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Opinion Explainer: Is Israel A Democracy?
Should we be concerned about the state of Israeli democracy? Recent worrying events have included the passage of a Nation-State, as well as prime ministerial efforts to corral the press and ongoing campaigns to limit judicial independence. But are these signs that democracy and civil liberties in the Jewish proposed? What Is a Democracy? To…
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Opinion So-Called ‘Jews Of No Religion’ Are The Impetus For A Jewish Revolution
It wasn’t just the growth of intermarriage, you know. Or the dramatically shrinking Conservative movement. Or the fact that non-Orthodox Jews were having fewer and fewer children. The real dismaying headline of the Pew Research Center’s Portrait of Jewish Americans,, which this October will have been released five years ago, was the finding that young…
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Community Britain’s Labour Party Should Serve As A Warning For U.S. Democrats
In light of anti-Semitism scandals plaguing the Labour Party in Britain, and increasing incidents of far-left anti-Semitism on North American college campuses, contemporary anti-Semitism and its overlap with anti-Zionism have been subjects of significant discussion and disagreement. Anti-Zionism is not inherently anti-Semitic — but it very often is, and the separation of the two is…
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Opinion Julia Salazar Is A Cautionary Tale: Question Israel And Your Jewishness Will Be Questioned
For most of my life, I vacillated between feeling either way too Jewish or not Jewish enough. In my Catholic suburb of Boston, I downplayed my Jewish identity. But in Jewish institutions like Brandeis and Hillel, I felt like an outsider. One moment in particular sticks out from all the rest. In 2007, I was…
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Fast Forward Michael Cohen’s 4 Most Jewish Moments
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Jew makes news, but does that make it Jewish news? Take the case of Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty Tuesday to fraud and campaign finance improprieties, directly implicating his former boss, President Donald Trump. Cohen, whose father survived the Holocaust, began his education at a yeshiva day school but transferred to…
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Fast Forward Adelsons Give $25 Million To Keep Senate In GOP Control
Republican megadonors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson gave $25 million last month to the Senate Leadership Fund, the super PAC aiming to keep the Senate in Republican control, Politico reported. Their $25 million contribution made up almost the entire haul of $26 million that the Senate Leadership Fund brought in last month and more than half…
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Fast Forward Activist Scholar Who Did ‘Intersectionality’ Decades Early Dies At 72
An activist who believed Israel isn’t the one and true homeland of all Jews, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, died of Parkinson’s disease at 72, The NewYork Times reported. “She was living and breathing the dynamic movements of her time,” said her long time partner Leslie Cagan. The civil rights movement started Kaye/Kantrowitzbegan’ social activism. Mobilizing in the…
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Fast Forward ‘Superhero’ Lawyer Who Argued Before Supreme Court Killed In Domestic Dispute
A prominent Chicago-area lawyer was killed in his home in a domestic dispute, the Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday. A suspect was escorted by police out of his Winnetka, Illinois, apartment and is being questioned. Stephen Shapiro was known as a “superhero” among his fellow attorneys. “We are shocked and saddened to learn of the death…
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News Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
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Opinion Why is Netanyahu poised to OK a ceasefire that’s favorable to Hamas? One word: Trump
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