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Community We Have 44 Days Until President Trump. Will Obama Recognize a Palestinian State Before Then?
Anxiety continues to roil through the pro-Israel world over a possible last-minute political move by the Obama administration that could permanently alter the Israeli-Palestinian geopolitical landscape. 48 hours after the Nov 8 election, I flew to South Florida for a series of lectures and briefings organized by StandWithUs, NOVA Southeast University and other organizations as…
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Opinion The ‘Real’ Benjamin Netanyahu Shows Brusque Side — and Steps on His Own Message
Jerusalem — Those who know Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu far better than I do said that the real Bibi was on display as he addressed the International Jewish Media Summit in Jerusalem Tuesday night. In that case, Netanyahu — the only Israeli elected prime minister three times in a row, the man who says…
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Community We Need a Dose of Honesty To Battle the ‘Alt Right’ — Not Jews for Jesus
Concerns over the rise of political and nationalistic hostility toward Jews are valid, but they are not new. The latest surge should not propel us in a panic toward false and even dangerous solutions and alliances. The Forward’s November 30 article “Are Jews for Jesus a Secret Weapon in Anti-Semitism Fight With the ‘Alt-Right’?” makes…
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News Expert on Hate Opposes Campus Anti-Semitism Bill — Based on Definition He Created
A controversial anti-Semitism bill sailing through Congress has a new critic: The expert who wrote the definition on which the bill is based. Kenneth Stern, formerly the American Jewish Committee’s specialist on anti-Semitism and extremism, says that the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2016, which aims to combat campus anti-Semitism, is “both unconstitutional and unwise.” Stern…
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News Abe Foxman: Anti-Semitism ‘Sewer Covers Are Off’ — But I’m Optimistic on Trump
“The sun is still shining,” Abe Foxman boomed over the phone from Southern California, where it was “men’s week” at the Golden Door spa in San Marcos, about 35 miles north of San Diego. It was an overcast afternoon in New York. But Foxman was paying one of his twice yearly visits last week to…
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Community You Won’t Believe This Anti-Semitic Swedish Cartoon
A Facebook friend from Sweden shared a post criticizing this cartoon. The image was published Nov 20 on Dagens Nyheter, one of Sweden’s leading newspapers. Usually I would not react to these types of provocations, but this particular one made me gag in my mouth a little bit extra. Antisemitic comic strip in large Swedish…
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Community Now is Not the Time for Single-Issue Advocacy
As we enter unchartered political waters, American Jews are asking ourselves and our communal leaders hard questions. How can we make a real difference individually and collectively? Who in our community is poised to stand up for core Jewish and American values that we previously took for granted? Which advocacy organizations should we get involved…
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Opinion Why Do I Suddenly Like Ben Shapiro, Even Though I Hate His Politics?
The other day I happened to catch an interview with a very conservative pundit, Ben Shapiro, formerly of Breitbart News. He resigned after a Breitbart reporter was aggressively grabbed at a Donald Trump rally and the Breitbart organization, instead of defending its reporter, attacked the reporter for creating an incident that supposedly never happened. The…
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