For a few years now, I’ve been bothered by the “Alt-left” and the hypocritical silence of the liberal community toward it. I fail to understand how people rationalize its extremism, …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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8/23/17
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The scene is Paris in the late 19th century. At a glittering ball, a handful of eligible gentilhommes eagerly circled the charming Comtesse de La Rochefoucauld—something of an Ivanka Trump in …
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By Ben Cohen
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8/23/17
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When Moshe Pinkasovits walks with his kids down the street on Saturdays in his new town, he has to watch out …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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8/23/17
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A chuckle tickled my throat as Ruth Thomann, a Swiss hotelier who posted signs urging her “Jewish guests” to shower before entering the pool, assured me that she has “nothing …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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8/23/17
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By all accounts, Eilon Bdil has no personal interest in marijuana. But as the business manager of Kibbutz Elifaz, he’s a big believer in the herb …
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By Andrew Tobin, JTA
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8/23/17
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Newspapers in Israel ridiculed President Trump after he failed to single out for special condemnation the Nazis, KKK and other white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville. …
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The Jewish Star
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8/23/17
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Is it OK to punch a Nazi in the face?
That’s the question animating much of the discussion of Saturday’s white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which quickly devolved …
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Analysis by Ben Sales, JTA
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8/23/17
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T wo things dominated the news last week: Charlottesville, and the solar eclipse that crossed the United States, with the umbra spanning 16 states. Each of these stories delivered a different …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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8/23/17
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Is it possible to be truly impartial in life? Consider this story from Rabbi Abraham Twerski, told to him as a boy by his father (published in Rabbi Twerski’s “Generation to …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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8/23/17
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The Torah employs the phrase, “Ki tetze l’milchamah al oivecha” (“When you go forth to war against your enemy”) two times in Devarim. The first instance appears in our …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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8/23/17
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