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Fast Forward Israel Marks Holocaust Remembrance Day With Sirens and Tears
Survivors of the Holocaust “have guided the entire nation,” Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said during Israel’s national Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony. “Today, 70 years after the liberation of the death camps, we stand before you, and we swear an oath and promise, ‘All of us, each and every one of us, have a number tattooed…
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Opinion Dear Stanford: Don’t Quiz Me on BDS Because I’m Jewish
Stanford’s Molly Horwitz, running for student senate, says she faced anti-Semitic questioning I am both a woman of color and a Jew. For much of my life, I struggled to embrace these identities. In high school people told me I was “not a real Latina” while also claiming it was my Hispanic ethnicity that got…
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Music Stanford Student Slams ‘Anti-Semitic’ Question About Jewish Faith
(j weekly via JTA) — A junior at Stanford University who is running for the student senate says she faced anti-Semitic questioning from a student group whose endorsement she was seeking. During a March 13 interview in front of eight members of the university’s Students of Color Coalition, Molly Horwitz, 21, alleges that the lead interviewer…
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Fast Forward British College That Scrapped Anti-Israel Conference Backed by Judge
, via Wikimedia Commons” src=”https://images.forwardcdn.com/image/675x/center/images/cropped/southamptonuni-1429184713.jpg”]A London judge has accepted the University of Southampton’s decision to cancel a conference on Israel’s right to exist over security concerns due to protests. The university cancelled the conference on International Law and the State of Israel late last month. It was scheduled to be held April 17-19. Organizers of…
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The Schmooze Kim Kardashian Blurred Out by Ultra-Orthodox
Where’s Kim? An ultra-Orthodox web site photoshopped out the image of the reality star eating dinner with her famous hubby Kanye West and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat Just about every part of Kim Kardashian has probably been exposed to the world by now, between her infamous sex tape, reality television, and most recently, the photographs…
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Opinion The Problem With Jewish-Only Holocaust Trips
March of the Living participants visit Auschwitz in 2009 / Yossi Selliger (JTA) — The evening before we visited Auschwitz, over pizza with a group of young people in Oswiecim, the town on whose outskirts lies that infamous symbol, one of my students approached me with tears in her eyes. Tears are hardly uncommon to…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto Pleads Guilty To Bribing Israeli Police
Celebrity Israeli Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto pleaded guilty in a Tel Aviv court to charges of bribery as part of a plea deal. Pinto, 39, pleaded guilty to charges of bribery, attempted bribery, and obstruction of justice for attempting to bribe a senior police officer for information in another investigation about him. As part of the…
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Opinion Are American Jews Too Loyal — to the Democrats?
These are challenging political times for American Jews. Rarely have loyalties and core values been so unsettled. It’s not just that America and Israel are at odds. Loyalty to the Jewish homeland seems in conflict right now with loyalty to the liberal values of most American Jews, and to the Democratic Party that champions them….
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News Christians are displaying menorahs in their windows post-Bondi Beach attack. Why some Jews object
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