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Community How Should Israeli-Palestinian Civil Society Respond To Trump’s Jerusalem Move?
Shortly after he helped produce the Balfour Declaration that 100 years ago gave great momentum to the enterprise to establish the Jewish National Home in Palestine, and well before he became Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann cautioned that “the Zionist Congress …. Has to learn the truth that Palestine is not Rhodesia and that 600,000…
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Community There’s No Such Thing As Judeo-Christian Values — Especially Not In The GOP.
“We’ve stopped the government’s attacks on our Judeo-Christian values,” President Trump said at a campaign rally and makeshift Roy Moore endorsement speech in Pensacola on December 8. “We don’t worship government, we worship God,” the President continued. Trump has used the exact same phrasing in previous speeches. “We don’t worship government, we worship God,” he…
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Opinion We Asked 23 Rabbis: What Are Jews, Exactly?
As a part of our Rabbi Roundtable series, we brought together leading rabbis from all corners of the Jewish world to offer their thoughts on the big questions. This week, we asked our rabbis, “What are Jews? — a race, a religion, a culture, an ethnicity, a nation….?” Here are their responses: Avram Mlotek, Orthodox,…
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Community How Much Do Diaspora Jews Matter To Israel?
President Reuven Rivlin’s 2015 “Tribes” speech spoke of the existence of a “new Israeli order” that comprises four main tribes: secular, ultra-Orthodox, Arabs, and religious Zionists. That, supposedly, is the Israeli collective: a federation of tribes with a common future, even if they disagree profoundly regarding the appropriate vision for the State of Israel. Yet…
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Community When Criticism Of Israel Becomes Anti-Semitic
While Twitter can sometimes enable worthwhile conversations between people who would not otherwise cross paths, it can also function as an echo chamber where the same arguments are repeated ad infinitum. So it is with the usual suspects who constantly feel compelled to assert that “criticizing Israel isn’t anti-Semitic. Calling it anti-Semitic is a silencing…
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Fast Forward Merkel: Trump’s Jerusalem Decision Doesn’t Justify Anti-Semitism
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital did not justify the use of anti-Semitic slogans at rallies in Germany. German police reported the burning of Israeli flags and use of anti-Semitic slogans at demonstrations against Trump’s move in Berlin and other cities. Merkel…
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Fast Forward Satmar Rebbe Condemns U.S. Recognition Of Jerusalem As Israel’s Capital
(JTA) — The head of one of the Satmar Hasidic sects slammed the United States’ announcement that it recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum of Kiryas Joel on Saturday night at an event at the New York Expo Center in the Bronx condemned the announcement made on Wednesday at the White House by…
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Community It’s Time To Stop Excusing Palestinian Violence
In the lead up to the day when David Ben-Gurion read aloud Israel’s Declaration of Independence in 1948, there was a fierce battle in the U.S. Administration surrounding whether to recognize the new Jewish State. Secretary of State and five-star U.S. Army General George C. Marshall led a large and influential group of senior officials…
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