Stewart Ain, an award-winning veteran journalist, covers the Jewish community. Follow him on Twitter @AinStewart or email [email protected].
Stewart Ain
By Stewart Ain
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News In San Francisco, Jews stand with mayor against opening houses of worship too soon
Religious groups that are pushing San Francisco to open up houses of worship to more congregants are doing so without the support of one faith group: Jews. After the United States Department of Justice sent a stern letter to San Francisco Mayor London Breed saying that her ban on indoor worship services, “raises serious concerns…
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News Who’s behind the pro-Trump ads Jewish papers refuse to run?
The ad is striking. At the top, it asks, “If You’re Jewish, WHY are you Still Voting Democrat?” It then asserts that a vote for the Democrats is a vote to defund the police and military, permit harassment of pro-Israel and Jewish college students, reinstate the “disastrous Iran nuclear deal” and “turn our American cities…
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News If Trump wins re-election—or loses— expect more right-wing violence, experts warn
If Donald Trump is reelected president, expect more violence from white nationalists and far-right extremist groups. If he is not reelected, expect more violence as well. That’s the depressing forecast from numerous experts who monitor US-based extremist groups. “Should he win, they will feel increasingly empowered,” said Ken Stern, director of the Bard Center for…
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News Those ‘lifelong Jewish Democrats’ voting for Trump? Turns out half of them usually vote Republican
The Republican Jewish Coalition released a three-minute video featuring what it billed as four “lifelong Jewish Democrats” who were switching party affiliation this year to re-elect Donald Trump. Only one wrinkle — half of them have voted for Republican presidential candidates in the past. “I am an issue voter, not just a party-line person,” one…
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News Jewish nursing homes struggle with extra costs from COVID-19
Jewish nursing homes are hurting. Even as some of their clients fight the coronavirus itself, the homes are struggling with the extra financial burdens that come from preventing the virus’s spread: •Miami Jewish Health, the largest nursing home in southeast Florida, has laid off about 30 employees and furloughed another 10. Though it has received…
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News Jewish schools in suburbs see increased interest due to coronavirus
Bari Klein, her husband and two young children left their apartment in lower Manhattan during the second week of March, swapping the city for the perceived safety of the suburbs as the coronavirus pandemic hit New York City. “We didn’t want to be isolated in an apartment with a family,” she said. Now, they’ve decided…
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News She needs a kidney. The pandemic is in her way.
The coronavirus got to Rachel Bialer’s kidney before she could. Earlier this year, the Port Washington, Long Island woman had hoped that a 27-year-old social worker in San Diego, Calif., might be a compatible kidney donor for her. But surging coronavirus infections in San Diego make it unlikely the social worker will be able to…
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News Philadelphia NAACP head apologizes for anti-Semitic image, not his mosque’s anti-Semitic Facebook page
The Philadelphia president of the NACCP will not be resigning—at least for now. Despite calls for the resignation of Rodney Muhammad for posting an anti-Semitic meme on Facebook, the national NAACP said it has decided with him to “meet with community leaders and faith leaders to open a dialogue” and to also launch “national conversations…
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