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Opinion BDS Debates On Campus Actually Benefit Jews
The Israeli government has declared the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement as one of the biggest threats facing Israel today. Many in the American Jewish community have worried about the anti-Semitism and delegitimization of Israel the BDS debates on college campuses invoke. For the last years, I, along with a group of researchers, have…
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Fast Forward What Christian Broadcasting Network Thinks About The Six Day War
The Christian Broadcasting Network is releasing a new documentary about Israel to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Israeli capture of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War. It’s the third documentary about Israel that CBN has produced. Why is this major Christian-oriented station so interested in Israel and the Jewish people? “I like to remind…
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Opinion How To Break Israel’s Bond With Young American Jews In One Easy Lesson
On Rosh Hodesh Iyar, the 8th grade students of the Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan school confronted a difficult reality shared by many Jews trying to connect with Israel. At a kibbutz the group stayed at in the Galilee, they were told that we would not be able to use the Sefer Torah (a handwritten…
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Fast Forward The ZOA Blasts Trump Twice In One Day — Is Pro-Israel Honeymoon Over?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Zionist Organization of America launched two broadsides against the Trump administration, signaling growing unease on the pro-Israel right with the president’s Israel policies. The ZOA, among Trump’s most ardent defenders in recent months and the flagship for the conservative pro-Israel community, slammed President Donald Trump for retreating from a campaign pledge…
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Fast Forward Pro-Israel Groups ‘Disappointed’ After Trump Delays Jerusalem Embassy Move
Pro-Israel groups expressed their dismay after news emergedon Wednesday that President Trump will not use his upcoming trip to Israel to announce that he is moving the U.S. embassy in that country to Jerusalem. Trump had promised during the presidential campaign that he would move the embassy, a fact noted by the executive director of…
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Life June Hadassah Event To Take On Feminism, Zionism
As part of Hadassah’s “Defining Zionism in the 21st Century” series, there’s going to be a June 8 event called “Feminism & Zionism: Exploring Recent Tensions,” at the Town & Village Synagogue in New York. Participants include Emily Shire and Sharon Weiss-Greenberg, so the event promises to be thought-provoking and generally wonderful. I can’t imagine…
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Community The Extremists Among Us
This past March at the second annual “Ambassadors Against BDS” conference at the UN, South Carolina State Representative Alan Clemmons called me anti-Semitic. I was there with ten other J Street U students to discuss progressive, pro-Israel and anti-occupation alternatives to BDS. Hundreds of people in attendance stood up and applauded Clemmons’ accusation, and then…
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Opinion The Bible Is Packed With Tough Guy Jews
This article was originally published in the Forward on August 8, 1997. In his eagerness to embrace what he terms Judaism’s “sissy heritage” (“Deconstructing the Jewish Man,” June 27), Daniel Boyarin seems to deliberately ignore another, equally valid side of the Jewish heritage that happens not to fit his ideology. The Zionist “tough guy” machismo…
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Opinion It’s time for the pro-Palestinian movement to make a radical change
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News Should synagogues remove the Israeli flag from bimahs now? How a New York shul made the decision
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Film & TV What the new season of ‘Nobody Wants This’ gets right — and very wrong — about Judaism
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Fast Forward The World War II origins of the White House East Wing, now demolished
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