Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Life The Black Lesbian Vegan Who Wants To Change Everything You Ever Thought About Rabbis
(JTA) — Sandra Lawson didn’t expect to perform a public benediction at her local pub in Philadelphia’s Roxborough neighborhood. But when her friend Jay, who was entering firefighter training, asked her for a blessing earlier this year, she stood with him in the middle of the room and put her rabbinical school training into action….
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Fast Forward Conservative Rabbi Ousted From Florida Synagogue After Protesting Donald Trump
(JTA) — A Florida rabbi must leave his pulpit after his protest of Donald Trump’s speech at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference riled congregants. David Paskin, who serves as rabbi of the Conservative Temple Beth David synagogue in the south Florida city of Palm Beach Gardens, will leave his position in July. In…
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Fast Forward Jewish Republicans Badly Split on Donald Trump Amid New Anti-Muslim Outburst
(JTA) — Jewish Republicans are criticizing Donald Trump for his renewed call to ban Muslim immigration, although few of his Jewish supporters seem to be reconsidering their endorsement of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. But at least one, celebrity Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, rescinded his apparent backing of Trump following the billionaire real estate magnate’s remarks….
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Fast Forward Andrew Cuomo Anti-BDS Order Seen as Gamechanger — for Better and Worse
(JTA) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive order opposing BDS shouldn’t have made a splash — but it did. A handful of states had already passed similar measures opposing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. So had the New York State Senate — though the State Assembly version has been stalled since…
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Fast Forward Tony Blair Says Arab States Will Normalize Relations With Israel as Part of Peace Deal
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunni Muslim countries are ready to normalize ties with Israel should Israel negotiate a peace deal with the Palestinian Authority on the basis of the Arab Peace Initiative. The Arab Peace Initiative, first proposed in 2002 and reaffirmed in recent years, calls for full…
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Fast Forward Temple Mount Firebrand Yehuda Glick Finds Himself in Knesset After Israel Shakeup
(JTA)— A year and a half ago he was a fringe Temple Mount activist expected to die, the victim of a point-blank assassination attempt. This week he will enter the Knesset, the ruling Likud party’s replacement legislator for outgoing Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon. Yehuda Glick’s journey — from the United States to Israel, from government…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Insists No Plans for Israel Trip
(JTA) — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said a trip abroad would not be prudent “at the moment” because it would not sway voters. Trump’s comments, made Sunday to the Wall Street Journal, come amid reports that the Republican Jewish Coalition is planning an Israel trip for the real estate mogul. Earlier this month,…
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Fast Forward Amsterdam Will Pay Back Jewish Community $11M for ‘Holocaust Tax’
(JTA) — The city of Amsterdam will give its Jewish community $11 million as compensation for taxes imposed on Holocaust survivors who returned home to the city following World War II. Upon their return, according to an in The Telegraph Monday, the survivors were made to pay a tax because their homes were left empty during the Holocaust. They…
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