World
After Donald Trump’s Win, the European Dominoes May Fall — and It Won’t Be Pretty
Donald Trump’s unexpected, blood-curdling victory on Tuesday confirmed the fear that a movement of populist nativism is sweeping much of the western world. A wave that began in the so-called Visegrád states of Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, and Slovakia — Hungary’s Viktor Orbán was a Trumpian figure before there even was a Donald Trump — and in the United Kingdom with the Brexit vote has washed up on the shores of the United States.
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Two Thirds of the Planet’s Wild Animals Will Be Gone by 2020. As a Jew, You Better Care.
Two thirds of the world’s vertebrate species will be dead by 2020 if we continue on our current path. It’s our Jewish duty to stop that from happening, writes Matthew Gindin.
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Trump’s Policy On Syrian Refugees Reflects America At Its Most Pathological
Trump speaks of refugees who ‘pour into our country’ and are ‘ISIS aligned.’ That does sound ominous, but it’s not an accurate description of the challenges, Batya Septimus argues.
Is It Just Me or Was That Anti-Semitic? A British Jew’s Constant Question
There’s a slippery kind of Jew-hatred that’s harder to pinpoint than the classic kind. Alona Ferber senses it often in London.
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Instagram’s Glitzy ‘Dear Ivanka’ Pleads: Save Us From Your Dad
A mysterious Instagram account couples glamorous photos of Ivanka Trump with foreboding messages about the president-elect.
Why ‘Success’ of Deadly Jerusalem Terror Attack Could Inspire Flood of Copy Cat Killers
The Palestinian wave of lone-wolf terrorism that began a year ago has continued intermittently into the current Jewish holiday season. When a terrorist can get his hands on a gun, as happened Sunday near Jerusalem’s Ammunition Hill, that will always be the preferred option, not a stabbing or a car-ramming that usually cause fewer casualties. And because the gunman who killed a woman and policeman Sunday was from East Jerusalem, he had no problem reaching the site by car.
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The Nobel Peace Prize Winner Who Infuriated Hitler
Eighty years ago, a courageous German journalist defied Hitler when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The controversial story of Carl von Ossietzky has lessons for us today.
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Look How Far Ukraine Has Come Since the Babi Yar Massacre
On the 75th anniversary of the Babi Yar Massacre, we should honor the dead but also acknowledge the resilience of the New Ukraine, Alex Soros writes.
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Why Anti-Semitism in the British Left Should Worry American Jews, Too
If you ignore the Labour Party because you aren’t a leftist or British, you may be too late to preserve the special status American Jews enjoy today.
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Finding My Own Truth As Poland Rewrites Holocaust History
Do Jews and Poles want to perpetuate narratives that deny the differences within Polish society during World War II — or do we want to heal?
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From Muslims to Ebola, Conservatives Always Want To Terrify Us About Something
Conservatives want us scared, Jay Michaelson writes. But what if there’s nothing to fear so much as fear itself?
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