Alyssa Fisher
By Alyssa Fisher
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Fast Forward ‘Officially A Member Of The Family’: Paul Ryan Is Excited To Be A Jew
House Speaker Paul Ryan is embracing his newfound Jewish roots. Ryan, a practicing Catholic, learned he’s 3% Ashkenazi Jewish during the filming of an upcoming season of PBS’s “Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr,” The Washington Post reported Wednesday. “You could have knocked him over with a feather and then he was very…
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Fast Forward Paul Ryan Is Part-Jewish — But Some Jews Wish He Wasn’t
House Speaker Paul Ryan, a practicing Catholic, recently learned he’s 3% Jewish — to the chagrin of much of the tribe. His family history — which includes the revelation that he’s 3% Ashkenazi Jewish, with eastern European roots — was revealed during the filming of an upcoming season of PBS’s “Finding Your Roots With Henry…
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Fast Forward White Supremacist Group Unfurls Anti-Immigration Banner In Manhattan
A neo-Nazi group held a rally in a Manhattan park Saturday, where members unveiled a large banner that read, “Stop the invasion, end immigration,” Gothamist reported Tuesday. Photos from Fort Tyron park in Inwood show the group, Identity Evropa, standing over the banner on the arched Billings Arcade, as well as waving American flags and…
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Fast Forward Al Franken Might Run Again
Former Sen. Al Franken said he misses his old job and hasn’t decided whether he plans to run for office again, WCCO reported Monday. He returned to Minnesota for the dedication of a new school, marking his first public appearance in the state since resigning from the U.S. Senate in January, following allegations from more…
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Fast Forward Fate Of CBS In Limbo Following Moonves Sexual Misconduct Allegations
With CBS CEO Les Moonves’ career up in the air following numerous allegations of sexual misconduct, corporation vice-chairman Shari Redstone’s plan to recombine CBS and Viacom has a likely chance of coming to fruition, according to Vanity Fair. If that becomes the case, investors may have something to fear, as CBS’s stocks have already begun…
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Fast Forward I’m So Much More Than A Neo-Nazi, GOP Candidate Says
Republican congressional candidate Arthur Jones says he has much more to offer his district than just neo-Nazi rhetoric. “There’s more to me than being a denier of the Holocaust,” he said in a recent interview with the Chicago Tribune. “I’m an American patriot.” Jones, a former leader of the American Nazi Party, ran unopposed in…
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Fast Forward Facebook Removes Video Of Birthright Walkoff
Facebook removed a live-streamed video posted by a Birthright participant who recently walked off her trip with eight others to visit a Palestinian family facing eviction from their eastern Jerusalem home. The social network took down the video over the weekend, according to IfNotNow, an American-Jewish progressive activist group that connected the participants with activists…
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Fast Forward 200 Leading Rabbis Sign Letter Describing Gay People As ‘Perverts’
More than 200 leading rabbis published a letter condemning the idea of surrogacy and adoption for gays, describing homosexuals as “perverts,” The Jerusalem Post reported. In the letter, released Thursday, the rabbis wrote that “the aggressive terror which accompanies the media’s brainwashing” designed to “destroy the concept of family and turn perverts into heroes will…
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