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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…
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Opinion 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,…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion After This Election, Americans Have Lost Faith in Polling. Should Jews?
One casualty of the election: people’s faith in surveys. We relied on polls to help us understand the election and they seemingly failed us. Although pre-election polls came within 1-2% of predicting the national popular vote, state polls that were the basis for Electoral College predictions were far less accurate. Whether and how to use…
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Opinion Why You Need the Forward in the Age of Donald Trump — and We Need You Even More
Dear Forward Reader: If you’re like me, you’ve been experiencing a whirlwind of emotions over last week’s political earthquake: Fear. Anger. Confusion. Here at the Forward, we’re feeling those feelings too. But we’re also feeling something else: Drive. Purpose. Resolve. At this critical time, independent journalism matters more than ever. If you’ve been waiting for…
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Opinion Donald Trump, Support a Two-State Solution. It’s the Only Way.
On January 20, Donald Trump will assume the presidency of the United States, and his administration will undertake the immense responsibility of shaping American foreign policy. It is difficult to ascertain precisely what Trump’s approach will be to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, given the disparate statements that he and his advisors have made during the course…
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