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News Is the crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism the new Red Scare?
Judge Geoffrey Crawford compared Mohsen Mahdawi’s detention to the Palmer Raids and McCarthy era
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Film & TV How Marlene Dietrich saved me — or maybe my twin sister — and helped inspire me to become a lifelong activist
Eleanor Rubin's first brush with fame and activism came unexpectedly during the 1942 Dietrich film 'The Lady Is Willing'
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Culture Targeted by Trump for oblivion, the Voice of America once nurtured the dreams of Jews worldwide
Founded in 1942 to fight Nazi propaganda, the broadcaster won the hearts of listeners in dozens of languages
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Books 75 years after the birth of McCarthyism, scoundrel time returns to America
Clay Risen's 'Red Scare' recalls a societal plague that had been quieted but never fully conquered
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Opinion Don’t compare Trump’s US to Nazi Germany. These 3 American moments are more apt.
There is a straight line from Sen. Joseph McCarthy to President Donald Trump
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Film & TV Susan Sarandon dropped. A ‘Scream’ queen let go. Calling Israel’s actions ‘genocide’ is costing people Hollywood jobs
Comments dubbed antisemitic have prompted shake-ups in Hollywood
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Fast Forward ACLU blasts Anti-Defamation League for accusing pro-Palestine student groups of supporting Hamas
Civil liberties group calls on colleges to reject calls to investigate Students for Justice in Palestine, saying SJP activities are protected by First Amendment
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Film & TV At the core of ‘Oppenheimer,’ a debate about how to be Jewish
Christopher Nolan’s explosive film centers a Jew committed to his faith and one who was indifferent to it
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News ‘He was a mensch’: Slain Messianic Jew remembered as bridge-builder
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Fast Forward Ye debuts ‘Heil Hitler’ music video that includes a sample of a Hitler speech
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Opinion After the DC shooting it’s clear: The pro-Palestine movement must be purged of violent extremism
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Opinion This Jewish mathematician understood why Trump is a terrible poker player
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Yiddish װי האָבן ייִדישע ליטעראַטן באַטראַכט איבערזעצונגען פֿון וועלט־ליטעראַטור אויף ייִדיש?How did Yiddish literary figures perceive the translating of world literature into Yiddish?
די נײַע אױסגאַבע באַטאָנט דעם בײַטראָג פֿון סאָװעטישע ייִדישע שרײַבער אין דער אַנטװיקלונג פֿון דער מאָדערנער ייִדישער קולטור.
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News Will Jewish voters decide the NYC mayoral election?
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Fast Forward Israel announces biggest West Bank settlement expansion in decades
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Fast Forward Northern Ireland’s lone, beleaguered synagogue aims to stave off decline by engaging Christian neighbors
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