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Why Can’t Israeli Officials Get Holocaust History Right?
The other day, 12,000 Jews from all over the world marched from Auschwitz to Birkenau on Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) as part of the annual pilgrimage known as the March of the Living. Students spend a week in Poland and then another week in Israel; they are at Birkeanu for Hom Hashoah and in…
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Opinion Anti-Semitism This Week: Vile Chelsea Fans And Hatred On The Stump
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. Tabulating Hatred More than 382,000 anti-Semitic messages were posted on social…
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Opinion Crisis Of Confidence: Can The Arab World Recover From The Six Day War?
As we approach the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the primary impulse for Israel and Arabs alike — to try to assign blame primarily to the other side — is also the least interesting and useful response, suggesting that many have learned nothing in the intervening decades. Instead, we should honestly evaluate the…
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Opinion Should We Celebrate The 50th Anniversary Of The Six Day War — Or Despair?
Although I was a young girl when the Six Day War broke out, I clearly remember the 5th of June, 1967. I had no personal connection to the war. Our family had no relatives or close friends in Israel at the time; the country was as abstract as the map on my Hebrew school classroom…
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Opinion Real Troopers: Boy Scouts Find Judaism In The Wild
“Be as bold as a leopard, fleet as an eagle, swift as a deer, and strong as a lion to do the will of your Father in Heaven.” Rabbi Judah ben Tema’s 2nd century call for unflagging spiritual devotion in the service of God, recorded in Pirkei Avot (“Ethics of the Fathers”), fired my imagination…
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Opinion After Theresa May Trounces Corbyn, What Should The Labour Party Do?
How far can Britain’s Labour party fall? That appears to remain the only open question as the general election – which seems certain to return Theresa May’s government to power with a vastly increased parliamentary majority – kicks off. But if Labour’s condition across the country as a whole is critical — polls currently show…
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Letters Why Holocaust Remembrance Remains So Important
Trump Gives A Holocaust Speech — And The ‘Alt Right’ Screams ‘Betrayal’, by Sam Kestenbaum, highlighted why the days of remembrance are so important. The venomous words of the ‘Alt-Right’ are revolting. We live in a society that encourages free speech. Nevertheless, we realize that hate speech can have dire consequences. I attended the ceremony…
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Opinion Trump’s Washington Reminds This Rabbi Of Modern-Day Sodom
Trump, Pence, Ryan and the whole GOP are Sodomites. This doesn’t mean that they engage in sodomy, per se. Rather, the Republican leadership today is guilty of sins so grievous that God found necessary to destroy their (im)moral forebears in the Torah. The actual text of the Sodom story in Genesis 18 and 19 doesn’t…
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Opinion What Is The Omer And Why Should You Love It Like I Do?
First off, you should know that the Omer — or, as it’s more properly known Sefirat HaOmer, “The Counting Of The Omer” — is a calendar mechanism that takes us from matzo to cheesecake. Who doesn’t love that? But it’s not all sweetness and cheese. Over the seven weeks of the Omer we have to…
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Opinion Heed Joe Lieberman’s Warning On Biological Weapons
With the threat of chemical weapons in Syria and nuclear arms in North Korea, the risk of biological weapons has largely dropped off the international agenda. But evolving technologies and genetic engineering may open the door to new dangers. Other than the “anthrax in the mail” attacks that followed 9/11, killing five people, there have…
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Opinion Arthur Szyk’s Anti-Fascist Imagery Deserves Another Look
Through the stroke of a brush, artists have the power to promote understanding and influence public opinion. In an age when images and text bombard us from every corner, we too often devalue the cultural and political importance of art and its ability to bring people together. As Americans sought to understand the rise of…
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