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Trying to influence progressives in New Jersey, AIPAC may actually help one get elected
Did no one in the room voice a concern about the ‘Israel Lobby’ trying to surreptitiously influence the outcome of an election?
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Opinion Amid standoff with US, would Iran really attack Israel?
There's a strong regional precedent for such a move — and serious dangers attached to doing so
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Opinion Hannah Arendt could have anticipated the Trump administration’s lies in Minnesota — and elsewhere
The Jewish philosopher’s essay on ‘Lying in Politics’ applies as much to current politics as it did to Vietnam
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Opinion With the last hostage released, is American Jewish unity over?
The hostage crisis brought together a fractured community. Now that it's over, the divisions over Israel are back
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Opinion Here’s exactly why it’s dangerous to compare ICE to Nazis
If everything is Nazism, than nothing is
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Letters Actually, many Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews support Mamdani
Recent reporting suggested our communities hold less nuanced political opinions than we do
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Opinion In Bruce Springsteen’s new anti-ICE protest song, a nod to Minnesota’s own Bob Dylan
Calling out Donald Trump, Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller by name, Springsteen conjures up his own 'Desolation Row'
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Opinion Should we be comparing ICE agents to Hitler’s ‘Brownshirts?’
In the deaths of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, unsettling parallels to 1933 Germany
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Opinion What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank hiding from ICE
Is it reasonable to invoke the memory of the horrors Frank suffered outside of a strictly Jewish context?
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Opinion Minnesota, Rabbi Tarfon and the language of horror
How an ancient Jewish sage counsels us to be part of the 'coalition of the horrified'
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Opinion On Holocaust Remembrance Day, warning signs of our contemporary society crumbling
Citizens shot dead in the streets. Eugenics on the rise. We can't forget where these patterns might lead
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Fast Forward Chabad ‘let me down,’ suspect said, in hours before allegedly attacking their headquarters
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