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News Charlottesville Jews Are Stuck With Town’s Infamy After White Supremacist March
The letters and emails began arriving at Congregation Beth Israel, in Charlottesville, Virginia, days after the city turned into the symbol of America’s new battle against white supremacy in the Trump era. It took that long for Americans to grasp the deeply anti-Semitic nature of the events that rocked the nation — until news emerged…
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Culture From Gorka To Carlebach: The Forward Staff’s Favorite Articles Of 2017
2017 has, collectively, been few people’s ideas of a fun year. Still, it’s welcomed a wealth of excellent journalism. While we’ve previously celebrated work from other outlets, the Forward’s staff has also chosen our own most exceptional work from this year — our 120th in business. My picks include Sam Kestenbaum’s deeply reported “How This…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Dismayed By Supreme Court Approval Of Travel Ban
(JTA) — Jewish groups expressed disappointment that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld, for now, President Trump’s ban on travelers from six countries with Muslim majorities and two others. On Monday, the court issued an unsigned order to lower courts to rehear arguments on the ban, and said the ban may be fully enforced until the…
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Community ADL’s Greenblatt Reviewed A Book On Anti-Semitism That He Doesn’t Seem To Have Read
When Jewish Voice for Peace put together our book, “On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice,” we did so out of a shared sense that progressive circles needed to have a deeper conversation about anti-Semitism. We put it out into the world to be able to have that conversation, fully expecting that some people…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Slam Trump For Anti-Muslim Retweets
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An array of national Jewish groups condemned President Trump for his retweet of three incendiary videos posted by a British anti-Muslim agitator. “It is no longer alarming that our @POTUS is tweeting violent anti-Muslim videos created by far right extremists – it is a four alarm fire,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of…
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Community When Criticism Of Israel Becomes Anti-Semitism
At the Anti-Defamation League, we have spent more than 100 years fighting anti-Semitism, often referred to as the world’s oldest hatred. And we have labored to distinguish between a more modern phenomenon –- when criticism of Israel can be considered legitimate political conversation and when it crosses the line into insidious anti-Semitism. We feel obligated…
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Opinion If We Can’t Write About Nazis, They Win
On November 25, the New York Times published an incredible piece of journalism, a profile of a Nazi sympathizer in mainstream rural America. The piece, A Voice of Hate in America’s Heartland, describes how a Midwestern guy-next-door came to develop pro-Nazi and white nationalist sympathies. What was shocking was not that Tony Hovater held the…
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Opinion I’m A Latina Who Works For The ADL. JVP’s Attacks Shocked Me
I’m a non-Jewish Latina who works at the Anti-Defamation League. I love this work. I’m proud of this work. I’ve taken up the cause of fighting anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry because, as a Latina, I can’t simply be concerned with anti-immigrant or anti-Latino hate. To be effective in building a more equal and…
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