The coronavirus has frozen us all in place: we watch on a screen as our grandchildren are tucked into bed. There’s no certainty we all…
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There’s a disconcerting, and indefensible, ‘no comment’ from every major U.S. Jewish group, politician and public intellectual on Netanyahu’s palace coup. The coronavirus crisis isn’t…
Declaring Sunday prayer time against the coronavirus and attending an online white evangelical service, Trump captured in miniature everything wrong with his administration, and his…
Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Nominating the old Jewish guy comes naturally to us voters in the Arab Disneyland of Dearborn, Michigan – and people like us across America Source:…
Sanders should capitalize on the fervor of his base, including many young Jewish voters, to win the Democratic nomination, and block an authoritarian racist like…
If Sanders or Bloomberg win the nomination, Trump will drench the 2020 campaign in anti-Semitic slurs, accusations of disloyalty and Soros conspiracy theories. Be ready…
By giving Israel a green light to do whatever it wants, the Trump plan threatens its very future as a democracy. That will change how…
Voting in the elections for a useless, anachronistic organization such as the World Zionist Congress isn’t worth your time Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Trump’s one-sided ‘vision’ to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a serenade to Evangelicals and the Adelsons, and ratifies America’s withdrawal from the Middle East. But…
There’s only one reason why Netanyahu should not defect to Trump’s America at this very moment Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Ever since the 1930s, American conservatives have tried to police Jewish identity, by attacking the Jewish credentials of anti-fascist, ‘subversive’ and ‘disloyal’ Jews – all…
Ever since the 1930s, American conservatives have tried to police Jewish identity, by attacking the credentials of anti-fascist, ‘subversive’ and ‘disloyal’ Jews – all the…
Growing up in the shadow of the second intifada, I firmly believed that our fight was with Judaism. Then I was ‘adopted’ by a Jewish…
Authorities and Jewish groups have been negligent in reacting to attacks on the Orthodox community in NYC because of a mistaken, reality-defying belief that anti-Semitism…
We don’t know enough about the origins of the hatred behind the wave of violence, and jumping to conclusions by painting an entire race as…
The muted response to the string of attacks in NYC shows that mainstream U.S. Jewry is indifferent to Haredim and hesitant to condemn those who…
Should Jews rattled by shooting attacks be grateful for Trump’s executive order on anti-Semitism, when days earlier he unleashed a barrage of insults against them?…
The tens of thousands who thronged to welcome the head of the Satmar Hasidic court weren’t really celebrating his ‘triumph’ over the Jewish state at…
The ‘graduates’ of the Charlottesville neo-Nazi march are repositioning themselves to infiltrate American conservatism. And the White House is silent Source: https://www.haaretz.com