Jewish Culture Elizabeth Warren Just Took New York By Storm - With Jewish Historyforward.com - Sophie Vershbow Last night, thousands of New Yorkers gathered in Washington Square Park to hear Senator Elizabeth Warren campaign for the democratic nomination. The …
Opinion The Women’s March Finally Dumped Linda Sarsour - And Replaced Her With Someone Worseforward.com - Siraj Hashmi On Monday, the Women’s March made a shocking announcement: it had cut ties with three of its four founders––Linda Sarsour, Bob Bland, and Tamika …
Opinion Palestinian Citizens of Israel Like Me Don’t Vote - Because Israel Is Not A Democracyforward.com - Seraj Assi There’s a story that helps me explain to people why Palestinian citizens of Israel like myself don’t vote in Israeli elections. Mahatma Gandhi was …
Opinion This Election, Israelis Are Choosing Between Our Hopes And Our Fearsforward.com - Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll The elections set to take place in Israel on Tuesday are historic, the first time in Israeli history that the Prime Minister failed to make a …
Opinion Who’s Going To Win Israel’s Election?forward.com - Jason Pearlman Tuesday’s election in Israel may seem like a straightforward choice, with right wing nationalist Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu challenged …
HBCUs Can Elizabeth Warren Win The Black Vote?forward.com - Charles D. Ellison As the Democratic primary for the 2020 election heats up and candidates drop like flies, two candidates appear to be heading towards a face-off: …
Felix Kjellberg YouTuber PewDiePie’s ADL Boycott Shows How Anti-Semitism Goes Mainstreamforward.com - Matt Jameson YouTube’s biggest star is also one of its most controversial. Last month, PewDiePie, given name Felix Kjellberg, reached 100 million subscribers on …
Opinion Under Trump’s First Step Act, Thousands Have Been Released From Prison. Much More Is Still Needed.forward.com - Aliana Knoepfler Earlier this summer, 3,100 people were released from federal prison ahead of schedule under a new criminal justice reform bill signed into law late …
Opinion This Is The Least Important Israeli Election Everforward.com - David Hazony When you have seen as many Israeli elections as I have, patterns repeat. Every party spends a few months feeling out their electorate, dramatically …
Benjamin Netanyahu Benjamin Netanyahu Is BDS’s Best Recruiterforward.com - Dean Obeidallah Standing next to an easel bearing a large map of Israel stands Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Pointing to the map, Abbas declares that, if …
Benjamin Netanyahu A Plea To My Israeli Brothers And Sisters, From A Palestinian Who Can’t Voteforward.com - Muhammad Shehada In his latest, brazen campaign promise on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that, if elected, he would annex the Jordanian …
Bernie Sanders What Bernie Sanders Is Saying When He Won’t Talk About Being Jewishforward.com - Batya Ungar-Sargon You might think that as American Jews are suffering the worst anti-Semitic violence in the history of the United States, they would be taking comfort …
Opinion To Counter Israel’s Racism, Every Israeli Jew Should Vote For The Arab Joint Listforward.com - Etan Nechin It happens in every election cycle: After beating the drum of the threat Iran poses to Israel, and after attacking the media, flying to Ukraine and …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoOpinion To Counter Israel’s Racism, Every Israeli Jew Should Vote For The Arab Listforward.com - Etan Nechin It happens in every election cycle: After beating the drum of the threat Iran poses to Israel, and after attacking the media, flying to Ukraine and …
Orthodox Christianity The Idea That Christian Love For Jews Is About Rapture Is A Paranoid Conspiracy Theoryforward.com - Jarvis Best I am seven years old and sitting in a fundamentalist Baptist church. My pastor is ranting about Jews again. “I will bless them that bless thee, and …
Opinion New York And Bill DeBlasio Are Working Hard To Fight Anti-Semitism. I’m The Proof.forward.com - Deborah Lauter In her recent op-ed, Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt was right to express outrage over the escalation of anti-Semitism directed at Orthodox Jews. The …
AIPAC Don’t Believe The Haters. Israeli Democracy Is Still Robust.forward.com - Scott Lesansky The tempest over Israel’s travel ban on two congresswomen and the year-long roller coaster of back-to-back elections has unleashed an avalanche of …
Opinion This Elul, It’s Time To Do Teshuva For American Racismforward.com - George Altshuler When I arrived at the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana earlier this summer, a staff member handed me a card with a photo of a statue of a young girl …
Opinion It’s Time To Admit It: The U.S. And Israel No Longer Have Shared Valuesforward.com - Dany Bahar I’ve always truly agreed with the belief that the friendship between Israel and the United States is based on deep, shared values between their …
Opinion We Muslims Must Fight Anti-Semitism In Our Own Communitiesforward.com - Zaid Jilani Anti-Semitic incidents are on the rise across the country. Last week alone, three Orthodox Jews were attacked in Brooklyn in vicious hate crimes, …
Leif Olson Bloomberg’s False Anti-Semitism Smear Proves The Danger Of Cancel Cultureforward.com - Cathy Young This morning, news emerged that a Trump Labor Department official had lost his job just 18 days into it, after what the reporter called “anti-Semitic …
Opinion Fighting BDS Isn’t Courageous. It’s Authoritarian.forward.com - Yuli Novak In recent attack ads against the nonviolent, Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, politician Stav Shaffir alleged that the …
Methane This Rosh Hashanna, Jews Must Commit To Ending Climate Changeforward.com - J.J. Goldberg You may have heard this one: The story is told of the melamed, the wise schoolteacher, who was walking along the back streets of Chelm one dark night …
Judaism No One Cares About Attacks Against The Orthodox Because You’ve Been Dehumanizing Us For Decadesforward.com - Eli Steinberg You’ve all heard the story: A Haredi Jew violently assaulted in broad daylight somewhere in New York City. It happens so often now, with what is …
Opinion This Labor Day, Jews Must Recommit To Workers’ Rightsforward.com - Ari Fertig The fight for working people — for labor and against income inequality — is picking up steam. Workers’ voices are being heard. Organized labor unions …
Judaism Why Does No One Care About Violence Against Orthodox Jews?forward.com - Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt No one should have been surprised yesterday morning, when a man assaulted Rabbi Avraham Gopin, 63, with a brick in Crown Heights Park — knocking his …
Opinion Israel Is Now Trolling Us Palestinians On Social Mediaforward.com - Muhammad Shehada You may not know that in addition to living under occupation and blockade, Palestinians must endure trolling on social media by the same forces that …
Opinion Yes, Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitic. But It’s Still Protected Speech.forward.com - Pamela Paresky Sending a child off to college this year will be especially fraught for American Jewish parents. In addition to all the usual worries, they have to …
Jewish Culture Liberal Jews: Stop Trying To Prove You’re Loyal. Disloyalty Makes Us Greatforward.com - Joel Swanson Last week, American Jews found themselves defending their loyalty to the U.S. after President Trump said that Jews who vote for Democrats display …
