Ben Samuels
By Ben Samuels
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News Here are the front-runners to be the new U.S. ambassador to Israel
Tom Nides’ replacement is sure to face a bruising confirmation hearing in the Senate, or a 'sh*tshow,' as one Biden official described it
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Politics GOP megadonor Bernie Marcus gives $1m to AIPAC SuperPAC, likely to fuel friction with Democrats
Last year, progressive groups were furious that AIPAC allowed Republican supporters to influence Democratic elections
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Fast Forward Alex Soros among 160 Jewish leaders urging Biden to ‘send clear message’ to Netanyahu
Also among the signatories on the letter are Hollywood and Broadway actors Mandy Patinkin and Joshua Malina
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Fast Forward Rudy Giuliani: Jewish men have ‘small’ and ‘unused’ genitalia, transcripts reveal
Also in the transcript, Giuliani said ‘Get over the Passover. It was like 3,000 years ago. The Red Sea parted, big deal. It’s not the first time that happened'
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Fast Forward President Herzog addresses Congress: Crisis in Israel attests to fortitude of democracy
The Israeli president also thanked President Biden for his 'landmark national antisemitism strategy'
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News Republicans’ favorite summer blockbuster flirts with antisemitic QAnon blood libel
The film ‘Sound of Freedom’ and its lead actor Jim Caviezel had previously peddled QAnon conspiracy theories and antisemitic tropes related to Jewish billionaire George Soros
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Politics RFK Jr. gains traction amid revelations he compared COVID-19 vaccine mandates to Nazi experiments
In a video clip from 2020, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warns against COVID-19 rules, adding that the 'Nazis did that in the camps in World War Two – they tested vaccines on gypsies and Jews'
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Fast Forward U.S. antisemitism envoy met Israeli minister who called J Street a ‘hostile organization’
The meeting between Deborah Lipstadt and Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli took place amid the latter's remarks about the 'Soros-funded' organization
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News An Israeli restaurant chain said it closed due to boycotts. Protesters are celebrating.
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Opinion It’s time for the pro-Palestinian movement to make a radical change
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Film & TV What the new season of ‘Nobody Wants This’ gets right — and very wrong — about Judaism
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Culture Leonard Bernstein wrote a love song to the White House; now it’s an elegy
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Fast Forward As 1000+ rabbis sign anti-Mamdani letter, others decry mounting ‘red lines’ in Jewish communities
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News Mamdani has created ‘great fear,’ and Jewish voters are ‘more motivated than I have ever seen,’ Cuomo says
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