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Why a Jewish leader connects the left-wing campus protests to right-wing attacks on democracy

(JTA) — Once upon a time (and it feels a bit like a fairy tale), Jewish communities tried to speak with one voice on domestic policy issues. If...

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The Jewish Week

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Israel’s Independence Day is a time for mourning and celebration

This story was originally published on our sister site My Jewish Learning. (JTA) — As an undergraduate student, I used to delight in small...

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The Jewish Week

Dr. Mijal Bitton

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The Jewish Week

Georgia Ross

Jews from Arab lands are the missing piece of the Israeli-Palestinian discourse

(JTA) — I grew up in a small Syrian Jewish enclave in Brooklyn in the 1960s. It was a wonderful community with many old-world traditions. I missed...

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Lisa Sayegh

’50 Completely True Things,’ a Palestinian-American’s call for compromise, strikes a chord on social media 

(JTA) — Last fall, Mo Husseini wrote a series of propositions — what he called “50 Completely True Things” — about the Israel-Hamas war, and...

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The Jewish Week

Andrew Silow-Carroll

At a Manhattan synagogue, ‘normie’ pro-Israel liberals stage a last stand

(JTA) — Although once deployed by the alt-right as a disparaging term for the unenlightened, “normie” has come to suggest a sort of...

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The Jewish Week

Andrew Silow-Carroll

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