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Fast Forward The GOP platform: Supporting Israel, Fighting ‘anti-Christian bias’ and deporting ‘pro-Hamas radicals’
Pledges to fight antisemitism and to keep Israel secure dovetail with the longstanding Republican ambition to erode the Democrats’ large historical advantage among Jewish voters
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Culture Talmudic wisdom holds Trump to a higher standard than the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court just granted Trump presidential immunity, but the Talmud held leaders to a higher standard
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Opinion Trump’s lies are more dangerous than ever — does Jewish law have a solution?
After the first presidential debate, it's clear that Americans must take the threat of a public culture defined by lies seriously
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Looking Forward Biden’s rabbi and I debate whether it’s time for the president to step aside
Jewish text reminds us there's a time to lead, and a time to pass the torch.
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Opinion Sigmund Freud understood the uncanny sensation we all felt watching the Trump-Biden debate
In 1919, Freud wrote about how something all too familiar can morph into a shockingly unfamiliar nightmare
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Opinion Trump used the debate to court a major Israeli-American donor. Palestinians will pay the price
The former president wants Miriam Adelson to make good on a promised donation — and he made sure the whole country knows
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Fast Forward What Biden and Trump said about Israel — and Hitler — during the first presidential debate
Moderator Dana Bash asked Trump whether he favored the creation of a Palestinian state
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Culture Moses needed Aaron to communicate. Biden could have used him in debate.
The president, going against Trump, had a failure to communicate
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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Fast Forward Chabad rabbi killed in United Arab Emirates; Israel denounces ‘despicable antisemitic act’
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Fast Forward Rep. Ritchie Torres, outspoken pro-Israel advocate, is dropping hints that he could run for NY governor
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Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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