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Jill Stein and the Role of Radical Jewish Women in Politics
Jill Stein has been making waves throughout this especially wave-prone election cycle. Stein, a 66-year-old physician and longtime environmental activist, recently announced her candidacy for president in the 2016 race. This announcement follows her extensive criticism of both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, whose stances, policies and track records Stein has focused on challenging. Stein…
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Opinion J Street Can Fight BDS and Israeli Occupation at the Same Time
Last week, a member of J Street’s senior staff met with Israel’s strategic affairs minister, Gilad Erdan, at his invitation. Their topic of discussion? The fight against the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. This meeting somehow became international news — though it shouldn’t have been newsworthy at all. As the political…
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Opinion 4 Men Who Want To Bring Down Benjamin Netanyahu — and the Tragic Reasons They Won’t
The headlines in Israel called it “the revolt of the generals.” Conservative commentators warned of a “military coup.” In the space of a single day, June 16, no fewer than four former heads of the Israel Defense Forces — there are six currently alive — declared war on the era of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu….
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Opinion Why BDS and Brexit Go Hand in Hand
What do the BDS movement and Brexit have in common? A lot, actually. If you don’t live in Europe, you might not think that Thursday’s referendum on whether or not Great Britain should remain in the European Union has much to do with you. But, if you care about Israel’s economy and are opposed to…
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Opinion The Forward Won’t Publish Anything About Donald Trump for 24 Hours
The attack on journalists, and journalism, that we are witnessing today is of a more significant and far more dangerous order of magnitude than anything I’ve seen over decades in this business. And whereas usually it’s best for a journalist to just grow a thick skin, a supple spine and the ability to ignore the…
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Opinion Today Is World Refugee Day. What Are Jews Doing About It?
World Refugee Day is on June 20, and marks a particularly important time for us to reflect on the work being done in response to the ongoing global refugee crisis. In the Jewish community, and the broader faith and secular communities in the United States and Canada, we have an opportunity to renew our commitment…
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Opinion Israel Needs Help Fighting BDS — and It’s Turning to J Street
Israel is reaching out to J Street, the left-leaning, self-described pro-Israel pro-peace lobby, to cooperate on combating anti-Israel boycott and divestment efforts. The Israeli cabinet member charged with coordinating anti-boycott efforts, Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan, met on June 13 in Jerusalem with the director of J Street’s Israel office, Yael Patir. The meeting was…
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Opinion Inside Israel’s Absurdly Kafkaesque Department of Mysteries
It turns out that when you enroll a kid on a tourist visa in the first grade in Jerusalem, the Ministry of Education doesn’t like it very much. We had come for a sabbatical year; my husband, Nir, is Israeli, so this was home for him, both for family and a lot of his work…
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Opinion Decoding an Anti-Semitic Meme Donald Trump Supporters Took From Anime
In the week since my column on Donald Trump was published, I’ve been avalanched by several hundred anti-Semitic tweets. Pictures of me in a gas chamber, pictures of Trump saying “you’re fired” next to a death camp oven and hundreds of hate tweets calling me a kike, a traitor, a rat and far worse. Others…
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Opinion Why Andrew Cuomo’s BDS Law Should Worry All Israel Supporters
(JTA) — If you’re a supporter of Israel and of the Jewish community, you should be very worried about a new executive order issued by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on June 5. While billed as an initiative to prevent New York state from supporting the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, the law actually constitutes…
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Opinion What We Orthodox Jews Must Do To Save the Western Wall
On Thursday afternoon, around 500 men and women gathered in the Southern Plaza of the Western Wall — a stone piazza commonly used for swearing in soldiers or taking an iconic tourist selfie near Judaism’s holiest site — to hold a defiant afternoon prayer service in response to what they feel was a terrible display…
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