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Fast Forward John Podhoretz Slams Steve Bannon for ‘Foul Extremist’ Worldview
Neo-conservative editor John Podhoretz slammed newly minted White House supremo Steve Bannon for promoting bigotry at Breitbart News. Writing in the journal Commentary, Podhoretz detailed how Bannon turned a conservative news outlet into a purveyor of hate speech. “He is an aider and abetter of foul extremist views, including anti-Semitic ones,” Podhoretz said. “He used…
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Fast Forward Pro-Israel Groups J Street and AIPAC Split on Steve Bannon Appointment
Pro-Israel groups were split on their approach to the incoming Donald Trump administration, with AIPAC resisting pressure to criticize the appointment of far right wing firebrand Stave Bannon to a top White House position. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee declined to weigh in on Bannon, perhaps in hopes of keeping open a pipeline of…
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Fast Forward Deborah Lipstadt ‘Flabbergasted’ by Appointment of Hatemonger Steve Bannon
Historian Deborah Lipstadt has denounced Donald Trump’s appointment of right wing firebrand Steve Bannon to a top White House position, saying she is “flabbergasted” that a purveyor of hate has made it to the president’s inner circle. “I’m flabbergasted. I’m almost at a loss for words,” Lipstadt, a Jewish historian based at Emory University, told…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Paula Vogel
Bringing Sholem Asch to Broadway 90 Years On In May, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel spoke with the Forward about her new play, “Indecent,” which had just opened at Manhattan’s Vineyard Theater. “I’m interested in trying to rediscover the innocence we had as a people before the entire paradigm changed,” she said. With “Indecent,”…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Haim Saban
Hillary’s Funder-in-Chief Seven-figure contributions will buy any political donor an open door and willing heart among presidential candidates, but in the case of Haim Saban and the Clintons, it’s about more than money. The Israeli-American media mogul has been a top donor and close friend to the Clintons for two decades. After contributing tens of…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Michael Dubin
Are His Razor’s Good? They’re $1 Billion Great It started in 2012 with a YouTube video (shot in a day for less than $4,500) that made a bold claim: “Dollar Shave Club’s blades are “f**ing great.” And it ended in July 2016, when Unilever acquired that company for a cool $1 billion. In the whirlwind…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Liz Alpern
Creating the Gefilte Manifesto Gefilte fish is undergoing an unlikely artisanal revival, mainly thanks to Liz Alpern’s Gefilteria culinary venture and her new book, “The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods.” Like Bogie and Bacall or Will and Grace, Alpern, 32, and Jeffrey Yoskowitz, her partner-in-gefilte, are usually mentioned in the same…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Bernie Sanders
Leader of the Bernie Bros Influenced The Election During the first half of 2016, America was Feeling the Bern. Bernie Sanders, 75, rose to become a surprisingly formidable opponent to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries, speaking truth to power in his Brooklyn Jewish accent all across America. Again and again, primaries and polls came…
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