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Opinion How Donald Trump’s Republican Party Veered to Right of Benjamin Netanyahu on Israel
Several weeks ago, the Republican Jewish Coalition unleashed an online advertising campaign with three dramatic, 30-second ads asserting that radical, anti-Israel extremists had taken over the Democratic Party. One ad focused on Cornel West, the firebrand who called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal, another on the Arab-American activist James Zogby, and the…
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Opinion 3 Women Lead the Forward Into Ambitious Digital Era
Come November, we may find out that the presidential sweepstakes will become known as the Year of the Woman. At the Forward, that’s already happened. For the first time in the nearly 120 years of this legendary Jewish publication, there are women overseeing all publishing and editorial functions. It’s far more than a cosmetic change….
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Opinion The Forward Won’t Publish Anything About Donald Trump for 24 Hours
The attack on journalists, and journalism, that we are witnessing today is of a more significant and far more dangerous order of magnitude than anything I’ve seen over decades in this business. And whereas usually it’s best for a journalist to just grow a thick skin, a supple spine and the ability to ignore the…
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Opinion Forget Diplomacy. Both Netanyahu and Abbas Need Some Serious Therapy
I had a modest revelation about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process as I left the White House after interviewing National Security Advisor Susan Rice. It may be time to send home the diplomats and bring in the therapists. My June 6 interview with Rice, arranged at her office’s request, was not bursting with news, but it…
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Opinion How (Not) To Wield Jewish Privilege in Israel
As Israel reels from yet another rightward lurch in its governing coalition, the question again arises: Can the first Jewish state in thousands of years be democratic and liberal while retaining its distinct religious and ethnic character? Even as staunch a defender of the Zionist enterprise as Moshe Ya’alon is uncertain of the answer. In…
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Opinion If Bernie Sanders Has an Actual Plan for Israel and the Palestinians, He’d Better Say So Now
To this unpredictable, irony-filled presidential election campaign, add this: The first Jewish candidate to win state primaries and amass millions of votes is also the one trying to steer the Democratic Party platform away from its full-throated support of Israel. By appointing outspoken critics of the Israeli government as his representatives on the platform committee,…
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Opinion Adelson’s Money Puts Us All in Bed with Trump
Now that Sheldon Adelson, one of the richest Jews on the planet, has endorsed Donald Trump and pledged to spend lots of his considerable fortune to elect the presumed Republican nominee for president, how should the Jewish community react? What a silly question, you might say. Why should the Jewish community have a response one…
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Opinion Will New Jewish Effort Force New York To Change Sex Abuse Laws at Last?
Sara Kabakov had never done this before. Never driven three hours from her home in Ithaca, N.Y., to the state capitol in Albany nearly 200 miles away, never tried to enter the mosh pit of lobbying lawmakers, never thought of herself as a political activist. But there she was yesterday at the capitol, seeking an…
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