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  Who You Callin’ Anti-Semite? Reserve The Term For The Worst Offenders

  We’ve been playing this game for months now. First with Michael Flynn. Then with Stephen Bannon. Now with Sebastian Gorka. Liberals accuse a Donald Trump adviser of having ties to right-wing anti-Semites. Trump’s Jewish supporters defend him. And, not content to stop there, they throw the charge back in the accusers’ faces — claiming that…

  By Peter Beinart

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  State Of Disrepair: Remember When Israeli Leaders Did The Right Thing?

  Often, as the saying goes, power corrupts, and long-term power corrupts even more. In Israel, this situation has often been characterized as the collusion of wealth, government and the media. Over the past two decades, the deterioration of the quality of governance in Israel has been pronounced: The former president, Moshe Katsav, has been just…

  By Edward Edy Kaufman Mar 22, 2017 | 3 min read
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  State Of Disrepair: Remember When Israeli Leaders Did The Right Thing

  Often, as the saying goes, power corrupts, and long-term power corrupts even more. In Israel, this situation has been often characterized as the collusion of wealth, government and the media. Over the last two decades, the deterioration of the quality of governance in Israel has been pronounced: the former president, Moshe Katsav, has been just…

  By Edward Edy Kaufman Mar 22, 2017 | 3 min read

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  Sebastian Gorka, Uphold Your Oath To The American People

  For several weeks, the Forward has published a series of articles about Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Trump, chief adviser on counter-terrorism, and member of the administration’s newly formed Strategic Initiatives Group. The articles reported that Gorka had close ties to far-right politicians in Hungary and that the leaders of a group on the…

  By Jane Eisner Mar 22, 2017 | 4 min read
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  Fighting Animal Cruelty Now May Be Like Battling Segregation Yesterday

  “It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves,” writes Princeton philosopher Peter Singer in his book “Practical Ethics.” “It is more difficult,” he continues, “to distance ourselves from our own beliefs so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among them.” Indeed, when it comes…

  By Paul Shapiro Mar 21, 2017 | 3 min read
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  New Posters From The Ministry Of Alternative Facts

  Bannon Productions presents:

  By Kirk Anderson Mar 21, 2017 | < 1 min read
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  After Comey’s Bombshell, Will Republicans Finally Act Like Americans?

  There was a certain ironic justice in FBI Director James Comey’s sensational testimony March 20 before the House Intelligence Committee. Comey testified that the bureau is investigating “whether there was any coordination” between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and “the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in last year’s election.” In other words, the FBI believes it…

  By J.J. Goldberg Mar 21, 2017 | 4 min read
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  These Riveting Photos Show Israelis Helping Africans Find Clean Water

  ‘Unsafe water kills more people than war.” This statement caught me off guard. “In 2017? Really?” I thought to myself. Yet hundreds and millions of Africans lack access to clean drinking water, resulting in famine, poverty and many deaths, facts those of us who take clean water for granted should contemplate as we mark World…

  By Lior Sperandeo Mar 20, 2017 | 3 min read
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  Is There A Silver Lining To Increasing Anti-Semitism?

  As Jewish Community Centers across the United States recently celebrated Purim, seven more received anonymous bomb threats. Despite the normally cheerful Purim festivities, the prevailing mood among American Jews is grim. Whether or not they’re in a state of panic, as some commentators have debated, there’s undoubtedly widespread anxiety among American Jews today, after more…

  By Dov Waxman Mar 20, 2017 | 4 min read
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  A Growing Culture of Hate Takes Root In Middle East

  On March 12, 2017, Ahmed Daqamseh, the Jordanian soldier who had murdered seven Israeli schoolgirls in 1997, was released from prison. One would have expected to see him regret his horrible crime, and the people around him to express remorse for his victims — as the late Jordanian King, Hussein, exemplified 20 years ago when…

  By Mustafa Akyol Mar 20, 2017 | 4 min read
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  The Art Of The Steal: How Trump’s Plot To Destroy The NEA Robs America

  George Will writes that the public should not fund art. The Torah begs to differ. In Exodus 35:4, Moses informs the Israelites that God has commanded them to give of their own possessions to build and decorate the tabernacle. That’s a commandment – not a suggested donation. The artisans Bezalel and Oholiab are commissioned to…

  By Jay Michaelson Mar 20, 2017 | 4 min read