In the aftermath of Taylor Swift’s 'Eras Tour' concert series, some fans have been reporting amnesia, unable to recall the performance they just left.

As it turns out, there’s a precedent for the phenomenon — and it dates back to the ancient Israelites. 🧵 In the Talmud, rabbis discuss how after Moses’ death, Joshua forgot a large portion of the Jewish laws Moses had explained to him, and the halacha was lost to the Jewish people.

As the White House prepares to release the first national strategy to counter antisemitism, one topic is taking center stage: Israel. 🧵 The country’s most powerful Jewish organizations are pushing hard for federal officials to classify harsh criticism of Israel as a form of antisemitism.

The @ADL and @AJCGlobal, among others, are insisting that the White House adopt @TheIHRA's controversial definition.

President Joe Biden’s administration made discreet attempts to bring more Middle Eastern countries into the Abraham Accords, Israeli journalist Barak Ravid writes in a book newly translated into English.

Here's the morning's news... 🧵 The accords, spearheaded by the Trump administration, normalized relations between Israel and several Gulf states, and Biden made public commitments to continue his predecessor’s work.

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The 2022 killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was just the most high-profile example of a pattern that has seen 20 journalists killed by Israeli Defence Forces over the past 22 years, according to a new report.

Here's the morning's news... 🧵 The document, issued by the Committee to Protect Journalists on Tuesday, outlined the circumstances in which 18 Palestinian journalists and two European correspondents were killed, along with the lack of consequences for any members of the IDF.

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Katherine Goldstein was shot and killed at a July Fourth parade. Her daughter, Cassie Goldstein, was with her when she died.

"I won’t let her murder make me a weaker person," Cassie said, speaking with our @noraeberman.

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forward.com/opinion/509604… @EladNehorai watched with dismay this week as news outlets described his hometown as an “affluent, mostly white suburb” — distancing the story of the Highland Park shooting from its Jewish and Latino communities.

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The social media account @libsoftiktok usually goes after public schools and influencers.

Now they’re going after Jewish summer camp network Camp Ramah for its policies towards LGBTQ youth.

forward.com/fast-forward/5… In April, Washington Post tech reporter Taylor Lorenz uncovered the woman behind the account: Chaya Raichik, a Brooklyn-based Orthodox Jewish woman. And now, for what seems to be the first time, Raichik is directing outrage at a Jewish group.

Good morning, yesterday our @robinbirk spent time in Highland Park eating lunch with several Jewish residents in their 60s.

They spoke about what could have led the shooter to do such a thing, and what might happen next.

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forward.com/news/509344/a-… Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel would have been the first to demand that “thoughts and prayers” offered in lofty speeches be replaced by a bodily commitment to justice, writes @rabbicreditor, the founder of an anti-gun violence group for clergy.

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NEW: Germany, long seen as an international model for appropriately reckoning with its Holocaust history, nonetheless currently has at least 162 streets and schools named for Nazis and their collaborators, a Forward investigation has found.
forward.com/news/481224/th… For International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021, we published our initial investigation on Nazi monuments, which included 320 such monuments in 16 countries on three continents. forward.com/news/462648/ho…