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  Get Inspired by the Muslim Woman Who Hid a Jew’s Yellow Star With Her Veil

  In the wake of the election, hate crimes against Muslims have skyrocketed. Now more than ever, it’s our duty as Jews to stand in solidarity with and in defense of Muslim Americans. This is true because Islamophobic hatred is inherently an unacceptable injustice. It’s also true because we know what it is to feel targeted,…

  By Lana Adler

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  Israeli Muslims Want To Save the Muezzin — and So Do Ultra-Orthodox Jews

  Israel’s Knesset has passed the preliminary reading of a bill that would bar mosques from using loudspeaker systems to amplify the muezzin, or Muslim call to prayer. The bill doesn’t actually say “mosques” — it says “religious institutions” — but that’s clearly a codeword for mosques, since they’re the ones that use powerful outdoor loudspeakers,…

  By Eetta Prince-Gibson Nov 17, 2016 | 3 min read
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  Why Do Israel’s Arabs Keep Playing by the Rules?

  Israel has a Palestinian minority (17.5% of Israel’s citizens) hidden behind the enormous Palestinian question. Can a Palestinian Arab citizen be equal in Israel and identify with the state of and for Jews? Can an Arab be loyal while committed to the Palestinian people who are Israel’s active enemy? Can Jews and the state trust…

  By Sammy Smooha Nov 17, 2016 | 5 min read

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  Ditch the Safety Pin and Don a Kippah To Make Your Jewishness More Visible Under Trump

  In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, with the Southern Poverty Law Center reporting over 400 incidents of “hateful harassment and assault,” and Steve Bannon designated as chief strategist for the White House — how important is it to get our response to fear exactly right? Can we feel our way through various responses, even…

  By Mira Sucharov Nov 17, 2016 | 3 min read
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  They Went Low With Donald Trump and Steve Bannon — We Should Go Lower

  “When they go low, we go high,” said Michelle Obama. Look how well that turned out. For the next four years, progressives must take a lesson from conservatives: When they go low, we must go lower, fiercer, harder, smarter. We must fight unrelentingly to save the country (and planet) we once knew. The same zeal,…

  By Jay Michaelson Nov 17, 2016 | 5 min read
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  4 Things Breitbart Got Dead Wrong About the Forward

  Aaron Klein writes on Breitbart.com that the Forward intentionally smeared his former boss and senior Donald Trump advisor, Stephen Bannon, by explaining how he can support Israel and still be associated with anti-Semitism. To quote the president-elect: Wrong. We are journalists, with a proud history extending over nearly 120 years of independent reporting. We don’t…

  By Jane Eisner Nov 16, 2016 | < 1 min read
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  A Letter to My Evangelical Friend, Who Betrayed Me (and All Jews) by Voting for Trump

  Dear C., Over the years as we’ve gradually become friends, we’ve come to realize how unlikely and how important our bond is. I’m an observant Jew and a political liberal, and you’re an evangelical Christian and a political conservative, and our peoples have been historical enemies for a long time. We thought we were helping…

  By Samuel G. Freedman Nov 16, 2016 | 7 min read
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  The Breathtaking Hypocrisy of Jews Who Line Up Behind Steve Bannon’s Twisted Vision of America

  For many years now, American Jews have been told to worry about anti-Semitism from the left, from those whose criticism of Israel veers into rank de-legitimization of the Jewish state. Well-funded efforts have sprung up to defeat this “new anti-Semitism,” especially on college campuses, and it’s getting to the point where support of the movement…

  By Jane Eisner Nov 16, 2016 | 3 min read
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  In Trump’s America, Facing My Own ‘Banality of Evil’ Over Kale Salad

  After synagogue on Friday, I went out to dinner. Over rigatoni with eggplant and kale salad, my mom and her friends talked about the nightmare of Donald Trump’s election. “This is horrific,” they said over and over, rehashing this hateful thing he’s said and that horrible thing he’s done and imagining just how awful it…

  By Claire Schwartz Nov 15, 2016 | 4 min read
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  That Other Time Jews Were Hated in America — and 3 Lessons To Learn from It Now

  “America First!” “Absolute control of the United States by the United States!” “Return to Normalcy!” These may sound like slogans emanating from the campaign of Donald J. Trump, but in fact they date back to 1920, when Warren G. Harding was elected president. The Harding election, like that of Trump, represented a sharp and shocking…

  By Jonathan D. Sarna Nov 15, 2016 | 4 min read
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  Why We Need To Celebrate Those Who Are Shaping the American Jewish Conversation Now More Than Ever

  The result of the presidential election has sucked the air out of the American Jewish conversation. A small minority of our community looks to strong leadership and a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian issue while the rest despair at the prospective gutting of social and political institutions and the appointment of a white nationalist, with a…

  By Dan Friedman Nov 15, 2016 | 2 min read