Juliana Kaplan
By Juliana Kaplan
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Fast Forward It’s Jew vs. Jew In Long Island Congressional Race
Businessman Perry Gershon beat a crowded field to secure the Democratic nomination for New York’s 1st Congressional District and face off against Jewish Republican incumbent Lee Zeldin in November, Patch reports. Zeldin, one of two Jewish Republicans in the House, ran unopposed in the GOP primary. Gershon fended off four competitors to nab the Democratic…
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Fast Forward Activists Post ‘Wanted’ Posters In Protest Outside Stephen Miller’s Apartment
About 20 immigration activists convened outside of Stephen Miller’s luxurious Washington, D.C. apartment complex on Monday, USA Today reported. Protesters reportedly chanted, “Say it loud, say it clear: immigrants are welcome here,” and handed out missing children flyers and “wanted” posters in front of the swanky CityCenter DC, which is partly owned by the government…
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Fast Forward GOP Strategist Rehashes ‘Trump Reads Hitler’ Charge On MSNBC
Republican strategist Steve Schmidt revived allegations that President Trump used to obsessively read Adolf Hitler’s speeches in an appearance Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Schmidt said that Trump’s “only affinity for reading anything were the Adolf Hitler speeches he kept on his nightstand.” It appears that Schmidt was referencing an allegation dating back to President…
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The Schmooze Drag Queen Miz Cracker Gets Her Own Show, ‘JewTorials’
Miz Cracker, Jewish drag queen extraordinaire and gone-too-soon contestant on “RuPaul’s Drag Race” season 10, has landed her own television show on WOW Presents Plus. And yes, obviously, the show is called “JewTorials.” JewTorials comes on the heels of Cracker’s wildly popular “Drag Race” recap series, “Review With a Jew.” While Miz Cracker did not…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Trump Says More Evangelicals Than Jews Thanked Him For Embassy Move
President Donald Trump told former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee that more evangelicals than Jews thanked him for the Jerusalem embassy move, Jewish Insider reports. In an interview with Huckabee for Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), Trump discussed the Jewish and evangelical reaction to moving the US’s embassy to Jerusalem. “I tell you what, I get more…
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Fast Forward Meet The Hasidic Jew Who Is Key To China-U.S. Trade
Reb Moyshe (Mitchell) Silk is not only the first Hasidic Jew to hold a US Administration senior slot, but is key to ongoing trade negotiations between the US and China, a new profile in Mishpacha reports. Silk, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, is an expert in Chinese law and…
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News Read This 16-Year-Old’s Good-Bye To Her Family, Written As Nazis Deported Her
When Sala Kirschner, formerly Sala Garncarz, was separated from her family in the midst of the Holocaust, she did not know when she would see them again. Kirschner and her family were stuck in a Jewish ghetto in occupied southwestern Poland’s Sosnowiec when Kirschner’s older sister, Raizel, was conscripted to work by the Germans. Kirschner…
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Fast Forward Protester Calls Stephen Miller ‘Fascist’ At Mexican Restaurant
A protester yelled “fascist” at Stephen Miller while he was dining in a DC Mexican restaurant, the New York Post reports. Miller was out to dinner on Sunday at Espita Mezcaleria when the protester spoke out. Miller was instrumental in the implementation of the zero-tolerance border policy, and has remained an outspoken proponent of the…
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