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Fault Lines Episode 12: Alternatives To The Two-State Solution
What if the Two-State Solution is dead? In the most recent episode, Peter Beinart and Daniel Gordis grappled with the American Jewish millennials who have started to lose faith in the Two-State Solution. The Two-State Solution has long been considered the only legitimate end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but new times are prompting the question:…
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Opinion We Were 100% Right To Highlight Anti-Israel Hate — Whatever Peter Beinart Says
In his June 21 column, Peter Beinart accused The Israel Project of wanting to suppress the video of an anti-Israel event held on Capitol Hill on June 8. If we had wanted to suppress the video, we would not have drawn attention to it. For those who would like to see the whole video, it…
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Opinion Jane Looking Forward: Drama At The Western Wall, Defending Democracy And More
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward, my new weekly opportunity to speak directly to you and share what’s on my mind. The plan to create an egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall in Jerusalem was on life support even before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unceremoniously pulled the plug yesterday. We all knew that….
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Opinion Most Jews React To Netanyahu’s Western Wall Decision With Outrage
Seventeen months after a historic deal was reached that would allow egalitarian and non-Orthodox prayer spaces at the Western Wall, Israel’s governing cabinet suspended the agreement, bowing to pressure from Haredi parties in the government who wish to maintain the status quo. Reaction throughout the Jewish world has been swift and loud. Diaspora Jews, particularly…
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Opinion Dear GOP Senators: Your Health Care Bill Targets My Son
When it comes to influencing government officials with the humanity of my profoundly autistic son, I’ve gotten advice from some of the best special education lawyers in New York. First and foremost, they’ve told us, make sure you bring a photograph of him to all meetings with officials from New York City’s Committee on Special…
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Opinion How Trolling Journalists Harms Democracy
When the anti-Semitic emails and nasty messages on social media bombarded Jewish journalists last year, those of us receiving this online harassment knew that it was an outgrowth of the contentious presidential campaign, especially from supporters of Donald Trump. As the attacks eased in the past few months, I exhaled a bit. Maybe the worst…
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Opinion How America Got So Angry (Hint: It Didn’t Start With Trump)
As president, Barack Obama had a catch-phrase that he often invoked at moments when America seemed to have shamed herself: “That’s not who we are.” He said it after the Sandy Hook massacre. He said it to defend academic freedom and to oppose Islam-bashing and anti-immigrant agitation. His critics on the right hated it. They…
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Opinion How Bibi Just Gave Liberal Jews The Finger — And What We Can Do About It
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just gave the finger to a huge chunk of American Jews and, by doing so, dangerously upset the already precarious relationship between the Israeli government and the Diaspora. There is no other way to interpret the Israeli Cabinet’s spineless decision yesterday to accede to the ultra-Orthodox members of the coalition…
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Opinion New York Times Op-Ed Asks: ‘Is Your God Dead?’
In what read like a homily inspired by an acid trip, Emory University philosophy professor George Yancy channeled the likes of Friedrich Nietzsche and Abraham Joshua Heschel in a rambling but strangely moving New York Times op-ed published Monday. The essay, titled “Is Your God Dead?”, asks the reader to look at one’s own beliefs…
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Opinion What We Can Learn From Trump’s Saudi Sword Dance
I don’t know about you, but until President Trump’s trip to the Middle East last month, I had never heard of a “sword dance.” Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, you’ll recall, were welcomed to Saudi Arabia at the Murabba Palace, near Riyadh, where they joined a lively group of Saudis clad in traditional…
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Opinion This Week In Anti-Semitism: Graffiti Never Seems To Go Away
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. Students and Jewish community members at San Francisco State University filed…
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