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Jewish Twitter tried to pray for Trump, but Stephen Miller’s diagnosis generates only jokes
While a debate broke out among liberal Jews on Twitter, as to whether they should pray for the president of the United States after his positive COVID-19 diagnosis, nobody in those circles seems to have any such qualms about his senior aide, Stephen Miller. Widely known as the architect of the Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies,…
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Jews of color host virtual ‘sukkah hop’ for Biden campaign— the first of its kind
A group of Jews of color, in partnership with Jewish Americans For Biden, is hosting a virtual sukkah hop and “friendraising” event Wednesday evening ahead of the vice-presidential debate. It is the first event of its kind featuring Jews of color, according to one of the organizers, Ginna Green, who is a political strategist and…
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Joe Lieberman endorses his son Matt for Senate. But there’s that novel…
Matt Lieberman is a 52-year-old attorney, single father of two young women, and former principal of an Atlanta-area Jewish school. The son of longtime Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman is also raising the ire of his fellow Georgia Democrats by refusing to exit an expensive and complicated Senate race, despite being called out by the state…
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Orthodox stage mask-burning protest in Brooklyn, furious at new COVID-19 rules
Hundreds of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn thronged the streets of Borough Park last night to protest New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new COVID-19 restrictions, which directly target Orthodox neighborhoods with high infection rates and would dramatically disrupt Orthodox life during the last week of the High Holidays. At the gathering, a video shared on social…
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Did a maskless, post-hospital Trump violate Jewish medical ethics?
Hero or heel? On the one hand, there was President Trump, COVID-19-stricken, but waving to his adoring fans from inside a black limousine on Sunday, a photo-op joyride as a break in his three-day stay at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Returning to the White House a day later, he proclaimed in a Tweet…
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Your guide to the disinformation plaguing the 2020 campaign
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 Forward. A Wikipedia article about “genetic studies on Jews” was…
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Jewish pols experienced 6,000 antisemitic tweets in a month, says ADL
Jewish incumbents running for reelection were bombarded with antisemitism on Twitter over the summer, according to a study released Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL found that between July 23 and August 22, 30 incumbent Jewish members of the House and Senate received a total of nearly 6,000 antisemitic tweets, about 10% of the…
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With Cuomo on warpath, Orthodox Jews worry that COVID-19 shutdown will backfire
New York City’s Orthodox community is expressing outrage at school and business closures ordered Monday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio in response to spiking rates of positive coronavirus tests. Orthodox leaders say they are being unfairly targeted by de Blasio’s and Cuomo’s bold approaches — and confrontational rhetoric — in the…
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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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Cuomo, pointing finger at Orthodox community, will shut down schools in virus hotspots
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a striking challenge to leaders in the Orthodox Jewish community on Monday, demanding that they comply with state rules capping attendance at religious gatherings and enforce mask wearing in order to avoid a total shutdown of religious institutions. The challenge came after the governor announced that, effective Tuesday, he…
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For the homeless, Sukkot is year-round
Sukkot came early to Venice, Calif., this year. The fall Jewish holiday rolled in around June. That’s when I first noticed full-fledged huts popping up in my neighborhood. They were dead ringers for the temporary shelters Jews put up to mark Sukkot, with bamboo or fabric walls, and roofs that included palm fronds, bamboo stalks…
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