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  Israelis Support Paris Jews — With ‘Charlie’ Pun

  Photo by Naomi Zeveloff As a million people gathered in today’s Paris march, French Jewish immigrants stood in solidarity with their co-religionists abroad, first at a post-Sabbath rally outside the French Embassy in Tel Aviv and then on Sunday at Jerusalem’s City Hall. Hundreds of French Jews gathered in a conference room for the Jerusalem…

  By Naomi Zeveloff

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  Tefillin Stand Near Paris Siege Draws Mixed Response

  A Lubavitch Jew had passersby put on tefillin yards from the besieged kosher market / Twitter (JTA) — Standing for hours behind that yellow police line Friday, many of us could feel our patience running out as we waited idly near the Porte de Vincennes metro station for news from the hostage situation that was going…

  By Cnaan Liphshiz Jan 11, 2015 | 2 min read
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  My Wife Doesn’t Get How Important Kaddish Is to Me

  The Seesaw is a new kind of advice column in which a broad range of columnists will address the real life issues faced by interfaith couples and families. Read the discussion and vote below for what you think is the best response to this particular quandary. You can email your own questions, which will remain…

  Jan 11, 2015 | 4 min read

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  Yes, It’s About French Muslims and Anti-Semitism

  I was on Melissa Harris-Perry’s show on MSNBC this morning, talking about anti-Semitism in France in the context of the Charlie Hebdo and kosher grocery attacks this week. It was a 5-minute segment in the course of a two-hour panel discussion (which I was not part of) on the attacks, terrorism in France, free expression…

  By J.J. Goldberg Jan 10, 2015 | 3 min read
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  #JeSuisJuif Hashtag Spreads After Paris Terror

  (JTA) — In the wake of Wednesday’s deadly attack on the offices of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper, the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie (“I Am Charlie”) swept the internet in solidarity with the victims. Then came #JeSuisAhmed, to honor Ahmed Merabet, the Muslim police officer murdered during the Charlie Hebdo attacks, and who has become a symbol of inclusion…

  By Anthony Weiss Jan 10, 2015 | 2 min read
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  Lessons of Paris — and War on Terror

  When you’re at war, it’s not enough simply to pick up a gun and start shooting. The other side will be doing the same thing. Of course you want to be tough and show you won’t be bullied. The trouble is, so do they. To succeed in war, you need to know certain things. You…

  By J.J. Goldberg Jan 9, 2015 | 5 min read
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  How To Respond to Bloody Paris Terror? With Reason — and Rage

  This is a week for rage and grief. First, radical Islamist gunmen assassinated 10 journalists at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris. And as if that were not horrific enough, a second attack at a kosher grocery store, with four people dead. Apparently, simply being Jewish is now as offensive as drawing a cartoon –…

  By Jay Michaelson Jan 9, 2015 | 4 min read
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  How I Covered the Paris Hostage Siege

  Police arrive on the scene of the hostage crisis in eastern Paris.// Laurent-David Samama It was mid-morning when I saw several police cars rushing into my street with their sirens on. Even glimpsed through my window, the situation looked unusual. In light of the recent massacre at Charlie Hebdo, I was suspicious, and headed out…

  By Laurent-David Samama Jan 9, 2015 | 2 min read
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  The Zionist Election You Can Participate In — If Your Elbows Are Sharp

  Fed up with the American Jewish community and the big-mouth nobodies who think they own it? Good news: There’s going to be an election. And you can vote. No, really. An actual, honest-to-goodness election. From January 15 until April 30 you can go online, pay $10 to register and cast a vote for a delegation…

  By J.J. Goldberg Jan 9, 2015 | 5 min read
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  ‘Selma’ Got It Right by Leaving Out Jews

  A still from the new film ‘Selma’ Leida Snow’s review of the new film “Selma” takes director Ava DuVernay to task for a “glaring omission” — airbrushing out the contributions of white people in general, and Jews in particular, to the civil rights movement. But Snow makes this critique by drawing selectively from American Jewish…

  By Katie Rosenblatt Jan 9, 2015 | 3 min read
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  Why HarperCollins Was So Wrong To Erase Israel

  (JTA) — Before the HarperCollins Middle East atlas story is deleted from email inboxes, it pays to spend another moment ruminating on the damage caused by companies that ought to know better. On its website, HarperCollins bills itself as “one of the world’s leading English-language publishers.” It has a storied brand and a list of top-notch…

  By Daniel S. Mariaschin Jan 8, 2015 | 3 min read