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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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50 years of Jewish voting habits, deconstructed
Throughout the turbulent last four years, various pundits have predicted either that President Donald Trump could attract unusually high numbers of Jewish votes during the 2020 election cycle — or lose many of the ones he had in 2016. As American careens toward a historic Election Day, the picture remains a bit muddled, with news…
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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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