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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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Letters 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,…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion You Don’t Have To Be a Zionist To Know UNESCO’s Temple Mount Resolution Is Insane
As a Haredi Jew with a non-Zionist perspective — that is to say, I do not consider the State of Israel to be the Third Jewish Commonwealth — I feel no compulsion to defend any position or move of any Israeli government. I am not a nationalist. I believe that only when the Messiah arrives…
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Opinion Why the Fight Over Israeli Settlements Is Reaching a Boiling Point
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is caught in a tightening pincer of opposing pressures as his government faces a court-ordered December 25 deadline to dismantle the West Bank’s oldest and largest illegal settlement outpost. The main combatants include Israel’s Supreme Court, the settler movement and the Obama administration. Caught in the middle are Netanyahu and…
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