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Should we still recite the Prayer for the State of Israel if we disagree with its government?
A government and its policies should have little to do with the religious significance of Israel and our support for it
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Despite rising antisemitism, now is the time for a film on the crimes of Harvey Weinstein
'She Said' does necessary work of affirming survivors of gender-based violence and discrimination
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FDR was never going to meet with the rabbis marching on Washington
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FDR had an option to save more Jews
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Torah values would mean supporting LGBTQ students at YU
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In Holocaust exhibit, unanswered questions are the point
President and CEO of Museum of Jewish Heritage responds to author's praise and critique
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Columnist ignores Palestinian complicity in recent Gaza fighting
A third of Gazans who were killed died from errant Islamic Jihad rockets, not Israeli airstrikes
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Letter | ADL: Critic distorted our record and ignored examples that undermine her argument
OpEd writer ‘entitled to her views’ but ‘loses credibility by creating her own facts,’ group says
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Letter | Critique of Haggadah is offensive and irrational
To the editor: The Forward recently published a review by Jay Michaelson of “The Rational Passover Haggadah” by Dennis Prager. As the editor of this Haggadah, which Dr. Michaelson proclaims contains “idiotic, arrogant pronouncements… on almost every page,” I feel duty bound to respond, both to protect Dennis Prager and myself, as the editor, from…
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