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August 26, 1920: Women’s Suffrage

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American women at last won the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted on this date in 1920. Among the Jewish women involved in the suffrage movement were Gertrude Weil,...
U.S. President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up during the “Rebuilding of America’s Infrastructure: Faster, Better, Stronger” event on July 15, 2020, at the UPS Hapeville Airport Hub in Atlanta. Credit: Joyce N. Boghosian/The White House.

On Tisha B’Av, it’s time for Americans to step back from apocalyptic rhetoric

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Americans are experiencing a summer of discontent in a way that exceeds any in living memory. The nation is divided not just along political lines but seems increasingly immersed in something much dangerous—a culture...
World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Lauder declares $25 million effort to fight anti-Semitism in American politics

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Amid the rise of anti-Semitism in the United States, former U.S. Ambassador to Austria and philanthropist Ronald S. Lauder announced on Monday the launch of the Anti-Semitism Accountability Project (ASAP), investing $25 million in...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, at the annual J Street Conference in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 28, 2019. Credit: Michael Brochstein/Split Stone Media.

Bernie Sanders: ‘It’s not anti-Semitic to criticize Israel’

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, said that “it is not anti-Semitic to criticize the policies of the Israeli government,” adding on to his prior stance that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
President Donald Trump delivers an address to a joint session of Congress Feb. 28, 2017. Credit: Shealah Craighead/White House.

While a consensus rules in Israel, US politics becomes more divisive

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It used to be that Israel and the United States represented two very different political paradigms. The two major American political parties may have had their disagreements, but the difference in their worldviews was slight...