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Community The Nation-State Law’s Authors Are Fanatics — As Are Many Of Its Opponents
There has always been a separation between national pride and national fanaticism. National pride is the natural expression of a clear and determined identity. National fanaticism, on the other hand, is the expression of a lack of security, of safety in one’s identity. The authors of the Nation-State Law and those who have set out…
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Community Poland Must Reckon With How It Treated Jews During WWII, For Good And For Bad
The “Polish Death Camp Law” has stirred many feelings across Poland and Israel, and among Diaspora Jewry. Jail time has been removed for making a claim that “the Polish nation or the Republic of Poland is responsible or co-responsible for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich,” but the law remains on the books. Many…
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Opinion Stop Trying To Bring Liberal Judaism To Israel. We Already Have Too Much Religion
Several years ago, I (Einat) had the honor of speaking at a Conservative Synagogue in NYC. I was asked why, as a proud Israeli feminist, I am not mobilized for the cause of the Women of the Wall. I admitted that while I am a feminist I am also a devout Atheist, and the importance…
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Community Yes, Jews Need To Discuss Abortion — But They Also Need To Discuss Adoption
The recent Forward article, “‘My Dark Secret’: Orthodox Women Reveal Their Abortion Stories,” is heart-wrenching to read, but brings up topics crucial to discuss. Not just in the Orthodox community, but in the entire Jewish community. One story (New York, 26 years old, 8 weeks pregnant) reads of a single woman’s painful journey to abortion…
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Community Jeremy Corbyn Is Gaslighting The Jews
Last Friday, upon the start of Shabbat, Britain’s Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn published an op-ed in The Guardian confronting accusations of anti-Semitism under his watch as leader of the party. What starts off as a welcoming letter of understanding quickly devolves into an exercise in distortion and excuses. Instead of acknowledging the trauma he and…
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Community Global Neo-Nazism Is Increasing. Why Is The State Department Anti-Semitism Envoy Position Still Vacant?
As a former Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism (SEAS) for the State Department, I remain concerned that for the past 18 months, this post has been vacant. The absence of a Special Envoy makes the media’s role of spotlighting outbreaks of hatred and anti-Semitism even more vital. This is why I was deeply…
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Opinion Neither Ashkenazi Nor Sephardi, Italian Jews Are A Mystery
One often hears about two main cultural groups of Jews: Ashkenazim and Sephardim. Some also speak of a third group, Mizrahim, for the Jews who lived in modern Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Georgia and Uzbekistan. But these groupings can be more complicated than they at first seem. There are three main ways of approaching the…
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Opinion I’m A College Student Who Opposes BDS — And Finds Canary Mission Reprehensible
In a recent article in these pages, Josh Nathan-Kazis exposed the growing efforts of right wing actors targeting American pro-Palestinian student activists, particularly those urging their universities to divest from Israeli and Israel-supporting businesses. Students who show support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement may wake up the next day to find their name…
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