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Opinion The Sick Double Standard In The Ilhan Omar Controversy
The following two things are true. First, Representative Ilhan Omar was wrong to tweet that the American government’s support of Israel is “all about the Benjamins.” Secondly, she’s being judged by a grotesque double standard. Her fiercest critics in Congress are guiltier of bigotry than she is. Omar’s tweet was inaccurate. Yes, of course, AIPAC’s…
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Letters Letter | Show Some Respect For Jewish Institutions
Twice last week, The Forward published articles accusing American Jewish institutions of “betraying us” and “selling us out.” The authors of these articles accuse institutions — specifically the American Jewish Committee and Anti-Defamation League — of abdicating their responsibility to the American Jewish community by supporting right-wing, racist leaders in Brazil, America, and Israel instead…
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Fast Forward President Trump Nods To Anti-Abortion Push At Prayer Breakfast
In comments at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday morning, President Trump nodded to his religiously conservative audience, promising he would “never let [them] down,” while signaling his support for proposed anti-abortion restrictions. “All children are made in the holy image of God. Every life is sacred and every soul is a precious gift from…
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Opinion When American Jewish Institutions Praise Trump, They Betray Us
On Tuesday night, President Trump addressed the nation in a speech that used Jews as cover for bigotry. After a speech filled with hate-mongering against immigrants and abortion, Trump led a rendition of “Happy Birthday” to the Holocaust and Pittsburgh shooting survivor Judah Samet, one of two Holocaust survivors in attendance. “We must never ignore…
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Opinion Trump Just Revealed He Can Change. Will Jews Listen?
On Tuesday, President Trump addressed the nation with his second State Of The Union address. His supporters loved the speech. His detractors hated it. Nancy Pelosi’s sarcastic-seeming clap became a gif. #waybackwednesday – oh yes that clap took me back to the teen years. She knows. And she knows that you know. And frankly she’s…
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Opinion Trump Isn’t Fighting Anti-Semitism. He’s Fanning Its Flames.
In last night’s State of the Union address, President Trump cited his accomplishments fighting anti-Semitism. He noted his rejection of the Iran nuclear accord and his move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. He also brought two Holocaust survivors to the address, one of whom narrowly escaped the Pittsburgh massacre in the Tree of Life…
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Fast Forward Trump Names Anti-Semitism Monitor After Two Years Of Leaving The Post Empty
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Trump is set to name a Los Angeles prosecutor to be the State Department’s envoy for anti-Semitism, filling a post that sat empty for two years despite protests from lawmakers and Jewish groups. Elan Carr, 50, is a U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq and was national president of the…
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Fast Forward Trump State Of The Union Links Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack To Iran
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump in his State of the Union linked his actions targeting Iran to the threat to Jews manifested in the October massacre on Jewish worshippers in Pittsburgh. Trump also bookended his speech with references to D-Day, including salutes to troops, among them Jewish American veterans, that helped liberate Europe, and…
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Fast Forward The invitation said, ‘No Jews.’ The response from campus officials, at least, was real.
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Opinion A Holocaust perpetrator was just celebrated on US soil. I think I know why no one objected.
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Fast Forward Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements
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News At Harvard, reports on antisemitism and anti-Palestinian bias reflect campus conflict over Israel
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Opinion Is JB Pritzker’s very Jewish toughness the key to fighting Trump?
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