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Rose-Malliotakis House fight poised to rage well past election day
This story was originally published on Oct. 31 by THE CITY. Sign up here to get the latest stories from THE CITY delivered to you each morning. Rep. Max Rose and Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis both concede one thing: Their bitter, nationally watched — and financed — race for Staten Island’s House seat appears destined to…
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Campaigns can tell you’re Jewish. Here’s how they target you.
A hand places stones atop a grave in the classic Jewish ritual of remembrance. The audio mixes the Jewish prayer for mourning with clips of President Donald Trump minimizing the dangers of COVID-19. The video by the Jewish Democratic Council of America is following Jewish voters around the internet on social media, news and shopping…
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Iran is using fake Facebook pages to weaken U.S. support for Israel
Facebook removed more than 20 accounts on Facebook and Instagram in October that were secretly controlled by the Iranian government and were aimed at dividing Americans and Israelis around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to weaken support for Israel, according to Facebook and a think tank that studies extremism. The accounts and pages fall under the category…
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He’s phone banking for Trump— and feeling confident.
For the last six weeks, Phillip Richmond’s schedule has been as follows: An early morning workout at the gym, breakfast while catching up on the news, then three hours of phone banking for the Republican Jewish Coalition to support the re-election of President Donald Trump. “After about three hours your voice gets tired,” Richmond explained….
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Jewish Trump donors still back him, just not out loud
Three days before the Nov. 3 election, a prominent Trump supporter turned down my request for an interview. “This issue is too hot and too divisive for me to speak about on the record,” he wrote in an email. Describing himself as a “recovering Democrat,” this well-connected, well-respected Los Angeles Jew declined to do an…
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4 years of President Trump: A Jewish report card
As President Trump makes his closing arguments for reelection, the staggering events of the last year loom large. The coronavirus pandemic has, to date, taken more than 230,000 American lives, and the country is mired in the most significant economic downturn since the Great Depression. And, though it now feels like ancient history, Trump in…
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In L.A.’s Persian Jewish community, not everyone’s for Trump
While national polls show a large majority of American Jews support former Vice President Joe Biden, Iranian Jewish activists in Southern California say their community largely supports President Donald Trump in his re-election bid. Yet with the election days — hours — away, even that seemingly solid block shows signs of division. “It’s a difficult…
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After fight with city council, Riga’s Holocaust museum lives to see another day
A Riga Holocaust museum has survived an attempt by developers to force it out of the city’s chic warehouse district, but must sign onto a compromise in which it gives up some land and might have to forego a planned renovation. “In this sense, the decision on the fate of the museum is symbolic, it…
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In Brooklyn virus ‘red zone,’ why do some posters only tell healthy people to get tested?
When Borough Park, the hub of Orthodox Jewish life in South Brooklyn, was included in a designated coronavirus “red zone” in South Brooklyn earlier this month, its rate of positive tests for coronavirus was 10.6% — more than five times New York City’s overall rate. For the past three weeks, Borough Park’s leaders — rabbis,…
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In a Paris courtroom, Islamic terror—and France— is on trial
Since early September, 13 men and one woman accused of aiding and abetting the terrorists behind the Jan. 15, 2015 killings at the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices and the Hyper Cacher market have been standing trial in Paris. The trial, delayed for months due to COVID-19, is taking place in a court in northern Paris,…
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Corbyn suspended from Labour after report finds the British party committed ‘unlawful harassment’ against Jews
(JTA) — Jeremy Corbyn was suspended from Britain’s Labour party after he disputed a report released Thursday that found that the party under his leadership was responsible for “unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination” against Jews. The report was published Thursday by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the British government’s watchdog on racism. It…
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