Many Israeli leaders are deeply ignorant about and/or indifferent to U.S. Jews. Netanyahu goes further: When he’s not systematically disregarding them, he deliberately tramples on…
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While Trump prays for a miracle, real ones are underway as science scores a stunning triumph and America rededicates itself to democracy Source: https://www.haaretz.com
The number of antisemitic incidents, which skyrocketed under Trump, won’t plummet overnight. But Biden’s response will be starkly different from his predecessor’s equivocation and selective…
You might think Biden’s lengthy pro-Israel record would inoculate, or at least modestly protect him from the overwrought, vituperative ‘Israel-hater’ hyperbole thrown at Obama. You’d…
Orthodox Jews helped win a Supreme Court victory for religious freedom in America. The response? Rank bigotry, insults and wild accusations – from fellow Jews …
We Jews already made a crucial decision about what religious freedom really means some 2,000 years ago. And it isn’t about defying COVID, shirking social…
The slurs against Democratic candidates in Georgia’s election runoffs are the perfect showcase for how Trump and Netanyahu have twisted what ‘pro-Israel’ means, and why…
It would be a serious miscalculation for Israel to call attention right now to one of the most damaging sagas in both the history of…
How a Conservative northerner rabbi’s book inadvertently became the gospel for Virginia’s effort to justify the ban on interracial marriage Source: https://www.haaretz.com
From Trump’s QAnon-fueled fiction, to Douglas Macgregor’s ‘Jews buy support for Israel,’ to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘Zionist supremacist genocide,’ the GOP has a toxic antisemitic…
Can the Israel-UAE, Israel-Bahrain and whatever other normalizations follow be detoxified – and should they? Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Packed with cronyism, slush funds and political corruption: Meet Zionism’s ‘national institutions’ to see why every Zionist with a conscience should be agitating to close…
Out of office, but unrepudiated, Trump will now be unconstrained, letting loose the extremists in his base, his own tribalistic nationalism and his contempt for…
U.S. Jews constitutes some of Trump’s fiercest opponents – and his most fervent supporters. This is how, and why, the split happened, and whether the…
U.S. Jews constitutes some of Trump’s fiercest opponents – and his most fervent supporters. This is how, and why, the split happened, and whether the…
The arc of ex-Never Trump Jews like Bethany Mandel, who feared Trump for stoking antisemitism but now love him for aiding Israel’s territorial maximalists, is…
My daughter’s question haunted me: Our sense of safety has been deeply shaken over the last four years. That’s why, as an African-American Jew, backing…
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Even if the U.S. president loses on November 3rd, Trump Jews are here to stay, and they’re not just in America. We could be witnessing…
Taunting Trump on COVID, autocracy and white supremacy, the unrelenting campaigns of Never Trumpers from the Lincoln Project to Bill Kristol have got under the…