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  I Won’t Cry Over Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Fall From Power

  I don’t know Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was just forced to resign as the head of the Democratic National Committee, but I always secretly identified with her. We are both ambitious New York-born Jewish women of modest height and outsized energy, with three children — and very curly hair. But I’d like to believe, especially…

  By Jane Eisner

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  As We Approach Tisha b’Av, the Jewish Future Again Hangs in the Balance

  Calendar alert: Saturday, July 23, coincided this year with the 17th of Tammuz on the Hebrew calendar. That means we’ve now entered the traditional mourning period known as The Three Weeks. The 17th of Tammuz is a minor fast day, dawn to dusk, commemorating the Roman legions’ breaching of the walls of Jerusalem in the…

  By J.J. Goldberg Jul 25, 2016 | 4 min read
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  How Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s DNC Tried To Weaponize Bernie Sanders’s Jewishness

  It was around this time last year that I first waded into coverage of the 2016 presidential race for this newspaper, asking whether Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist, was being subjected to anti-Semitic treatment from his critics. The short answer was that in some cases yes, in some cases no, so we better…

  By Ari Paul Jul 24, 2016 | 3 min read

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  Hillary Clinton and the Myths Jewish Democrats Like To Tell Themselves

  Some of my best friends are Democrats, and they haven’t embraced this party loyalty foolishly or without due consideration. In their minds, they have their own best interests — and the interests of this nation — at heart. When they vote Democratic, donate Democratic and affiliate Democratic, they act with the sincere belief that they…

  By Noam Neusner Jul 24, 2016 | 17 min read
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  How Orthodox Jews Can Fight Islamophobia — by Taking a Lesson from Sikhs

  Running my habitual ten minutes late (hey, it’s Standard Jewish Time), I tried to slip quietly into a packed Islamophobia seminar on the UC Berkeley campus. I shuffled my way to a seat, attracting a couple of glances — followed by double takes from a few classmates who knew me. I understood the quizzical looks….

  By Sara Weissman Jul 24, 2016 | 3 min read
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  How Both the Left and the Right Get Israel’s Gay Rights Struggle Wrong

  Jerusalem’s gay pride parade, in which I marched on Thursday, was full of contradictions. On the one hand, Israeli politicians competed to show their support for the march. Likud MK Gilad Erdan came with his posse of security guards, and party members waved Yesh Atid banners in the march’s staging area. On the other hand,…

  By Raphael Magarik Jul 24, 2016 | 3 min read
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  Sorry, Evangelicals, You Can’t Play the Trump Card and the God Card at Same Time

  Did you catch Donald Trump on “60 Minutes” recently, when he gave the first interview with his new running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence? Lesley Stahl was asking about the “chemistry between you two” — it sounded as if she were interviewing them for a dating website — noting that Pence was very low-key and…

  By Jane Eisner Jul 24, 2016 | 4 min read
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  One-Year-Old Iran Deal Came With a Hefty Price Tag — in Human Lives

  A crazy, cunning man named Max is terrorizing your town. Max — who likes to go by “Supreme Leader” — has a long history of violent assaults, extortion and robbery. He’s been jailed, fined, publicly humiliated. But with a winning smile and an uncanny ability to sound reasonable, he manages to recruit followers who are…

  By David Hazony Jul 24, 2016 | 4 min read
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  Laura Ingraham Didn’t Do a Heil Hitler — and Saying She Did Is Part of the Problem

  We Republicans have a great deal of work on our hands to fathom how we nominated the worst Presidential nominee in American history and then how we let him lead our party over a cliff in Cleveland this week. Liberals, however, have some self-reflection to do as well. It couldn’t have been more evident than…

  By Bethany Mandel Jul 22, 2016 | 4 min read
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  Why Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Might Not Be as Crazy as It Sounds

  At a recent campaign rally, Donald Trump defended former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s record on terrorism, noting that Hussein was a “bad guy” who was nevertheless very efficient at “killing terrorists.” House Speaker Paul Ryan immediately distanced himself from Trump’s remarks, and leading Republican donors jumped in with criticism as well. Throughout his campaign, Trump…

  By Josh Cohen Jul 22, 2016 | 4 min read
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  Donald Trump’s Messianic Vision for America

  I do not recognize the America that Donald Trump described last night in his endless speech accepting the Republican nomination for President. I expect the nominee of the party out of power to rail about what’s gone wrong in the four or eight years of the incumbent administration — our system is set up as…

  By Jane Eisner Jul 22, 2016 | 3 min read