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Kaffiyeh Feygele

This is somewhat old news but it provides a new way to beat a dead scarf, so why not. A few days ago I spotted a young German man on the Berlin subway wearing a Kaffiyeh Yisraelit. I mentioned this to...

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Tennis Menace

Those not up on their Scandinavian political/ sports news may have missed a current shitstorm in Sweden over a Davis Cup tennis match, played today, in which the Swedish national team meets the...

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Video: Tel Aviv at 100, looking back

Tel Aviv is celebrating its centennial this year. When in Israel I am often struck by a sense that the histories of the land, or rather the various narrative strands emphasized different groups, are...

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Muslims, Jews and Anti-Semitism in Sweden: Part 1, It’s Complicated

I bristle at reports of Muslim anti-Semitism against Jews in my home country of Sweden. (Even though I have to admit it’s a thing.) Growing up in Sweden in the 1980s and ‘90s I inhabited a space...

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Muslims, Jews and Anti-Semitism in Sweden: Pt. 2 Siavosh Derakhti

Siavosh Derakhti was outraged at the anti-Semitic views he heard expressed in his hometown of Malmö. In response he started “Young Muslims against Anti-Semitism” in 2010 – now “Youth Against...

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Jews, Europe, Racism and fear of the wrong thing

Nationalism and racism in Europe is real, growing and dangerous. In some sense, history could repeat itself. But we’re being far too literal about it – and blind to what’s in front of us – if we’re...

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Syrian refugees and Jewish memory

I can’t get the images of Syrian refugees on the beaches of Europe out of my mind. And with those images I can’t help but think of this: In 1940 my grandfather and his immediate family fled Holland in...

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8 Hanukkah candle brands that don’t support the JNF

Like many a Jewish Diaspora kid I grew up with a white and blue JNF pushka in my room. I even received a certificate for ostensibly funding my very own tree. Seemed like a laudable cause. Later I...

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Uncle Tom in the Pale of Settlement

As an American scholar of Jewish culture, I became interested in […] how Jews were and are also, in certain ways, positioned to be American racism’s beneficiaries. How exactly we are – or became –...

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Hasid Takes Stand for Muslims, Makes a few Enemies, Many Friends

Last week Alexander Rapaport, a Borough Park Hasid, made headlines taking a stand with Yemenite bodega owners against the immigration ban on seven Muslim countries. Then, in the last day or two, the...

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