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Opinion Trump’s Angry Pittsburgh Response Killed GOP Chance Of Midterms Victory
In the aftermath of the terrible synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh, President Trump has been forced to figure out how to respond sensitively while also campaigning for the looming midterm elections. In a world in which 71% of Jews vote for Democrats, many of whom have decided to leverage this tragedy into a political call to…
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Life Finding Solace In Shabbat, After Pittsburgh
On Saturday night, what feels like a lifetime yet was only six days ago — after a rainy and windy day of mostly board games and books, my family gathered, as we do each week, to strike a match, light our colorful braided candle, and make Havdalah to mark the end of Shabbat. As we…
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News Pittsburgh Shows True Grit As Iconic Judaica Store Toughs It Out After Tragedy
PITTSBURGH — Signs of life began to appear on the fifth day of mourning in Pittsburgh, even amid the onslaught of funerals, shiva calls and community gatherings. Parent-teacher conferences were held at the Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh girls’ building. The Community Day School celebrated a bar mitzvah at its morning prayers. And Pinsker’s Judaica Center…
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Opinion The Pittsburgh Killer And Kroger’s Gunman Didn’t Just Kill. They Stole Our Memory.
As the names and ages of those lost in last week’s horrific massacre during Shabbat morning services at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue were released, one heartbreaking fact stood out: The victims were 11 worshippers, all between the ages of 54 and 97. The US Black community also lost two elders last week in a…
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Community Anti-Semitism Isn’t Just A Right-Wing Problem
Anti-Semitism isn’t new — and it isn’t dead. There are still two million fewer Jews alive today than there were in 1939. Jews represent less than 2% of the U.S. population and less than 0.2% of the world’s population. Yet, despite our small numbers, Jews are victims of more reported hate crimes than any other…
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News Women Victims Of Pittsburgh Bloodbath Get Erased By Hasidic Newspaper
A Hasidic newspaper left faces of the female victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre out of a front page spread on the tragedy. On the cover of its November 2 edition, the weekly Yiddish-language tabloid Di Tzeitung ran photos of the eight men slaughtered last Saturday at Tree of Life congregation in Pittsburgh. Underneath, in…
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Opinion It’s Time To Call B.S. On Hate Speech As Free Speech
‘I’m a strong supporter of people’s First Amendment rights to speak, whether it is speech I agree with or disagree with,” said Pennsylvania attorney general Josh Shapiro in the aftermath of the antisemitic massacre in Pittsburgh. He continued, “What is not tolerable in this country and what is not constitutional in this country is when…
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Opinion The Ugly Reason Naftali Bennett Is Minimizing Anti-Semitism
Among the many inversions of the Trump presidency, perhaps none is weirder than the spectacle of Naftali Bennett, the ultranationalist Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister, downplaying anti-Semitism. Up until now, Bennett seemed to see anti-Semitism rising everywhere around him: in Poland, to which he cancelled a trip in February; in the BDS movement, which he called…
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