By MATTHEW STEIN
(JNS) — Many students on college campuses these days hear the lie that Israel has murdered entirely innocent, peaceful, unarmed protesters in the Gaza Strip. They hear that the Israel Defense Forces specifically targets women and children as they displace Palestinians to make room for Jewish settlements....
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By ALAN SMASON
The news out of Washington, D.C. this week was not good for the Jewish community. Apparently, pro-Palestinian voices there within the LGBTQ community decided to ban Jewish Magen David symbols on “rainbow” or pride flags in the DC Dyke March.
Like other alternative “pride” marches, the Dyke...
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By AARON DAVID MILLER
WASHINGTON (JTA) — After 50-plus years of advising on Arab-Israeli negotiations and analyzing Israeli politics, I thought I had seen everything. But Wednesday’s dissolution of the Knesset by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was elected a mere seven weeks ago to lead the parliament, represents a...
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By JONATHAN S. TOBIN
(JNS.org) — The good news for U.S. President Donald Trump coming out of a new poll of Jewish voters is that he shouldn’t take their indifference about his pro-Israel policies too personally.
The survey published this week that was conducted by Greenberg Research for the Jewish Electoral Institute...
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Recent assertions made by Rep. Rashida Tlaib regarding the Holocaust and the establishment of the State of Israel have no foundation in the historical record.
In this imagined version of history, after the Holocaust, the Jews were awarded a consolation prize — the establishment of Israel...
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By EMILY BURACK
Mel Gibson is anti-Semitic. This isn’t just a guess, it’s actual fact based on things Gibson has said. He’s also a misogynist, racist, homophobe and all around (seemingly) terrible person. Yet he’s still working in Hollywood. Why?!
In case you think I’m overreacting, let’s take a walk...
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By DANIELLE AMES SPIVAK
(JNS.org) Last month in The New York Times, author Claire Cain Miller identified how our ever-changing economy is beginning to present new challenges to women in the workplace.
As a mother to three children, a wife to a very busy plastic surgeon, and executive director of the nonprofit American Friends...
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By DORIT SASSON
PITTSBURGH (JTA) — The April 27 shooting at the Chabad of Poway, which left one woman dead and three people injured, was a devastating tragedy for the American Jewish community. As an Israeli expat who has made a home in Pittsburgh, it made me feel more vulnerable...
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By JANICE WEINMAN and ELLEN HERSHKIN
(JTA) — On the Shabbat morning of April 27, Hadassah member Lori Gilbert-Kaye was murdered while celebrating Passover at the Chabad of Poway. The synagogue’s rabbi, a male congregant and an 8-year-old girl were wounded as well by the self-avowed white supremacist shooter.
We know that anti-Semitism...
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By ALAN SMASON
As news reports came out of Poway, California, it occurred to me that I was experiencing a sickening form of deja vu. Yet another lone, white and radicalized gunman bearing an assault rifle had violated the peacefulness and sanctity of Shabbat in order to kill Jews.
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