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Opinion Why Engaging With Israel Is Essential
It sounds like an exaggeration, but you know it’s true. You can walk into just about any Jewish gathering place — a synagogue, a social club, a Shabbat dinner — and challenge the very existence of God or the sanctity of Torah, and your religious and ethnic fealty will not be questioned. But dare express…
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Opinion For Shame: These Jewish Lawmakers Take Money From The NRA
Just four months ago, Forward editor-in-chief Jane Eisner penned this plea for action against gun violence. Her words seem all the more prescient now that another deadly shooting has erupted — this time at a high school in the heart of south Florida’s Jewish community. As is its custom, the National Rifle Association has gone…
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Opinion What The Forward Really Said About Gorka — And Why We’re Proud We Did
Sebastian Gorka, who left his post as deputy special assistant to the president last week, is using interviews with friendly media outlets to lambast liberal American Jews and the Forward, claiming that we attacked him solely because of his views on Israel. The Forward has written a lot about Gorka, but we have never attacked…
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Opinion For Shame
There is a moral vacuum at the head of the republic. After three days of reflection about the events of Charlottesville, Virginia, Donald Trump reiterated at a press conference Tuesday afternoon that there was “blame on both sides.” This he followed up with the claim that there were “very fine people” on both sides of…
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Opinion How Trolling Journalists Harms Democracy
When the anti-Semitic emails and nasty messages on social media bombarded Jewish journalists last year, those of us receiving this online harassment knew that it was an outgrowth of the contentious presidential campaign, especially from supporters of Donald Trump. As the attacks eased in the past few months, I exhaled a bit. Maybe the worst…
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Opinion How Bibi Just Gave Liberal Jews The Finger — And What We Can Do About It
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just gave the finger to a huge chunk of American Jews and, by doing so, dangerously upset the already precarious relationship between the Israeli government and the Diaspora. There is no other way to interpret the Israeli Cabinet’s spineless decision yesterday to accede to the ultra-Orthodox members of the coalition…
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Opinion The Religious Argument For Supporting Contraception
When the Trump administration signaled its recent intention to cancel the federal requirement that many religious employers offer birth control coverage in health insurance plans, it was framed as a victory for religious freedom. As in, “I’m a boss, and my faith teaches that life begins at conception, and therefore preventing conception is akin to…
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Opinion Don’t Blame ‘The Left’ For Scalise Shooting — But It’s A Wake-Up Call For Trump-Haters
I was in Washington D.C. yesterday, at a board meeting of a small non-profit which I chair. One of my colleagues was as present as he could be under the circumstances — he was close to one of the people who was shot a few miles away at the Republican congressional baseball practice in Alexandria,…
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