This is the Forward’s coverage of U.S. president Donald Trump and his relationship to the Jewish community.
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Culture This is The Way We Need To Live in Trump’s America
What is left to be said, my Lord, that hasn’t been said already? I’ve read the editorials and the think pieces, the prognostications and eulogies for freedom. Everyone’s blaming everyone but themselves. And how many contradictory explanations for what went wrong and why and where we are now, what it means, what it portends and…
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News Standing With Muslims: Chicago Jews Grapple With Challenge on Eve of Trump Era
Amid the rising fears that minorities harbor about the coming Trump era, Jewish leaders here are fiercely debating: What is to be done? Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s personal appeal to Trump in a December 7 meeting to preserve the Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and give up his plans for large-scale deportations of immigrants…
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Culture Harper Lee Warned Us About Donald Trump — But We Weren’t Listening
Harper Lee tried to warn America. Twice. The first time she was redirected, politely, to take her nascent characters in a different direction. Lee accepted the editorial advice and produced “To Kill a Mockingbird,” an instant feel-good classic about how great white people can be to and for others. Central to this mythology is Atticus…
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Fast Forward Major Jewish Groups To Snub Presidents Conference Trump Hotel Hanukkah Party
Four major Jewish organizations will not attend a Hanukkah party co-hosted by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations at a Washington, D.C., hotel owned by President-elect Donald Trump. The Jewish Federations of North America, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America will not be…
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Culture Did This Novel Foretell America Under Trump?
One morning back in early January, 2015, I sat down to write the novel that would become “Tell Me How This Ends Well.” I wanted to write something that explored American Jewish identity and that captured what it meant to be living through great political unrest and a sharp rise in anti-Semitism here at home…
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Culture It’s Trump’s America — and the Era of the Pitchforks Has Just Begun
The morning of November 9, nobody in my subway car was looking at each other. Normally, avoidance of eye contact is a gesture of civility, the way New Yorkers grant each other pockets of mental space when physical space is scarce. And normally, a moment of mutual acknowledgment precedes the retreat into aloofness. The morning…
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Culture Why I Do Not and Will Not Live in Donald Trump’s America
In President Obama’s remarks on Donald Trump’s election, he said that “we are now all rooting for his success in uniting and leading the country.” With all due respect to the President, I’m not. I’m not united behind Trump’s dismantling of NATO, the squandering of our Cold War victory, the abandonment of our allies or…
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Culture Why Trump’s Victory Makes Me Fear For My Family
My parents are good people. They made me feel safe while I was growing up; they’ve supported my goals and shared in my greatest joys and pains. They are loyal friends, phenomenal grandparents, philanthropic, well-traveled and well-read. They raised not only me but also my mentally disabled brother. You probably know where I’m going with…
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