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When Melania Trump And Sara Netanyahu Bond Over Hating The Media — Be Very Worried
When Melania Trump chatted with Sara Netanyahu on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv yesterday, the two women quickly discovered they had a common bond. “You know in Israel all the people like us. The media hate us but the people love us,” Netanyahu, wife of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin…
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Opinion Linda Sarsour Is ‘An Arsonist In Our Midst’
A few months ago, I participated in an important synagogue program on Long Island about the victories and failures in our struggle against the global campaign to boycott and demonize Israel (BDS). During the question-and-answer period, one participant dismissed Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour and her ideological supporters as “stupid.” Their accusations, this individual claimed, were…
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Opinion Israel Trip Gives Trump A Boost With His Jewish Supporters
The Forward’s editor-in-chief Jane Eisner recently posed a simple question for Jewish supporters of President Donald Trump: Had enough yet? She elaborated: It should be obvious by now that this is a president who cannot and will not keep his word. Perhaps you, his supporters, still will give him a pass. He’s surely not the…
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Opinion How To Break Israel’s Bond With Young American Jews In One Easy Lesson
On Rosh Hodesh Iyar, the 8th grade students of the Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan school confronted a difficult reality shared by many Jews trying to connect with Israel. At a kibbutz the group stayed at in the Galilee, they were told that we would not be able to use the Sefer Torah (a handwritten…
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Opinion What’s The Deal With Ivanka’s Female Entrepeneurs Fund?
This weekend, The World Bank announced Saudi Arabia and The United Arab Emirates will donate a combined $100 million to a fund conceived by Ivanka Trump, which will support women entrepreneurs worldwide. Critics — particularly some former Hillary Clinton supporters — are crying foul. The donations are being made by countries ranked 109th and 141st…
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Opinion J.D. Salinger’s Holocaust Story Eerily Echoes Anne Frank
The great J.D. Salinger is not a writer we associate with the Holocaust, but as we approach 70th anniversary of “The Diary of Anne Frank,” June 25, there’s a neglected Salinger short story, “A Girl I Knew,” worth recalling as a companion piece to Frank’s memoir. “A Girl I Knew” first appeared in the February…
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Opinion How Trump’s Lavish Saudi Embrace Could Lead To Disaster In Israel
Donald Trump changed America’s standing in the Middle East on Sunday, perhaps historically. He reversed eight years of foreign policy carried out by his predecessor, Barack Obama. He positioned himself as champion of Saudi Arabia and Sunni Islam and as chief adversary of Iran and the Shia. He embraced the kingdoms, sheikdoms, dictatorships, military regimes…
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Opinion Alternative Solutions To Israel-Palestinian Quagmire
Conventional wisdom suggests that we all know the essentials of what a final deal between Israelis and Palestinians will look like: two states, some land swaps, and a sensible compromise regarding Jerusalem, refugees, resources and security issues. But as the Israeli government presses on in its settlement-building ventures, and President Trump casually states his indifference…
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Opinion Presidential Advisors Must Be Willing To Lose Their Jobs
I have never met General H.R. McMaster, but he enjoys a reputation as a truth teller. That becomes apparent when I read his award-winning book, Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam., which lambasts Vietnam-era generals for failing to confront President Johnson with the truth…
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Opinion Should Jews Support Joe Lieberman For FBI Director?
News recently broke that President Trump considers former Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman, 75, the frontrunner to succeed James Comey as FBI director. If the BDS-battling, yarmulke-wearing Lieberman actually gets the job, it would mark a watershed moment, since the FBI has never had a Jew in charge. But should American Jews celebrate or fear Lieberman,…
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Opinion Can Amir Peretz Finish What Israel’s Black Panthers Started?
To understand the polarization in Israeli society between the center and the periphery, the divide between Ashkenazim and Mizrahim, right and left, we must look back to the often fraught relationship between economically dominant Kibbutzim and neighboring “development towns.” Since the establishment of the state of Israel, this dominance was characterized by segregated living conditions…
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