When news broke two weeks ago that Harvard University’s Kennedy School had refused a fellowship to former Human Rights Watch head Ken Roth, I did not hesitate to applaud their principled …
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By Arsen Ostrovsky
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1/25/23
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A rather remarkable open letter was recently issued by a group of left-wing Jewish organizations, defending a confirmed antisemite. Rep. Ilhan Omar, and deriding House Speaker Kevin …
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By Benjamin Kerstein
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1/25/23
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The Nazis murdered six million Jews in their blitzkrieg toward a “Final Solution.” Last week, students at the University of Michigan advanced their own “Solution”: an …
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1/18/23
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Should I start with the good news? Okay.
If you are a secular Jew who does not wear religious symbols, skullcaps and attire, isn’t walking toward a synagogue or waving an Israeli flag and …
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By Thane Rosenbaum
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1/11/23
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In “It’s a strange time to be a Jew, but when isn’t it?” Herald guest columnist Alan Singer adds his voice to the mainstreaming of Jew-hatred and Israel-bashing in our communities. …
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By Ed Weintrob, Editor-Publisher, The Jewish Star
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1/6/23
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The author, reporter for the Wantagh and Seaford Heralds, is not Jewish.
The following 16 words are engraved on the tombstone of Martin Niemoller, a German Lutheran pastor who was imprisoned at …
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By Michael Malaszczyk, Herald Newspapers
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12/28/22
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From the moment Yasser Arafat launched his long-planned second intifada against Israel in 2000, the most brazen lies about both Jews and Israel were relentlessly told and widely believed. For years, …
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By Phyllis Chesler
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12/14/22
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A high-profile White House roundtable on antisemitism last week was followed on Monday with the establishment of an inter-agency group to coordinate US government efforts “to counter …
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By Mike Wagenheim, JNS
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12/14/22
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As if to confirm its reputation as an institution stewing in radical anti-Zionism, anti-Israelism and antisemitism, members of CUNY4Palestine and other activists did their best to disrupt and shut …
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Richard L. Cravatts
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12/14/22
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Since I started writing about antisemitism about a decade ago, I’ve had trouble answering one question: Why are Jews, who excel in fields from science to literature to music, so bad at …
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Commentary by Karen Lehrman Bloch
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12/7/22
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