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  Is Bibi Softening His Line on ‘Undivided’ Jerusalem?

  It’s been a week since Bar-Ilan 2, Benjamin Netanyahu’s jarringly hardline policy address October 6 at the university campus where he first endorsed Palestinian statehood in 2009. And so far there’s been almost no public reaction. What little attention there’s been has gone mostly to his defiantly hardline statements on Iran. The important part has…

  By J.J. Goldberg

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  Ralph Miliband Smear Hints at Darker Motive

  Given that The Daily Mail has never liked anyone whose politics are to the left of General Franco, it is hardly surprising that they would not care for Ralph Miliband or indeed his son, Ed. After all, Ralph Miliband was one of the foremost English socialist thinkers and writers of the 20th century. Miliband favoured…

  By Liam Hoare Oct 13, 2013 | 4 min read
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  Good Luck, Nate Lavey and Abigail Jones

  When you run a relatively small news organization in a gigantic city, it’s inevitable that talented staff members will get recruited to bigger jobs. So it’s with a mixture of pride and sadness that I report on the departure of two respected colleagues, Nate Lavey and Abigail Jones. Both originally came here as interns, and…

  By Jane Eisner Oct 12, 2013 | < 1 min read

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  How I Broke ‘Cycle of Assimilation’ Away From Jewish Engagement

  According to the results of the most recent Pew survey of Jewish America, I represent the best hope for the future of the Jewish people. I guess I’d better explain that one. The Pew survey found a significant rise in those who are not religious, marry outside the faith and are not raising their children…

  By Carla Naumburg Oct 12, 2013 | 4 min read
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  The Numbers Show an Intolerant Israel

  Suddenly, there’s a torrent of data — polls of American Jewish opinion (Pew), of Israeli public opinion (Israel Democracy Institute) and illuminating reports on sundry aspects of life, here and in Israel. One such report, one that has lamentably garnered less attention than the public opinion results, is a report published by Peace Now, an…

  By Leonard Fein Oct 12, 2013 | 3 min read
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  Editor’s Choice: Millennials Speak on Pew

  The Forward is partnering with other Jewish newspapers to offer our readers a peek at some of the best stories from around the country, as selected by the editors at those papers. We will offer a selection of unedited links with brief introductions from the editors of the papers. From the Jewish Journal of Los…

  By Forward Staff Oct 11, 2013 | < 1 min read
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  Take Debt Limit to Court. It’s Unconstitutional

  Wait a minute: I still don’t understand why the idea of a debt ceiling is constitutional. The last I heard, the Fourteenth Amendment was still part of the Constitution. Here’s Section 4: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for…

  By J.J. Goldberg Oct 11, 2013 | 3 min read
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  Is Yair Lapid’s Honeymoon Over?

  The Israeli election in January was widely lauded as a testament to the revival of Israel centrism. Coming out of nowhere the brand new Yesh Atid party won 19 seats — almost a sixth of the Knesset’s mandates. Is this revival now over? A poll just conducted for the Globes financial newspaper found that if…

  By Nathan Jeffay Oct 11, 2013 | 2 min read
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  Yair Lapid’s Great American Tour

  Israel’s political golden boy Yair Lapid has been making the rounds in Washington this week, filling up some necessary gaps in his resume. The telegenic Lapid, who until recently was a newspaper columnist and TV host, had hardly had a chance to establish ties with the American political elite before pulling a huge surprise in…

  By Nathan Guttman Oct 11, 2013 | 3 min read
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  When Will Y.U. Learn?

  When will Yeshiva University ever learn? When will modern American Orthodoxy’s flagship institution learn to own up to its mistakes, genuinely reform its procedures, live out its values and, above all, provide a safe and honest environment for its students? The latest revelation, that Y.U. hired a new faculty member who had been convicted of…

  Oct 10, 2013 | 3 min read
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  Rachel Maddow on the ‘Hanukkah Shutdown’

  Rachel Maddow commenting Wednesday night on MSNBC on the new Gallup Poll that showed the Republican Party’s approval rating plummeting to 28%, the lowest for either party since pollsters first began asking the question: “That apparently is the reward that you get if you can stretch your government shutdown to be longer than Hanukkah. It…

  By J.J. Goldberg Oct 10, 2013 | 3 min read