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How this Texas border rabbi holds a divided synagogue together
With just days left before the presidential election, Rabbi Ben Zeidman’s inbox has been filling with emails from congregants offering conflicting answers to the same set of questions. “Who’s better for Israel? Who likes or hates the Jews? Who’s courting antisemitic leaders?” Zeidman said. “You replace one political party leader with another — one presidential…
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Nursing homes cut staff and programs as elderly, terrified of COVID-19, stay away
Founded in 1951, the William Breman Jewish Home in Atlanta can serve seniors with a range of needs, from those who have lost their memory to those who just require a little help to live on their own. In normal times, about 130 people live there — and there’s a waiting list. Today, 15% of…
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Two weeks after Twitter bans Holocaust denial, Twitter’s CEO says it’s still allowed
Two weeks ago, Twitter banned Holocaust denial. Or did it? The company announced earlier this month that it would ban posts that “deny or diminish” violent events, including the Holocaust. But in a Senate hearing Wednesday, CEO Jack Dorsey appeared to say that Twitter did not have a policy of removing content denying the Holocaust….
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Abraham Grossman, 95, Fled Germany As A Boy But Returned As A Soldier Bearing Jewish Insignia
(JTA) — When Abraham Grossman was a teenager, he fled his native Germany on what came to be known as the kindertransport, a rescue effort that brought about 10,000 Jewish children fleeing the Nazis to England. He returned just a few years later, but by then he was as a proud fighter in the British…
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‘Loxism’ is not the belief in lox
OCT. 27, 2020 • 7 DAYS UNTIL THE ELECTION Welcome to FAHRENHEIT 411, a special newsletter on disinformation and conspiracy theories ahead of the 2020 presidential election. It is produced in partnership with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based think tank that studies extremism, and written by Molly Boigon, an investigative reporter at The…
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Jewish orgs back Prop. 16 despite complicated history with affirmative action
On Nov. 5, 1996, Californians woke up and headed to the polls, showing strong support for an incumbent Democratic president, modestly increasing the state’s minimum wage (to $5 per hour), seating an 80-member state Assembly and half of a state Senate, and by a narrow margin banning affirmative action by state organizations. Prop. 209, the…
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Local Georgia race draws Philadelphia cops, Soros and a whiff of antisemitism
George Soros, the billionaire Jewish philanthropist, is back in campaign news again — as if he ever left. This time he has popped up in a controversial race in coastal Georgia, but the Philadelphia-based group behind the ads says it is targeting at least 40 candidates nationwide. In Georgia, Democratic lawyer Shalena Cook Jones is…
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To fight radical Islam, France is limiting religious freedoms — with the blessing of its Jewish minority
As the French government rolls out a controversial plan that amounts to its most robust crackdown on religious activity in decades, it is enjoying broad support from at least one of the country’s faith communities: French Jews. Jewish community leaders have applauded President Emmanuel Macron’s effort to counter what he calls “Islamist separatism” with a…
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The second Tree of Life shooting commemoration will bring people together in an age of separation
A global pandemic isn’t keeping the Pittsburgh Jewish community from coming together for a virtual commemoration to honor the victims of the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre. The event on Oct. 27 marks two years since the mass shooting at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania claimed the lives of 11 people, the deadliest…
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I’m the archivist of the Tree of Life shooting. This is how I ‘process’ it.
The attack on October 27, 2018, lasted 83 minutes from the moment the gunman entered the synagogue until the moment the police apprehended him. In the 18 months since that Saturday morning, I have collected 189 boxes of things documenting the impact of those 83 minutes on the Jewish population of Western Pennsylvania. “Things” in…
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Almost all American Jews say anti-Semitism is a problem, according to a new poll. Half of Americans don’t know what it means.
(JTA) — Nearly half of Americans don’t know what the phrase “anti-Semitism” means. That’s one takeaway from two surveys published Monday by the American Jewish Committee. The surveys asked Jews and the general American public about anti-Semitism in the United States. The Jewish survey found that a large majority of Jews consider anti-Semitism a problem,…
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