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Books Forverts Editorial: What’s Our Agenda?
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. As editor of the Forverts, most of the questions I get from readers involve either the price of an obituary or a request to decipher a handwritten postcard written by a deceased relative. Recently, though, I got an email with a very different sort of question: “I’d…
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Opinion The Silver Lining In Brooklyn’s Ultra-Orthodox Mudfest
On Election Night, I turned on the TV and waited patiently. There was only one competition I was particularly personally invested in: the New York City Council race for the 44th District. The race was waged between an attorney named Kalman Yeger and a social worker named Yoni Hikind. Each had a strong ally backing…
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News Did AIPAC Secretly Write Your Rabbi’s Sermon?
AIPAC may have secretly written your rabbi’s sermon. Each week, the pro-Israel lobby the American Israel Public Affairs Committee sends out two prewritten sermons to rabbis across the United States, pushing AIPAC’s legislative agenda and its policy goals. And each week, AIPAC reminds rabbis that they shouldn’t tell congregants where they got the pre-written texts….
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News Can A Jew Snatch Bob Corker’s Seat In Deep-Red Tennessee?
Has James Mackler taken leave of his senses? Resigning from a comfortable partnership in one of Nashville’s top law firms? And to run for the U.S. Senate in a Mid-South Bible Belt state as a Jew, married to a rabbi—and, maybe tougher—as a progressive Democrat? Sitting in an unassuming local coffee shop, the fit, dark-haired…
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Yiddish World The Jewish Designers of North Korea’s Hydrogen Bomb
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The whole world was recently unnerved to learn that North Korea successfully tested a hydrogen bomb on September 3rd, 2017. According to an analysis of the seismic activity measured from the blast, North Korea’s nuclear scientists seem to be familiar with the Teller-Ulam design for thermonuclear weapons….
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Fast Forward President Franken? Senator Al Says The Joke’s On You
Though Al Franken’s friends say he could be talked into a 2020 run for the Presidency, the Minnesota Senator’s office is clamping down on any rumors of Franken’s presidential aspirations. “Sen. Franken is not going to run for president in 2020,” a spokesman for Franken told The Hill. Politicians who have worked with Franken believe…
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Fast Forward Jewish GOP Lawmaker Walks Back Support For Trump On Charlottesville — A Bit
Congressman Lee Zeldin is the latest in a growing contingent of Jewish Republican political figures walking back their support for Trump. On CNN Friday morning Zeldin issued a more full-throated disagreement with the equivalence Trump drew on Tuesday between white supremacists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. Zeldin’s first statement on the matter backed Trump’s take….
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Fast Forward This Flow Chart Shows Why Israel Is Bad At Condemning Nazis
A blogger for the Hebrew language edition of Haaretz tweeted out a “Starter chart to the [Israeli] right” in the aftermath of the events in Charlottesville this past weekend. The chart cheekily suggests that Israel’s right is friends with Nazis who support Israeli, and hate non-Nazis who hate Israel. The flow chart was posted in…
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