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Disbarred Mega-Lawyer Removed By JNF From Website After Forward Report
The Jewish National Fund has removed the name of a disbarred lawyer from its website, hours after the Forward revealed that the JNF had continued to list him as a member of its national board despite long-running legal scandal. Stanley Chesley, a former president of the JNF, has been ordered to pay $42 million to…
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Why Is A Disgraced Lawyer In $42M Scam Still On The JNF Board?
In 2013, the highest court in the state of Kentucky disbarred Stanley Chesley, the fabulously wealthy trial lawyer once known as the “master of disaster” for his representation of victims of horrific catastrophes. The creator of the modern class action lawsuit, Chesley is now enmeshed in one of the worst U.S. legal scandals in recent…
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GOP Tries To Embarrass Democrats By Pushing Israel Vote During Shutdown
It’s the first vote of the new United States Senate – but it’s doubling as a preview of the 2020 presidential campaign. Senate Democrats on Tuesday night blocked a bill sponsored by Republican Senator Marco Rubio that includes aid for Israel and also controversial curbs on supporting the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction…
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Meet America’s Only Jewish Political Dynasty: The Levins Of Michigan
For as long as Andy Levin can remember, politics was part of his life. He was 4 when his father, Sander Levin, was first elected to Michigan’s State Senate; he spent his pre-teens traipsing around the state through Dad’s two failed gubernatorial bids; and he returned from a college gap year in India to find…
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Mayor Says Jews Pressured Civil Rights Museum Into Scrapping Award For Angela Davis
Birmingham, Alabama’s mayor says that protests from the “local Jewish community” led to the cancellation of an award ceremony for a controversial civil rights icon. But questions remain about what role local Jewish leaders played played. In a statement Saturday night, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, a museum focusing on the history of segregation and…
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For Rabbis, Whichever Days They Get Off Are The Sacred Ones
“Everybody’s working for the weekend,” as the song goes. Except rabbis. They work on the weekend. Friday nights are for evening services and hosting guests at home. On Saturdays, the rabbi is at synagogue by 8 or 8:30 a.m. for the main event of his or her week: Shabbat services, with Torah reading. Sunday morning…
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Jewish Charities Step In With Loans As Federal Workers Feel Shutdown’s Pinch
When the federal government shut down in late 1995, leaving federal workers without paychecks for nearly a month, Fran Kritz and her family worried that they could lose their home. “We had a new baby and a toddler,” said Kritz, whose husband is a federal employee. “We had no extra money. At that point in…
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Tamika Mallory Irks North Carolina Jews With MLK Day Speech In Asheville
Members of the Jewish community in Asheville, North Carolina are angry that a local university has invited Women’s March co-president Tamika Mallory to be the main speaker for this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. week activities. “I was greatly dismayed that Dr. King’s legacy would be tainted by having Ms. Mallory, who is a friend…
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Even Proud Zionist Students Think This Hillel Is Way Too Focused On Israel
When Ben Novak arrived at Northeastern University in Boston as a first-year student in the fall of 2016, he went looking for a place to pray, and meet other Jews. So naturally, he turned to the local Hillel. But a few months later, the Hillel descended into chaos amid complaints from students that it was…
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Hebrew Israelite Synagogue Pleads For Rebuilding Help — From Mainstream Jewry
At B’nai Adath Kol Beth Israel, a Hebrew Israelite congregation in Brooklyn, the rabbis have long doubled as handymen. They’ve fixed plumbing problems and frayed electrical wiring. Thirty years ago, they bought filtration masks and hazmat suits and replaced the asbestos-laden piping in the building. “We made it work,” said Rabbi Baruch Yehudah, the spiritual…
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When Jewish Leaders Decide To Harass College Kids — To ‘Support’ Israel
In June of 2015, one of the leading intellectuals of the Jewish establishment stood on stage in front of hundreds of American Jewish leaders and called for the community to picket outside the home of a college junior. It was the keynote speech at the American Jewish Committee’s annual conference in a year when the…
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