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The Schmooze Here’s Israel’s Extremely Dramatic 2019 Eurovision Entry Song, ‘Home’
If you are a fan of Josh Groban’s music could be just a little more emotional, you may love this year’s Eurovision entry from the state of Israel, a song called “Home,” by Ohad Shargai and Inbar Weitzman. The ballad, which makes use of “Let It Go”-style piano, shivering cymbals, and breathy harmonies, is performed…
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Opinion The Democrats Are Making Me More Pro-Israel
This week, Bernie Sanders’ national deputy press secretary accused American Jews of dual loyalty. “This is a serious question: do you not think that the American government and American Jewish community has a dual allegiance to the state of Israel? I’m asking not to rule out the history of this issue, but in the context…
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The Schmooze Meet Rotem Sela, The Israeli Actress Who Provoked Netanyahu By Calling Arabs ‘Human Beings’
A world leader getting into an Instagram tussle over human rights with a bombshell actress? It would all be too far fetched, if the leader was not the cartoonishly corrupt Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his assailant was not Rotem Sela, an Israeli model, veteran, lawyer, activist mother of three. Don’t forget to tell…
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Opinion Who Gets To Define Anti-Semitism?
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a meeting on a local college campus for Students for Justice in Palestine. As it came out that I was both a Zionist but also sympathetic to the Palestinian plight, I received dozens of questions from students asking how I could hold these two “incompatible” ideas. I spent…
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News Is The Latest Ilhan Omar Episode About Anti-Semitism, Or Israel?
On Thursday afternoon the Democratic Party prepared to vote on a resolution that was proposed in a very different spirit. The statement condemns anti-Semitism — and Islamophobia, and bigotry of all kinds. Draft language of the resolution published by CBS Thursday morning condemns “anti-Semitism as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to the values…
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Opinion 2020 Democratic Hopefuls Didn’t Abandon Israel. They Abandoned Jews
The American left has entered a period of overcorrection on Israel. If for a while there was the impression that criticizing Israel would get you branded an anti-Semite, we have now officially entered the territory where saying anti-Semitic things will be sanctioned by the left as long as they relate, however circuitously, to Israel. Nothing…
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Opinion Inspiring Women | Representing Women And Workers In Her Village
Jisr az-Zarqa is a coastal Israeli Arab village known more for its crime and poverty than the archaeological treasures it houses. Riddled with socio-economic problems, it’s a place most people avoid. Now, one woman born and raised there is working to change this image, making it proud even as she breaks with its tradition. Ever…
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Opinion The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Of ‘The Left Hates Israel’ Slogan
The idea that the Left hates Israel is a commonplace one in the oped pages of major publications as well as at Shabbat tables and in synagogue pews nationwide. It’s certainly easy to think of many examples to defend this claim: the leadership of the Women’s March, Ilhan Omar’srecent tweets, and even the fact that…
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