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Samuel Breslow

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United States, Washington, D.C.
As seen in: Forward, Medium, Slate, The American Prospect, NewsBreak, The Student Life, The DC Line
Follow for insights on (mis)information ecosystems as a @Wikipedia editor and journalist. 🚲 Past: @JDForward, @TheProspect, @SPLC, @TSLnews, @PomonaCollege.

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Worried about war talk at your Thanksgiving table? Here's 4 questions to start with

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By Samuel Breslow Verified, Elliot J. Cosgrove
| Forward Verified
For all the joys of Thanksgiving, it is a holiday that can bring the pent-up pressures of family dynamics into full relief. All our intergenerational fissures around a single table for an exclusive one-night engagement. This year, the Israel-Hamas war may make many Thanksgiving dinner conversations more challenging than usual.
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After Oct. 7, cancel culture came for the cancelers, but some free-speech advocates were consistent

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By Samuel Breslow Verified, David Greenberg
| Forward Verified
Following Hamas's slaughter of an estimated 1,200 innocents in Israel on Oct. 7, a stream of manifestos issued forth from students, writers and intellectuals, several of them appearing to justify the bloody rampage. Horrified by these letters, various organizations responded by postponing events, revoking speaking opportunities or rescinding job offers to people they considered apologists for terrorism.
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How Jewish mourning rituals can help us move from Oct. 7 to a peaceful future

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By Samuel Breslow Verified, Elliot J. Cosgrove
| Forward Verified
In nearly 25 years as a rabbi, no one I have counseled through the Jewish stages of mourning has ever shared they have "gotten over" the loss of a loved one. Yet those ritualized phases help us put one foot in front of the other, to remember the people who have died even while we look toward the future with hope. The Jewish way of grieving individual loss can be instructive now as the global Jewish community copes with the staggering losses in the horrific Oct.
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