The unrest in Israel is not over the judicial overhaul — it’s an identity crisis
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Fast Forward U.K. Rabbi To Congregation: Don’t Vote For Corbyn!
A prominent rabbi, writer and broadcaster in the U.K. has taken the unprecedented step of urging his congregation to vote against Labour in the country’s upcoming elections to push back against the party’s history of anti-Semitic rhetoric, even with Brexit on the horizon. The rabbi singled out the party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who has been…
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Fast Forward ‘I Want Jexit!’ Written On American Federations Of Teachers Building
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Federation of Teachers said vandals defaced its headquarters in Washington D.C. with anti-Semitic graffiti. A number of areas around the building, including a wall, were yellow spray-painted on Tuesday and Wednesday with “I want Jexit!” an apparent anti-Semitic play on “Brexit,” Britain’s planned pullout from the European Union. Randi Weingarten,…
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Opinion I’m A British Jew. Jeremy Corbyn Is Not A Threat To Us.
Last week, the three Jewish newspapers in Britain made a point of publishing the same front page editorial to highlight the “existential threat to Jewish life” that a Jeremy Corbyn-led government would pose to British Jews. I am a life-long Labour supporter, a 52-year-old British Jew, born and bred in the outer suburbs of London…
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Life Daily Mail ‘Brexit’ Headline Mixes Objectification And Gibberish
It’s a little-known fact that most women’s torsos are propped up by these things called legs. Are you a woman? Glance down and you might yet see the body parts in question. The Daily Mail has inspired outrage (and gotten in hot water) for running a cover photo of Theresa May, British Prime Minister, with…
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Opinion How and Why Tribes Are Taking Over
The world is going to hell, and it turns out Jean-Paul Sartre almost got it right. Sartre’s wartime play, “No Exit,” starts like a lame joke: a pacifist, a lesbian and a murderer die and go to hell. But the cruel joke is on them. There are no corporeal flames, only a conscious inferno: the…
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Breaking News British Jews Warn America: Brexit Vote Shows Donald Trump Could Win
(JTA) — If you’re a Jewish-American liberal who believes that Donald Trump could never become president, British Jews have one word of warning: Brexit. Following the shocking referendum vote in June favoring a British exit from the European Union, many British Jews now believe that their liberal circles and cosmopolitan lifestyles had left them largely…
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Breaking News ‘Openly Gay’ Brexit Judge Smeared by British Press
The famously combustible British tabloids were incensed by a decision by the U.K. High Court of Justice on November 3, that a simple majority in a referendum was not enough to change the de facto British constitution and leave the European Union without ratification by Parliament. Though the court, and most legal scholars, view the…
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