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Opinion The Crossword Clue That Raised an Age-Old ‘Shylock’ Anti-Semitic Trope
For me, it started with a thrown penny. It clattered to the parking lot asphalt of the swim club I frequented as a child, and in my innocence I bent to pick it up, looking around to see who had lost it. Two teenage girls stared at me, giggling, and refused to take back the…
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Breaking News Shylock-for-‘Jew’ Crossword Clue Spurs Apology Over Money-Grubber Trope
A major newspaper company has apologized for using Shylock as a clue for the answer “Jew” in a nationally syndicated crossword puzzle after the Anti-Defamation League said it was insensitive. Tribune Media Syndicate, which provides content to 4,000 outlets and reaches 10 million readers, said in its apology that appeared in newspapers on Sunday that…
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Opinion Foxman: Foes of ‘2 States’ Hurt Israel’s Credibility
As Washington and Jerusalem jockey over terms for renewing Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Anti-Defamation League director Abe Foxman insists that his organization will continue to support Israel. But he warns that Israelis make the job harder and hurt their own cause by allowing hardline opponents of Palestinian statehood to speak for them. He singled out Israel’s…
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Breaking News Anti-Defamation League Takes On Hatred Online as Anti-Semitism Goes Viral
How do you confront hatred when it has no fixed address? Abraham Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League national director, attempts to pin down an answer to the question in his latest book, “Viral Hate.” Co-authored with privacy lawyer Christopher Wolf, the book chronicles the complications of countering hate on the Internet. The takeaway? It’s up to…
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The Schmooze John Galliano Spills to Vanity Fair
Guess what? John Galliano feels bad. In an exclusive interview with Vanity Fair, Galliano publicly apologized for the anti-Semitic remarks that got him fired from Dior in 2011. “It’s the worst thing I have said in my life, but I didn’t mean it …” the disgraced fashion designer told contributing editor Ingrid Sischy. ” I…
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News ADL Hits 100; Are Jews a Race?; Is Gwyneth Paltrow the Most Beautiful Woman?
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Paul Berger is joined by Forward Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman to discuss the past, present and future of the Anti-Defamation League on its 100th anniversary. Then, science writer Rite Rubin calls in to discuss a rogue scientists study that suggests that Jews aren’t a race. Finally, Forward staffers…
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News Anti-Defamation League Adapts to Challenges as It Turns 100
As it enters its second century, the organization identified more than any other with fighting anti-Semitism finds levels of anti-Jewish bigotry in America lower than ever. By the admission of the Anti-Defamation League’s own national director, doors once closed to Jews are now almost uniformly open, up to and including the nation’s elite corporate suites,…
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Opinion Fashion Forgiveness
Should John Galliano ever be allowed in polite company again? And who gets to decide? It’s not easy being a daredevil fashion wunderkind with admitted drug and alcohol addictions and a penchant for outrageous statements and even more outrageous dress. Galliano, the former head of the legendary Christian Dior fashion house, was ousted in 2011…
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