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Culture The Tony-winning drama of the Oslo Accords is now a film
J.T. Rogers and Bartlett Sher always knew their history play had a lot to teach us today. But they never wanted it to be quite this relevant. “When we first did the piece, that was 2016, and as much as it was about Palestine and Israel, it was really about Republicans and Democrats,” said Sher,…
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Opinion Israel’s attacks on Gaza have only made Hamas stronger
At the end of each round of violence between Israel and Gaza, both Israel and Hamas always insist that they have won. This time around, Israeli politicians have ample footage of Gazan towers and neighborhoods they bombed “back to stone age.” Hamas likewise has footage of its rockets reaching Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, forcing Israelis into…
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Fast Forward Doug Emhoff leads White House call with Jewish leaders on antisemitism
Douglas Emhoff, the Jewish husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, addressed Jewish American leaders Wednesday on recent violent antisemitic attacks, telling them that nobody should fear for their safety in America, several participants on the call told the Forward. “I am here on behalf of the administration to express to all of you that we…
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Opinion We’re witnessing a new wave of antisemitic hate crimes. Here’s how we stop it.
In May, there’s been a terrifying surge in antisemitic hate crimes across the country. This is not just anecdotal, nor is it just a few isolated but well-publicized incidents in places like Los Angeles and New York. Rather, we have seen a torrent of incidents across the country in both small towns and major urban…
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Fast Forward Biden taps Tom Nides, an Obama administration official, to be ambassador to Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden will name Tom Nides, a deputy secretary of state in the Obama administration, to be his ambassador to Israel. The Times of Israel first reported the decision. Multiple sources close to the Biden administration confirmed to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that Nides was the pick for ambassador and would…
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Opinion As antisemitism skyrockets, Britain’s Jews feel their neighbors have abandoned them
Statistics can’t fully convey the massive surge in anti-Jewish behavior in Britain over the past two weeks. The Community Security Trust, an organization that monitors and fights antisemitism in the U.K., officially noted a growth of 500% in antisemitic incidents comparing May 8-18 to the similar period before. That is an extremely conservative estimate —…
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News The money trail behind the Jerusalem eviction battle that sparked the latest Israeli-Palestinian violence, exposed
One of the triggers for the recent conflagration in East Jerusalem, which quickly spread across Israel, was an effort to evict Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. Like so many real-estate cases over the so-called Green Line that delineates 1948 Israel from the West Bank territory it has occupied since the 1967 war, ownership…
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Community Cosgrove: I skipped Sunday’s pro-Israel rally and got on a plane to Israel instead
When I received a call from a colleague asking me to attend, address, and mobilize my community for a pro-Israel rally on Sunday, I paused a beat before answering. I love Israel, and, as Woody Allen once said, most of life is just showing up. Israel needs friends, always, and especially now. So why did…
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Opinion Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla was never going to help Palestinians
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Opinion Mike Huckabee’s stunning, terrifying new gift to the Israeli right
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Culture A new exhibit on Red Scare blacklists presents chilling parallels to our current era
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