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Opinion Instead of piling on Joshua Leifer, listen to him
The pro-Israel crowd that delighted in Leifer’s cancellation played to Internet outrage, not the facts
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Fast Forward Brooklyn bookstore parts ways with worker who canceled event over pro-Israel rabbi as moderator
‘It’s an outrage,’ says Rabbi Andy Bachman after event with author Joshua Leifer axed
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Culture Are neo-Nazi terms really the only way to criticize U.S. support for Israel?
A debate over the term 'zog,' or 'Zionist Occupied Government,' is surging online
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News Is Kamala Harris a Zionist?
Unlike Joe Biden, the vice president has never embraced the term. But her statements and actions align with common understandings of the term
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Opinion As Netanyahu speaks to Congress, it’s never been more important — or lonely — to be a liberal Zionist
Liberal Zionists are stuck between a fascist Israeli right and an anti-war movement rife with antisemitism
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Opinion Antisemitism is constantly evolving — social media companies need to as well
Meta, who owns Facebook and Instagram, is the only social media company that is preventing 'Zionist' from being used as hate speech
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Culture In groundbreaking new policy, Facebook says calling someone a ‘Zionist pig’ is antisemitic
Previously, Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, had only prohibited comparisons between Zionists and rats
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News ‘Non-Zionary’: How some queer Jews are wrestling with Israel
“While I'm a raging Zionist,” said Blake Fonberg, who organizes Shabbat dinners for queer Jews, “it's important to create a space for Jews who aren’t Zionists.”
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News Dutch Jews grapple with ‘weaponization’ of their fear following attack on Israelis
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Opinion Almost all voting groups shifted toward Trump, except American Jews. Why?
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News What a Secretary of State Marco Rubio would mean for American Jews and Israel
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Fast Forward ‘Antisemitic hit-and-run squads’: Amsterdam temporarily bans demonstrations after Israeli soccer fans attacked by street mobs
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Yiddish וואָס איז געווען דאָס ערשטע לשון אויף דער גאָרער וועלט?What was the first language on earth?
דער רוימישער אימפּעראַטאָר פֿרעדעריק דער צווייטער האָט געזוכט אַן ענטפֿער צו דער פֿראַגע אויף אַ וויסנשאַפֿטלעכן אופֿן.
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Fast Forward Federal judge temporarily blocks Louisiana’s law requiring classrooms to display Ten Commandments
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Theater They created a musical about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Today’s activists are listening
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Opinion Voters elected Hitler because they liked his fascist promise. Trump’s reelection repeats that history
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