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By Benjamin Gladstone
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Fast Forward Jewish LGBT People Celebrate At WorldPride, Including With Jewish Pride Flag
A large delegation from the organization Jewish Queer Youth joined with millions of people marching in WorldPride in New York on Sunday, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, considered the beginning of the modern gay rights movement. Several young Jews, some wearing kippot, marched, danced, and waved Pride flags as representatives of the…
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Community You Promised To Change This Yom Kippur? Take It To The Streets.
Usually, after Yom Kippur, I write a list of character flaws I vow to address in the new year, place it in my wallet, and then promptly forget about it. I always want that final shofar blast to truly awaken me, to shake me into action, to help me become a better person, but I…
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Community 10 Ways Jewish Students Can Join The Resistance
Watching the events of these past weeks unfold, we were confronted with a feeling of desperation. Nazis rioted in Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, and anti-Black slogans, threatening a synagogue. The president of the United States sided with racism and violence, drawing praise from the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists. The New England…
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Community The Crucial Congressional Resolutions On Yemen You Haven’t Heard About
One of the year’s most crucial resolutions is about to go to a vote in the United States Congress, and the American Jewish community is missing it. For all of the conversations and debates in our community about Middle East issues, we rarely hear a word about Yemen. The most impoverished Arab-majority country, Yemen is…
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Community The No State Solution
More times than I can count, Brown University students, Jewish and non-Jewish, have decried Israel in what they call “a critique of nationalism” or the state system. On the one hand, I agree with their theoretical point: nationalism and the state system are extremely problematic and have resulted in enormous grief, bloodshed, and displacement across…
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Community In Defense of the ‘Jewish Establishment’
Some young Jews have barely experienced anti-Semitism in their lives, and for that they have the “Jewish establishment” to thank. Others of us, however, have not been so fortunate, and still depend on Jewish institutions to provide us with the communities and tools that we need to deal with everyone from the “alt-right” to our…
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Community Diaspora Jews Have No Right to Impose Our Policy Preferences on Israel
Earlier this month, The Forward published an article by Daniel Yadin entitled “Why Diaspora Jews Must Call Out Israeli Injustice.” Yadin’s narrative is increasingly popular among frustrated Jews living in the United States, and to be honest I see the appeal. On most issues, Yadin and I are probably in agreement— I disagree strongly with…
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Community Dear Jared Kushner: What Type of Jew Do You Want To Be?
Dear Mr. Kushner: What kind of Jew do you want to be? Let’s think together about Jewish history, and how many Jews have responded to people in power, and then I’ll leave the decision to you. Have you heard the term “middleman Jew?” European rulers, in order to deflect the ire of the masses to…
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