Seven years have passed since that terrible morning in Pittsburgh when a gunman entered the Tree of Life synagogue and murdered eleven Jews at prayer, the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history. For those of us in the Jewish…
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The Blogs: For Japan’s New PM, Helping Trump on Industrial Policy, Burden Sharing Is Vital | Ted Gover
The stakes are high for the first official meeting between Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi – – the country’s first female to hold the office – – and President Trump today in Tokyo.
Key to the meeting will be for Prime…
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The Blogs: What If Trump’s “Peace Plan” Is Just Another One of His Bankrupt Casinos? | Paul Mendlowitz
Donald Trump has gone bankrupt more times than most nations survive wars. His “empire” — a string of hollowed-out towers, shuttered casinos, and unpaid contractors — is a monument to illusion. Now he wants to roll those same instincts…
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Why Jewish teens aren’t speaking out about the NYC mayoral election, despite their strong feelings
This article was produced as part of the New York Jewish Week’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around New York City to report on issues that affect their lives.
As a teen reporter I…
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The Blogs: A Budget-Happy Jewish National Peace Plan | Chaim Meyer Scheff
Israel today presents a most curious value schism. Respecting our Ancient Values, there are sustained efforts to uncover sites & items of archaeological significance; from prior Jewish ‘CommonWealths’ [1st:(Northern/Southern Kingdoms)…
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The Blogs: Loco Milei: Tehran’s Zionist Nightmare | Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez
Javier Milei did not just flip Argentina’s foreign policy—he blew it up.
By aligning Buenos Aires with Jerusalem, the Jewish convert and self-declared “Zionist President” has turned Argentina into Iran’s new nightmare and Israel’s…
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The Blogs: The Abolitionist Imagination – Part III — The Theology of the Oppressor | Ed Gaskin
“God is my judge. I will not bow down to the oppressor.” — Henry Highland Garnet
Introduction: From Chains to Theology
In the earlier essays of this seven-part series, we traced how Christianity was bent to serve empire and how enslaved…
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The Blogs: Opposing the Penalty of Death in all Forms: From the Tree of Life to the Gaza Genocide | Michael Zoosman
“With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory, I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don’t think it’s human to become an agent of the angel…
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The Blogs: You Can’t Be Antisemitic If You’re Semitic | Adil Faouzi
The term “Semitic” originally comes from the Biblical figure Shem (one of Noah’s sons) and was later used by linguists to describe one of the major branches of the Afro-Asiatic language family – a linguistic and cultural, not racial,…
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The Blogs: A Memorial in a Shared Space? | Harriet Gimpel
On Saturday, we visited Reim. The park memorial site of the Nova party. Crowded parking area. Constant turnover. Reactions. Emotions Only indifference can’t be found there.
I wandered among posters on wooden posts with names of young people…
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