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Knowing that the enemies of the Jewish people did not distinguish between Jews—affiliated or assimilated, religious or secular, citizen or immigrant—will give pause to those searching to expose cultural or political distinctions today.
The “Eva’s Stories” account uses social media to reach a new generation, despite worries about taste or the dumbing down of history.
Liberal Jews’ Judaism is often said to consist of whatever is the latest position of the Democratic Party.
We should be outraged by both right-wing violence and left-wing incitement. Choosing between the two is a fool’s game.
Cartoonists, editors or anyone else ridiculing Jews or Judaism don’t have to worry about possible violent repercussions. The same cannot be said of those making fun of Muslims or Islam.
Poway prompts another cry for scapegoats and solutions to a problem with many causes, none of which may be susceptible to fixing. Accepting that is difficult.
There was nothing benevolent about it, with its hooked nose, its sidelocks, its wide-brimmed hat, and the words “Traitor” and “Judas 2019” scrawled in black ink across its misshapen, straw-filled body.
The former veep is a long-standing supporter of Israel, but one who always thinks he knows more about what’s better for the Jewish state than its leaders and its people.
Bernie Sanders’ attempt to embrace the idea of a Jewish state while delegitimizing its democratically elected government won’t end well.
Promises by 2020 candidates to reinstate the nuclear agreement just at the moment that pressure is starting to work requires Jewish Democrats to speak up.
More than 110,000 cases of the measles have been reported worldwide since the beginning of the year. Countries once free of the measles are now in danger of reverting to the days before such a blessing existed.
Unofficial reports, which have been slammed by the White House as misleading, suggest the plan repeats the great miscalculation of traditional Palestinian-Israeli diplomacy: asking too little of Arabs and too much of Israelis.