The constant gatekeeping of Jewish identity experienced by Jews of color, converts and many others makes coming together in a crisis far harder Source: https://www.haaretz.com
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The Charlottesville chant ‘Jews will not replace us’ is directly linked to the conspiracy theory that has now led to the slaughter of Jews, Blacks…
It wasn’t until I watched the bombs raining down on my home city of Kyiv that I began to identify, proudly, as a Ukrainian. The…
When the ADL, tasked with protecting the Jewish community, blindly equates the escalating violence of the white Christian Right with pro-Palestinian human rights activism, it…
For the great majority of Jewish Americans, any embrace of Trump is impossible, the potential overturning of Roe is abhorrent, the MAGA culture wars are…
Major media figures on the U.S. Right aren’t merely backing Putin, the white Christian savior, but attacking Zelenskyy as a ‘globalist,’ a threat to Ukraine…
Will Putin’s clear lies on Ukraine be a wake-up call to those U.S. Jews who’ve swallowed lies and conspiracy theories at home – even when…
Why is AIPAC, which condemned Trump’s incitement of violence on Jan 6th and the assault on America’s democratic values, endorsing ‘pro-Israel’ candidates who align with…
When we decided to stand behind Jessie Sander, a teacher who was fired by a New York synagogue for her anti-Zionist views, Eric Yoffie asked:…
When a Scarsdale, N.Y. synagogue fired an educator who accused Israel of genocide and U.S. Jews of enabling violent racism at home, Beinart and others…
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Whoopi Goldberg tied herself in knots trying to explain that Nazi Germany’s industrial extermination of Jews wasn’t ‘about race.’ But her suspension is unfair: Defining…
For the American Right, teaching that Jews died in the Holocaust, Nazis are bad and racism is unjust is so controversially ‘woke’ they must be…
Fox News marked Holocaust Remembrance Day with a Tucker Carlson ‘Special’ glorifying Hungary’s white Christian nationalism and accusing Holocaust survivor George Soros of waging a…
There was confusion, even ridicule, when two non-Jewish members of Congress recently launched a caucus for the “Advancement of Torah Values.” The lobby’s real agenda…
It may sound counter-intuitive to ask why we need to count Jews, after a third of our number were exterminated in the Holocaust. But there…
American Jews like me grew up in with an incomprehensible loss of language and living Jewish culture. But those ‘flown letters,’ targeted for erasure by…
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80 percent of Serbia’s Jews were murdered by the Nazis. But in Belgrade, the Holocaust is still largely ignored. Not a single sign, memorial or…
The Texas hostage-taker tried to free Aafia Siddiqui from U.S. prison. Why she inspires such dangerous fans is a story about Islamism, Pakistan’s duplicity, open…