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  British Union Chooses Sanctions Over Israeli Workers

  The British Trades Union Congress this September passed a resolution reaffirming its position against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. There’s nothing wrong with, or unusual about, left-wing trade unionists showing solidarity with the dispossessed. What is unusual — and troubling — is the line dictating that TUC affiliates review their bilateral relations with all…

  By Ari Paul

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  Who Shall Die?

  According to Amnesty International, the United States ranked fifth in the world in the number of its citizens who were executed in 2010. And what company we keep! China, Iran, North Korea and Yemen bested us in this dubious competition, but at least we beat out Saudi Arabia. How’s that for American exceptionalism? Ever since…

  Oct 3, 2011 | 3 min read
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  More Miracles from the Holy Land: Divers Find Life in the Dead Sea

  A team of scientific researcher-divers has discovered what may be the ultimate oxymoron: life at the bottom of the Dead Sea. National Geographic has an amazing report on the expedition, said to be the first-ever scientific dive to the depths of the world’s lowest spot. What they found was a series of craters on the…

  By J.J. Goldberg Oct 2, 2011 | < 1 min read

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• Jay Michaelson American Jews were played — now what?

  

• Rob Eshman A new humanitarian outrage is unfolding in the Middle East. It’s not in Gaza

  

• Nora Berman The left is turning on AOC over Israel — and imperiling its own agenda

  

• Dan Perry Actually, Trump made things between Israel and Iran way worse

  

• Emily Tamkin Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves it: The ‘gotcha’ mode of fighting antisemitism has to go

  

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  Has Obama Lost the Jews? Don’t Ask the Polls

  President Obama got an unpleasant New Year’s greeting from the American Jewish Committee just before Rosh Hashanah: A survey of American Jewish opinion showing his job performance got a failing grade from a plurality of Jews for the first time in his presidency. It may be the lowest Jewish rating for a Democratic president since…

  By J.J. Goldberg Sep 30, 2011 | 5 min read
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  Fast and Famine

  For many American Jews, the Yom Kippur fast is a vehicle of both repentance and connection. We focus inward on our personal failings, and outward toward a world where hunger is a constant, not a 25-hour interruption in lives of bounty. A fast is not a famine, but a fast can at least prompt us…

  Sep 30, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  Do It Together

  Jay Michaelson writes in his September 16 column of his delight and empowerment in D.I.Y. — Do it Yourself — Judaism. While he acknowledges that Judaism has always been a tradition of direct access, where we are “each responsible for our own religious lives,” he writes, “only a small minority of non-Orthodox Jews live this…

  Sep 29, 2011 | 2 min read
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  Shelly Yachimovich’s Election Marks New Era in Israeli Politics

  With the election of Shelly Yachimovich to head Israel’s Labor Party, two major political parties are led by women for the first time in the country’s history. This is an encouraging development not only because it helps advance gender fairness in Israeli society, but also because it potentially signals a new era for Israeli politics,…

  By Elana Sztokman Sep 29, 2011 | 4 min read
• Letters

  Federal Funds for Security

  The Forward’s September 16, 2011 news story and editorial questioning the federal Nonprofit Security Grant Program because it purportedly disproportionately serves Jewish institutions (and Orthodox institutions, at that), betrays several profound misunderstandings about the program’s purpose, government’s role in supporting non-profits, and the Orthodox community’s leading role in the Jewish organizational world. The news story’s…

  Sep 29, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  The Role of Women

  In response to your September 30 article, “Jewish and Muslim Leaders: Better Together,” we would like to voice our agreement that Jewish-Muslim cooperation and dialogue, especially since 9/11, is a hopeful phenomenon for both communities and for America. We believe that dialogue is a fundamental building block for mutual respect, inter-group harmony and peaceful co-existence….

  Sep 29, 2011 | < 1 min read
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  The Registry of What?

  After a week of disappointing speeches at the United Nations, each – Obama, Abbas, Netanyahu – distinctly graceless, plus a debate of nine would-be Republican presidential nominees, including Doc Gingrich, Grumpy Ron Paul, Dopey Michelle Bachmann, Sneezy Santorum and Happy Herman Cain and five more dwarfs (but no Bashful), to say nothing of the slide…

  By Leonard Fein Sep 29, 2011 | 3 min read
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  New Year’s Greetings From the IDF Chief of Staff

  Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, offers a 2-1/2 minute video new year’s greeting to “Jewish people in Israel and around the world.” Here’s the Hebrew version, in which he says mostly the same things but sounds a lot better, if you can follow it. He’s got a nice…

  By J.J. Goldberg Sep 28, 2011 | < 1 min read