Drew Gerber
By Drew Gerber
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News Rabbi David Wolpe Says It’s ‘Shame’ Haskel Lookstein Backed Out of Republican Convention
Influential Los Angeles rabbi David Wolpe called Rabbi Haskel Lookstein’s decision against giving the invocation at the Republican National Convention “a shame” in a Time Magazine opinion piece. Wolpe, who gave the invocation at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, said that a prayer is a blessing that does not — and should not — constitute…
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Breaking News New York Federation Raises $207M — Defies Grim Trend
The UJA-Federation of New York announced Tuesday that it raised more than $207 million through its annual fundraising campaign and planned giving, bucking the decline in charitable giving to Jewish federations reported last month. According to the annual study released in June by Giving USA, donations to Jewish federations declined in 2015 while donations by…
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News GOP Convention LiveBlog, Day 2
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Today’s convention theme, according to the Republican National Convention, is Make America Work Again. According to the convention website, “The Obama years have delivered anemic economic growth, the lowest labor-force participation rate in 38 years, and job-killing regulations and legislation like Obamacare. These policies are crushing middle-class families, and a…
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Breaking News Debbie Wasserman Schultz Slams Donald Trump From Inside GOP Convention
Democratic National Committee chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz strongly denounced Donald Trump Monday in a live interview mere feet from the GOP convention stage as “the most divisive, bigoted, unprepared, unqualified major-party candidate that has ever run.” Wasserman Schultz, who is in charge of her party’s convention next week, added that while it will showcase…
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News The ‘Kippah Guy’ Comes to Cleveland, Bearing Donald Trump (and Hillary) Yarmulkes
Marc Daniels, better known as “The Kippah Guy,” isn’t at the Republican National Convention this week in Cleveland for politics. On the street near the Quicken Loans Arena, he sells yarmulkes in both Democrat blue and Republican red emblazoned with the names of the party candidates in Hebrew and English. Instead, what matters to Daniels…
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News The Jewish Twittersphere Saw That Trump-Pence Logo — and Said ‘Oy Vey’
Donald Trump’s campaign rolled out a new logo to promote his announcement that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will be running for vice president on the GOP ticket. Now, the Trump campaign is maybe wishing it had given it a second look. While Trump’s pick drew little attention given that news media had been reporting Pence’s…
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News The Indiana Synagogues That Mike Pence Forgot
Temple Beth-El, an attractive red-brick Reform synagogue, has stood for 94 years at the corner of Jackson and Council streets in a leafy section of the city of Muncie, Indiana. It’s never been a large congregation and mostly doesn’t hold services in the summer when some members are out of town and nearby Ball State…
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News Green Party’s Jill Stein Slams Bernie Sanders for Endorsing Hillary Clinton
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein criticized Sen. Bernie Sanders’ endorsement of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton Tuesday in a series of brutal tweets. “If you don’t want to vote for a war monger or racist billionaire, there are more options,” Stein tweeted right before Sanders announced his endorsement of Clinton in New Hampshire. “The…
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