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Community The Rebbe Met Me On The Way To His Grave
The day was hot and, after I had taken two subways and a bus from Manhattan to Cambria Heights (a largely black, middle-class neighborhood), my feet were tired. The connection in Jamaica to the Q84 bus was amazing, and in just about an hour and a half I was walking south, the two long blocks…
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Fast Forward Ocasio-Cortez’s Invitation To Holocaust Museum Stirs Debate
Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will speak at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on Sunday — causing some to criticize the museum for hosting a candidate who has criticized Israel, the New York Jewish Week [reported] (https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/ocasio-cortez-invite-to-shoah-museum-backfires/). Cortez with be featured by the Immigrant Arts Coalition, which is holding a conference on immigration and women’s…
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Community Why I Call Out Israel’s Mistreatment Of Palestinians More Than Syria’s
Yesterday, a right-wing Zionist Twitter personality directed the following question at me and some others: 1000s of Palestinians killed, tortured, jailed in Assad’s Syria. Why the silence of many pro-Palestinian voices? Could it be that #Israel isn’t involved? Do these folks truly care about Palestinian welfare? Or are they just cynically using Palestinians as a…
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Fast Forward ‘Officially A Member Of The Family’: Paul Ryan Is Excited To Be A Jew
House Speaker Paul Ryan is embracing his newfound Jewish roots. Ryan, a practicing Catholic, learned he’s 3% Ashkenazi Jewish during the filming of an upcoming season of PBS’s “Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr,” The Washington Post reported Wednesday. “You could have knocked him over with a feather and then he was very…
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Fast Forward Paul Ryan Is Part-Jewish — But Some Jews Wish He Wasn’t
House Speaker Paul Ryan, a practicing Catholic, recently learned he’s 3% Jewish — to the chagrin of much of the tribe. His family history — which includes the revelation that he’s 3% Ashkenazi Jewish, with eastern European roots — was revealed during the filming of an upcoming season of PBS’s “Finding Your Roots With Henry…
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Letters Israel Was Right To Define Itself As A Jewish State
Dear Editor, I must, with respect, differ from my friend Alan Dowty, who argued against defining Israel as a Jewish State. While I strongly disagree with much of the recently Knesset-passed Nation-State Bill, especially its denigration of the role of the Arabic language in Israel and its claim that a united Jerusalem is the capital…
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Opinion I’m A British Jew. Jeremy Corbyn Is Not A Threat To Us.
Last week, the three Jewish newspapers in Britain made a point of publishing the same front page editorial to highlight the “existential threat to Jewish life” that a Jeremy Corbyn-led government would pose to British Jews. I am a life-long Labour supporter, a 52-year-old British Jew, born and bred in the outer suburbs of London…
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Life What You’re Getting Wrong About Abortion And Judaism
The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court has brought to the fore the question of his attitudes toward abortion and the possibility of overturning Roe v. Wade, a key Supreme Court decision on this issue. Predictably, opposition to Kavanaugh aligns with a “pro-choice” position and with Democratic partisanship, whereas support for Kavanaugh…
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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Fast Forward Rep. Ritchie Torres, outspoken pro-Israel advocate, is dropping hints that he could run for NY governor
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Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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Sports Texas A&M’s Sam Salz cherishes his first taste of DI college football — and the opportunity to inspire fellow Orthodox Jews
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