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Actually, many Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews support Mamdani
Recent reporting suggested our communities hold less nuanced political opinions than we do
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Opinion In Bruce Springsteen’s new anti-ICE protest song, a nod to Minnesota’s own Bob Dylan
Calling out Donald Trump, Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller by name, Springsteen conjures up his own 'Desolation Row'
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Opinion Should we be comparing ICE agents to Hitler’s ‘Brownshirts?’
In the deaths of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, unsettling parallels to 1933 Germany
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Opinion What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank hiding from ICE
Is it reasonable to invoke the memory of the horrors Frank suffered outside of a strictly Jewish context?
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Opinion Minnesota, Rabbi Tarfon and the language of horror
How an ancient Jewish sage counsels us to be part of the 'coalition of the horrified'
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Opinion On Holocaust Remembrance Day, warning signs of our contemporary society crumbling
Citizens shot dead in the streets. Eugenics on the rise. We can't forget where these patterns might lead
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Opinion The Nazis massacred innocents when their regime was crumbling. What does that say about Minneapolis?
Across history, the same pattern unfolds: governments attack civilians when they are at their weakest
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Opinion The last hostage returned. Can Israel finally exhale?
The return of Ran Gvili closes one chapter of the war. A more complicated one remains painfully unresolved
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Opinion What an antisemitic conspiracy theory and the Alex Pretti killing have in common
In Minnesota and Argentina, ideology overpowers evidence
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Opinion As with Cain and Abel, the blood of our brother Alex Pretti is crying out from the ground
The lies our government is telling us have a biblical precedent
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Opinion I’m a rabbi arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. The Book of Exodus shows us how this ends
Torah teaches us that the fight for human rights is long and painful — but that light prevails
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