Mondaire Jones wants progressives, Jewish voters to boost his bid for Brooklyn House seat
Jones defended his alliance with candidate Yuh-Line Niou against frontrunner Dan Goldman. Niou has associated herself with BDS supporters
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Fast Forward Citing implicit call for violence, BDS movement disavows Boston map
The BDS National Committee, which controls the movement, disavowed the Mapping Project
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News Appeals court upholds anti-BDS law as ‘purely commercial’
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals said an Arkansas law targeting boycotts of Israel did not restrict speech
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Fast Forward A new project aims to help Jewish groups do social justice better
Avodah, a New York-based Jewish social justice organization, was hearing the same thing from Jewish group after Jewish group: They wanted to start social action projects, or see more concrete progress on ones already in place — but didn’t know how. In response, Avodah launched the Avodah Institute for Social Change, a program that will…
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Opinion Sunrise DC was wrong. But liberal Jewish groups remain complicit in occupation
From the moment the statement dropped on Twitter, it was entirely predictable what would happen next. After Sunrise DC announced they were withdrawing from a voting rights coalition because of the participation of three major Jewish organizations on Tuesday, Oct. 19, many leaders in the Jewish community labeled Sunrise DC’s behavior as antisemitic, which major…
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Opinion How to lie with statistics, antisemitism edition
If 174,000 American Jews had been physically attacked in the past year, you’d think we’d all have heard about it. That’s roughly five times the number of Jews who were assaulted, had their businesses vandalized or were sent to concentration camps during Kristallnacht, the worst pogrom of the 20th century. Yet that’s the tsunami of…
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Opinion Sally Rooney’s translation debacle is a political stunt that misses the plot
There is no honor in boycotting a language and a people. And yet that is what Sally Rooney has effectively done, despite her statement to the contrary, by blocking Hebrew translation of her new novel, “Beautiful World, Where Are You” by Modan Publishing House. Hebrew belongs to no one nation state. It is an ancient…
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Opinion Sally Rooney’s refusal to work with an Israeli publisher is antisemitic — just like all of BDS
It was already clear that something was up with acclaimed novelist Sally Rooney when I read her 2018 book “Normal People” and the characters randomly started bashing Israel: “They went to a protest against the war in Gaza…Marianne wanted her life to mean something then, she wanted to stop all violence committed by the strong…
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Haart to Haart
Virtual
Dec 7, 2022
7 pm ET ·
A conversation with Julia Haart and her son Shlomo, stars of Netflix's 'My Unorthodox Life,' about the new season and much more.