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Opinion Have Liberal Jews Betrayed Israel?
Have liberal American Jews betrayed Israel? It’s a searing accusation, aimed like a dagger into the heart of those of us who so often feel caught between our loyalty to a Jewish state of Israel and our liberal, pluralistic, red-white-and-blue DNA. Conservative Jewish thinkers and activists have flung this accusation at their liberal brethren for…
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Opinion 2015: The Year To Say No to Fear
This was the year when fear had a face, And its own sound, an ugly drumbeat. It flowed right through the presidential race, Relegating all else to the back seat. Fear of the other, fear of the unknown, Seeped straight into the public square. Fear of terror, foreign and homegrown, Left a stench of hate…
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Opinion The Left’s Double Standard on ‘Tolerance’
When is open dialogue prized, and when is it synonymous with capitulation? Two disputes that happened within a day of each other highlighted that question along the deepest fault lines in modern Jewish life: the dispute over religious pluralism, and the relationship between Israeli Jews and their Arab neighbors. On December 9, Israel’s Ashkenazi chief…
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Opinion 3 Things You Can Do To Help Close Gender Gap
In 2001, Shifra Bronznick created a national organization with an audacious mission: to advocate for women’s leadership in Jewish not-for-profits, and for policies that were family friendly and gender equitable. It wasn’t easy. But Bronznick was relentless — and visionary. She talked about the need for, and the benefits of, paid family leave long before…
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Opinion Why I Am Pro-Life and Support Planned Parenthood
I am one who believes that women ought to be able to access safe and legal abortions in accordance with the graduated restrictions built into Roe v. Wade, still the law of our land. I also consider myself pro-life. This is not a contradiction, nor a semantic jujitsu. It is a studied opinion supported by…
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Opinion What Donald Trump Can Learn from Hanukkah
It’s that time of year again. The Thanksgiving turkey carcass is stripped clean. The snow boots are retrieved from the back of the closet. And politicians are renewing their annual complaint that Americans don’t say “Merry Christmas” anymore. Actually, Donald Trump first tackled this issue months ago, campaign visionary that he is, promising that we…
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Opinion Should We Call It ‘Radical Islam’?
Timothy McVeigh was an American terrorist who, 20 years ago, detonated a truck bomb in front of the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 and injuring more than 600 — a toll in casualties that far exceeds the carnage experienced in Paris in the past week. McVeigh was raised Catholic and was obsessed with…
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Opinion After Charm Offensive, Time for Benjamin Netanyahu To Act for Israel’s Sake
(UPDATED) President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have made up, and American Jews can breathe a sigh of relief. Such is the conventional wisdom, anyway, the first reaction of those among us who become anxious, angry or alienated every time leaders of the U.S. and Israel are at odds, as if we are…
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