By RABBI RUHI SOPHIA MOTZKIN RUBENSTEIN
EUGENE, Oregon (JTA) — A destitute widowed immigrant does what it takes to scrape by so she and her aging mother-in-law can survive. She deals with invisibility; she deals with unwanted attention; she performs manual labor; and she eventually marries up, has a child...
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By SENATOR BEN CARDIN
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, known as the Iran nuclear deal, is bad policy and calls into question America’s international credibility.
Mr. Trump has now set the international community on a slippery slope, imperiling...
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By ANDREW BAKER
(JTA) — In recent years we have witnessed anti-Israel demonstrations that have turned overtly anti-Semitic and even violent, but police ignored initially as only political activity.
We have seen prosecutors and judges rule that an arson attack on a synagogue is not anti-Semitic because the perpetrator was...
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By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
(JTA) — Last week, Shabbat couldn’t come soon enough for the Anti-Defamation League.
On Wednesday, Starbucks announced that the Jewish group’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, seemed to have been demoted from top adviser to a supporting role in the coffee company’s day of diversity training. And on Thursday, the ADL apologized...
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(JTA) — We are Jewish and pro-Israel students who are active within our Jewish communities on college campuses across North America. Many of us have helped organize against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions-affiliated movements throughout our time on campus.
Over the course of our time fighting BDS campaigns, Canary Mission was brought...
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By ALAN SMASON
Ever since I can remember, there has always been the State of Israel. From the time I was a small child in nursery school, through elementary, middle, high school and beyond, there has always been a homeland for the Jewish people.
For my parents’ generation and those...
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By SCOTT BOLTON
NEW YORK (JTA) — Dear Natalie Portman,
I was looking forward to seeing you receive your Genesis Prize in our homeland, and disappointed upon hearing the news that you would not travel to Israel to receive what some call the “Jewish Nobel” because you found recent events there “distressing.”
When...
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By SHERWIN POMERANTZ
Once again, the New York Times has come to the defense of the Palestinian population of Gaza by writing a one-sided editorial (on April 11) and conveniently omitting any facts that might disprove its basic premise that Israel has acted irresponsibly in protecting its southern...
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By OFRA DANIEL SAN FRANCISCO (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — My Dear Land, It is almost your birthday.
At 70, you are not a young country anymore. Some will consider me a stepdaughter because I left you, deciding to move an ocean away. I left behind...
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By JONATHAN S. TOBIN
(JNS.org) — Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman made history after telling The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg that his country recognized the right of the Jews to “their own land.” Though he added that the Saudis also care about the rights of Palestinians and the fate of “the holy...
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