Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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News Offended By ‘Greedy Jewish Landlord’ Remark? ‘Too Bad.’
Thomas Lopez-Pierre says he’s not an anti-Semite. He just believes a cabal of “greedy Jewish landlords” is conspiring, funded by money from Israel, to conduct “ethnic cleansing” of black and Latino residents from Harlem. He believes the Jewish media are covering it up. And if his rhetoric makes Jews upset? “Too bad,” he says. “I…
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Fast Forward This Young Chef Is Trying To Make Ashkenazi Food Cool
CHICAGO (JTA) — The platter, served during Passover, contained a green, a bitter herb, an egg and matzah. But it was no seder plate. Instead, it was the appetizer served during a six-course prix fixe meal at Aviv, a pop-up, kosher-for-Passover restaurant housed for one night at Rodfei Zedek, a Conservative synagogue in the Hyde…
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Fast Forward 4 Things To Know About Jewish New York Times Columnist Bret Stephens
NEW YORK (JTA) — At first glance, The New York Times’ hiring of another white, Jewish male opinion-page columnist is anything but news. But the arrival of Bret Stephens, formerly the foreign affairs columnist for The Wall Street Journal, may be especially resonant for American Jews. Stephens, 42, is the former editor of The Jerusalem…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitism Envoy Post To Be Filled: State Department
(JTA) — The Trump administration will appoint a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, according to State Department spokesman Mark Toner. The envoy post has been vacant since Trump took office in January. On Thursday, JTA reported that the envoy’s office staff could be eliminated soon due to new State Department employment rules. The…
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Fast Forward Trump Won’t Staff Anti-Semitism Envoy’s Office
(JTA) — The office of the U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism will remain inactive due to a State Department personnel decision, according to a former State Department official. President Donald Trump has yet to fill the envoy post. According to the official, the anti-Semitism envoy’s staff will also be eliminated. A directive ending the…
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Opinion 3 Things Politico Got Wrong In Tying Chabad To Trump’s Russia Scandal
(JTA) — Has Chabad “taken on an outsize importance” in the Trump-Russia scandal? That’s a claim of a recent Politico article detailing a web of connections between Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and a vast network of Chabad benefactors and their associates. It’s long been known that a set of Russian oligarchs are also Chabad mega-donors,…
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Fast Forward Why Jews Get Uneasy When Steve Bannon Calls Jared Kushner A ‘Globalist’
(JTA) — What, exactly, makes Jared Kushner a “globalist?” Stephen Bannon, the chief strategist for President Donald Trump, reportedly applied the epithet to Kushner, the president’s increasingly busy senior adviser, who is Jewish. The Daily Beast reported on the name-calling in an article on the latest White House palace intrigue, which has seen Bannon’s stock…
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Fast Forward South Carolina Lawmaker Slammed For Calling J Street ‘Anti-Semitic’
NEW YORK (JTA) — Is J Street anti-Semitic? A South Carolina state legislator insists it is. But few — if any — Jewish leaders seem to agree. Alan Clemmons, a state representative from Myrtle Beach, S.C., is a darling of the pro-Israel community. He led the charge to pass a 2015 state law outlawing contracts…
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