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Lyn Julius02.09.2018
Corbyn’s worldview turns the truth on its head
Hardly a day goes by without another shocking revelation of British Labour Party leaderJeremy Corbyn’s past associations with racists and terrorist enablers. But little has been said about the intellectual underpinnings of the ideological worldview he has clung to for 40 years.
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Lyn Julius11.07.2018
A double whammy for the Jews of France
France does not want to admit that its terrorism problem has ideological roots. It prefers to blame economic grievances, despair or mental illness.
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Lyn Julius20.06.2018
Why Jewish refugees are the antidote to the ‘Great March of Return’
Linkage between two sets of refugees opens up a window of opportunity for a political accommodation.
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Carol Basri and David Dangoor29.05.2018
Ending national cultural expropriation
Jews and other groups are not just losing their homes and communities, but their communal treasures, personal assets and, by extension, their history.
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Lyn JuliusSephardi Perspective24.04.2018
Well-meaning American Jews are helping import anti-Semitism
Jews have been among the first to “virtue signal” their compassion for refugees from the Syrian civil war.
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Orit ArfaSephardi Perspective16.04.2018
From Berlin to . . . Babylon?
Baghdad is a part of my soul from which I’ve been largely cut off. Just as we can’t be afraid that Jews are returning to Berlin, as a historical correction, let us now change focus to Babylon, where organized Judaism once blossomed.
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Ashley Perry (Perez)26.03.2018
Pesach signifies the joining of the Jewish people
The debate over what to eat or not eat (the “kitniyot” debate) can serve to divide us, but that would be missing the point of the holiday.
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David A. Dangoor15.03.2018
Make the Iraqi Jewish Archive a gateway between Arabs and Jews
For Jews and non-Jews around the world, these materials could serve as a testament to good relations shared in the past and serve as an entry point in exploring how ties can become vibrant once again.
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Reut Rory Cohen06.03.2018
Transparency is desperately needed in the case of missing Israeli children
Time is running out as babies stolen in the country’s nascent years hit their 60s and 70s.
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Ashley Perry (Perez)30.01.2018
Give Sephardi voices a seat at the global Jewish table
It is rare that a week passes without a new initiative in the Jewish world to promote pluralism and diversity. However, what is almost always missing, with very few exceptions, is a voice from outside the Ashkenazi world.
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Lyn Julius29.01.2018
Arabs are torch-bearers for Nazi anti-Semitism
The myth of the Arabs as innocent bystanders, who had no responsibility for the Holocaust—and indeed, paid the price for a European crime when Israel was established—is widely believed.
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Ashley Perry (Perez)23.01.2018
The Sephardi perspective
While deciding on the title for this blog, we were keenly aware of the use of terminology and its sometimes confusing and divisive role. How are non-Ashkenazi Jews to be referred to? We encompass such a variety of backgrounds, cultures, languages and traditions, it is almost impossible to find a word that encapsulates all these disparate groups.
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