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  4 Questions To Ask Before Wearing the Safety Pin, From a Jew of Color

  If I — a multi-heritage, brown, Jewish man — get chased down by neo-Nazis and find someone wearing a safety pin, how will I know if that person will actually do what it takes to save my life? Do they really know what they’re signing up for? I’ve found myself wondering this over the past…

  By Jared Jackson

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  Let’s Create New Jewish Rituals To Cope With the Trump Era

  In the wake of this toxic election season and its deeply destabilizing outcome, many people have been scrambling for ways to react, to process and to organize. From this environment of confusion, many small Jewish grassroots efforts have sprung up, trying to find ways to understand and react to a new world — through the…

  By Lana Adler Nov 21, 2016 | < 1 min read
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  I Vowed Never To Talk Politics From My Pulpit. Then Trump Came Along.

  Every era has its pivotal where-were-you-when-you-heard-that-x-happened moment. Where were you when you heard that President Kennedy was assassinated? That the Reverend Martin Luther King was murdered? That astronaut Neil Armstrong landed on the moon? These events are watershed moments that shatter our routine and make us challenge fundamental assumptions about the world around us. They…

  By Ysoscher Katz Nov 20, 2016 | 4 min read

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  7 Rules for Surviving Thanksgiving With Your Trump-Loving Family

  My father has the Trump lawn sign. And the bumper sticker. And the hat. And the T-shirt. “Make America Great Again,” they say. Ever since he was shot at during a robbery in his drugstore, my once liberal father has become increasingly conservative. He is a regular Hannity listener and O’Reilly watcher. As I’ve gotten…

  By Michael Rothbaum Nov 20, 2016 | 3 min read
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  Faced With Steve Bannon, Jewish Groups Need To Reach Out to Decent Republicans

  As Donald Trump takes his first steps toward staffing his administration, he’s confronting us with yet another conundrum: What to do when the leader of the world’s greatest democracy makes Steve Bannon his designated chief strategist? Bannon, the man who took over the right-wing provocateur website Breitbart News and turned it into the central bulletin…

  By J.J. Goldberg Nov 18, 2016 | 4 min read
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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 Nov 17, 2016 | 2 min read
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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