Donald Trump got rid of in his “midnight massacre” firing of FBI Director James Comey: an investigation into his ties to Russia that is somewhere between pesky and a prelude to impeachment. Less well observed is what he gained: the weaponization of the FBI, soon to be headed by a Trump loyalist,…

  By Jay Michaelson May 10, 2017 | 4 min read
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  Remembering Deborah Cotton, Who Lived To Forgive The Men Who Took Her Life

  While covering the Mother’s Day second line parade in New Orleans — a festive tradition in the city — on May 12, 2013, two young brothers sprayed bullets into the crowd. The shooting wounded 19 people, including reporter Deborah Cotton, a longtime correspondent for the local alt weekly Gambit and a cultural writer for Nola.com….

  By Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg May 9, 2017 | 3 min read