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Dec 19, 2020, 11:16 AM

I volunteered to take minutes – 2020 had other plans

ILLUSTRATIVE: Sign outside a synagogue announcing cancelation of all activities due to the coronavirus outbreak. Babylon, New York, 1 April 1, 2020 (iStock)

As we made agonizing, life and death decisions for our community, the synagogue Covid committee I chair discovered we were on our own

Mar 15, 2020, 11:55 PM

In Trump’s COVID-19 response, a troubling echo of the past

An orphaned child lies in a cot on the AIDS ward at Victor Babes Hospital in Bucharest, Romania, Feb. 7, 1990. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Once upon a time there was an unhinged, megalomaniacal, authoritarian leader who turned an epidemic into a humanitarian crisis

Oct 15, 2019, 12:49 PM

Anti-Semitism, Bard, and me

Forward opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon speaking at Bard College.

This is not a story about me. At least, not directly. I wasn’t there, and I didn’t see it. I just read about it. But in a world where anyone can get sucked into anything via social media, this...

Jun 20, 2018, 7:01 PM

Are we heading toward an American version of Romanian orphanages?

The cruel, inhumane, “zero-tolerance” Trump immigration policy, under which children are taken from their parents at the border, has already been much compared to Nazi Germany. I don’t object. It ought to go without saying that there’s absolutely no...

Aug 18, 2017, 7:04 PM

My father’s stories in the time of Charlottesville

Ever since I can remember, my father told us the Stories. The same ones, repeated endlessly, about his childhood in Nazi Germany. Of course, he rarely told whole stories, because my brother and I already knew them. Usually, it...

Nov 21, 2016, 7:35 PM

Jewish Trump apologists are dead wrong, and here’s why

So the Zionist Organization of America asked Trump's close advisor, Steve Bannon, to dinner Sunday. (Apparently he was a no-show, but not for lack of an invitation.) I have one question for the ZOA: What the hell were you...

Jul 22, 2016, 4:36 PM

Rabbi Lookstein, what were you thinking?

The New York leader focuses on the tightrope he walks between right and left, failing to see it’s no longer his circus

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Tamar Wyschogrod is a journalist, copy editor of New Jersey Monthly magazine, Hebrew tutor, and highly experienced domestic engineer.

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