J. J. Goldberg
The Jewish Daily Forward
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Tragic Mistake
Ginsburg’s death, as heartbreaking as it is, need not have constituted a crisis for American liberalism and democratic norms. → Read More
This Rosh Hashanna, Jews Must Commit To Ending Climate Change
Take action to stop climate change before it’s too late. → Read More
Americans Love Jews But Are Clueless About Judaism, Survey Finds
Jews knew the most about other religions out of any surveyed group, whereas the majority of non-Jews knew little about Judaism → Read More
A White Supremacist Murderer Devastated Chicago 20 Years Ago. Why Didn’t Anything Change?
The white supremacist Benjamin Nathaniel Smith shot and killed Ricky Byrdsong and Won-Joon Yoon, and injured nine, including six Orthodox Jews. → Read More
Pittsburgh Synagogue Murder Spree Latest In 4 Decades Of Organized Anti-Semitic Attacks
The Saturday morning massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue is not America's first deadly anti-Semitic attack, but it is unique in a certain sense. → Read More
Uri Avnery, Israeli Warrior For Peace, Dies At 94
Avnery, a right-wing firebrand turned muckracking journalist turned peace activist, was one of the first Israelis to meet with Yasser Arafat. → Read More
Hypocrisy, Blindness, Jewish Telegrams: Untangling One Day In Israeli-Palestinian Relations
One recent Thursday, events on three continents laid bare the colliding paranoias that keep the Middle East boiling. J.J. Goldberg takes it all apart. → Read More
Steve Bannon Used Israel As An Anti-Semitic Tool Against Jared Kushner
Jared Kushner believed anti-Semitism was the main driver behind Steve Bannon’s White House turf war against Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump. → Read More
Why Are So Many Brooklyn Orthodox Jews Dying In House Fires?
The deadly Hanukkah fire was the third linked to Jewish ritual in the same neighborhood since 2010, fifth in Brooklyn since 2000. → Read More
Why Is Israel’s Top Diplomat Attacking American Jews?
Israeli deputy foreign minister bitterly attacks American Jews. → Read More
How Did Trump’s Bumbling And Netanyahu’s Cunning Land Them In The Same Place?
America and Israel share a moral mission as nations founded for a higher purpose. They now share a darker sense as democracies teetering on the brink. → Read More
Russia’s Election Meddling Is Not Even its Most Dangerous Recent Achievement
In terms of Russian attacks, undermining our democracy and helping install a clown as our president is further down the list than you might think. → Read More
Calling Steve Bannon an anti-Semite isn’t just false. It’s dangerous.
Steven Bannon is not an anti-Semite. Though many claim Bannon is an anti-Semite, this is false, and dangerous. → Read More
Is Hamas Inching Toward Peace — Or Going Rogue?
Hamas revises its infamous charter, invites Fatah back to Gaza. It could be a turning point, but we've seen this movie before... → Read More
7 Tips For Talking To People You Disagree With In The Age Of Trump
In times of peril and uncertainty, there’s no greater threat to a democratic society than the breakdown in civil dialogue. → Read More
How NFL Players’ #TakeAKnee Protest Ultimately Helps Trump
Those athletes you’ve watched kneeling in protest during the national anthem have lit a political fire not seen in professional sports in years. → Read More
What The Shofar Tries To Tell Us About Hurricane Disaster
When the shofar announces the new year, the congregation recites: This is the day the world is born — or, in modern Hebrew, destroyed. → Read More
A Major Jewish Philanthropist Just Published A Plan To Ethnically Cleanse Palestinians
This plan, which calls for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, gets its institutional backing from the heartland of diaspora Jewry. → Read More
Who Did and Didn’t Sign Congress’s Jewish Rebuke of Trump? Why on Elvis’s Yahrzeit?
The map of Jewish members of Congress is a map of Jewish America. But two are from tiny Memphis Jewry. Is that connected to the mystery of Elvis? → Read More
When Silence on Evil Is Evil: A GOP Leader Speaks
The most piercing comment yet on the Trump-Charlottesville crisis came from top GOP strategist Steve Schmidt in an MSNBC panel discussion. Here it is. → Read More