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News In a race for his political life, NJ Gov Phil Murphy appeals to both progressive and Orthodox Jews
Progressive and Orthodox Jews often gravitate to rival candidates. But running for reelection, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has managed to win support from both groups. He is going to need it. The election has surprisingly tightened in recent weeks. Democrat Murphy’s 26-point lead against his Republican challenger, Jack Ciattarelli, has dwindled to six points…
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Fast Forward Pompeo wants Congress to deny Biden funding to reopen U.S. consulate for Palestinians
Mike Pompeo, former President Donald Trump’s secretary of state, called on Congress to stop the Biden administration’s plan to reopen the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem to serve Palestinians. “There ought to be members from both sides of the political aisle who will see this as folly and as a dangerous mistake, Pompeo, who is a…
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Opinion How to lie with statistics, antisemitism edition
If 174,000 American Jews had been physically attacked in the past year, you’d think we’d all have heard about it. That’s roughly five times the number of Jews who were assaulted, had their businesses vandalized or were sent to concentration camps during Kristallnacht, the worst pogrom of the 20th century. Yet that’s the tsunami of…
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Culture How a notorious Nazi almost got a Hollywood biopic — and why Kubrick refused to direct
Albert Speer, the Nazi architect who built a Cathedral of Light for Hitler and commanded millions of prisoners in the forced production of weaponry, had a comfortable second life. After serving 20 years in prison, Speer became a best-selling author, penning the memoir “Inside The Third Reich.” Naturally, in 1971, he and his publisher were…
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News This rebel in the Knesset is warning American Jews to change their progressive ways
A prominent Knesset member in Israel’s ruling party says American Jews underestimate how the progressives among them threaten the Jewish state, and that they need to distance themselves from what he sees as a growing anti-Israel movement. “The greatest challenge that we are facing is the progressive ideology. This has now become the trend,” Amichai…
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Fast Forward Decision on new head of Jewish Agency postponed
The Jewish Agency’s executive committee was scheduled to vote Monday for a new person to lead the largest Jewish global nonprofit, and decided instead to extend the term of its acting executive chairperson. The postponement, of two months, follows the withdrawal of leading candidate Elazar Stern over comments he made about shredding anonymous complaints, including…
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News Environmental group boycotts voting rights rally over inclusion of Zionist groups
Update: The national Sunrise Movement distanced itself from its D.C. chapter on Thursday, but stopped short of condemning the boycott. The D.C. chapter of the environmentalist Sunrise Movement is declining to participate in a voting rights rally in Washington because three pro-Israel Jewish groups are included: the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, the National Council…
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Opinion Sally Rooney’s translation debacle is a political stunt that misses the plot
There is no honor in boycotting a language and a people. And yet that is what Sally Rooney has effectively done, despite her statement to the contrary, by blocking Hebrew translation of her new novel, “Beautiful World, Where Are You” by Modan Publishing House. Hebrew belongs to no one nation state. It is an ancient…
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