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  Is It Just Me or Was That Anti-Semitic? A British Jew’s Constant Question

  A few months ago, here in London, I was at a party talking to a man who worked in artificial intelligence. We were discussing what a robot-filled future might look like, but when he found out I was Jewish we got onto the subject of Jews. The AI researcher admired Judaism because it was the…

  By Alona Ferber

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  As a Future Rabbi, I’m Standing With Native People Against the Dakota Pipeline

  When I was young, my Bubbie was my world. Her stories of humor and grief shaped me, including the story of how, as a child, her home was burned down by Cossacks. My grandmother’s passion for life and for stories was alive in me when, years ago, I interned on Standing Rock Reservation in North…

  By Miriam Grossman Oct 21, 2016 | 4 min read
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  After Winning the Election, Here’s How Democrats Can Prevent the Next Donald Trump

  As the 2016 presidential race enters its final weeks, and Donald Trump’s campaign self-immolates before our eyes, the question that most troubles serious observers has less and less to do with who will win the presidency. The big worry right now is how Trump will behave in defeat. Will he concede and move on? Or…

  By J.J. Goldberg Oct 21, 2016 | 4 min read

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• Nora Berman ‘Eddington’ is full of conspiracy theories but it’s not about Jews. Or is it?

  

• Dan Perry Recognizing a Palestinian state is a great way to doom Palestinians

  

• Emily Tamkin Is starvation in Gaza really Israel’s fault? The facts are clear

  

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  Does Donald Trump Realize Jewish Refugees Were Also Called ‘Trojan Horses’?

  Donald Trump has called Syrian refugees the “greatest Trojan Horse of all time” — a comment he repeated in Wednesday night’s final presidential debate. He insists that immigration has to stop because “we have enough problems in our country.” Does he know that these arguments were also used against Jewish refugees during World War II…

  By Marion Kaplan Oct 20, 2016 | 3 min read
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  Does Donald Trump’s Refusal To Respect Election Results Disqualify Him From Being President?

  Go back for a moment to August 8, 1974. Richard M. Nixon, our 37th president, caught in a web of lies and cover-ups in the Watergate scandal, announced his resignation to the nation. The following day, after a rambling goodbye to the White House staff, his helicopter took off from the White House grounds and…

  By Jane Eisner Oct 20, 2016 | 4 min read
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  Why Israelis Are Right To Oppose the Palestinian ‘Right of Return’

  Dear Editor, There is a fundamental misunderstanding in one of the Forward’s articles, dated October 17 and titled, “If Israel Lets In Palestinian Refugees, Will It Lose Its Jewish Character?” The five million descendants of Arab refugees from the 1948 war who continue to live in 59 refugee facilities administered by UNRWA in Israel, Lebanon,…

  By David Bedein Oct 19, 2016 | < 1 min read
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  How It Felt To See Myself on a Neo-Nazi Hit List for Trump Trolls

  Donald Trump’s neo-Nazi and white supremacist fans were recently given the gift of a website with the harmless-sounding name of “Jews in Modern Society.” As the Forward reported, this website was actually a hit list identifying over 400 Jews meant to be targeted and harassed for the crime of being left-wingers, advocates of multiculturalism or…

  By Ari Paul Oct 19, 2016 | 4 min read
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  It’s Not Just the Palestinians Who Are Getting the UNESCO Temple Mount Resolution All Wrong

  UNESCO’s most recent resolution on Jerusalem is offensive and disrespectful. Passed on October 13 by a vote of 24 to 6, with 26 abstentions, the resolution refers to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall by its Muslim names only, an act which ignores history and fact and negates Jewish and Christian beliefs about the…

  By Eetta Prince-Gibson Oct 19, 2016 | 3 min read
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  Why Jewish Journalists Like Me Face Unprecedented Online Abuse in Age of Trump

  After decades in journalism, you would think that I would be used to this by now. I weathered a barrage of hateful emails when, as editorial page editor of a major regional newspaper, we took a tough line against President Bill Clinton during his impeachment scandal in the 1990s. I had to deal with nasty…

  By Jane Eisner Oct 19, 2016 | 4 min read
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  If Israel Lets in Palestinian Refugees, Will It Lose Its Jewish Character?

  We watched with admiration as Hagai El-Ad of B’Tselem and Lara Friedman of Americans for Peace Now appeared recently before the U.N. Security Council to urge action against the Israeli occupation. The session was framed as a discussion of settlements in the context of “peace” and a “two-state solution.” But behind the occupation lurks an…

  By Joshua Schreier and Mira Sucharov Oct 17, 2016 | 4 min read
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  The Surprising Quirks and Lesser-Known Pleasures of My Dad, Jacob Neusner

  When my siblings and I were growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, our childhood had a soundtrack and it was this: the constant clacking of a typewriter or word processor from the office in the attic. My father, Jacob Neusner, the famed scholar of Judaism who passed away October 8 after penning or editing more…

  By Noam Neusner Oct 17, 2016 | 4 min read