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EXPLAINED: What’s Anti-Semitic About QAnon, The Trump Base’s Latest Pet Theory?
Many people might think that the most interesting part of President Trump’s rally in Florida on Tuesday was when he claimed that shoppers needed photo IDs to buy groceries. But those in the know noticed something else: many attendees wearing clothing or holding signs featuring the letter Q. The letter is a reference to “QAnon,”…
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Trump Keeps White Supremacist Donations To 2020 Campaign
Almost exactly a year ago, white supremacists, Jew haters and racists of various stripes gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia at what they called the “Unite the Right” rally. One person was killed; many were injured and armed marchers menaced the town’s only synagogue during Shabbat services. Trump told reporters, “I think there is blame on both…
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Is Trump More Closely Tied To Cohen’s Taxi Business Than Tweet Implies?
Michael Cohen could be taking President Trump for a ride. Trump again denied prior knowledge of his son’s June 2016 meeting with Russians promising dirt on Hillary Clinton during a recent tweetstorm. He also alluded to Cohen’s potential legal problems with his taxi medallion holdings as an “unrelated jam.” The tweet came after reports the…
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Rabbi Will Do Interfaith Weddings – If The Kids Are Jewish
After mulling over the controversial question for three decades, Rabbi Joe Black has changed his mind. The leader of the largest Reform congregation in the Denver is now conducting interfaith wedding ceremonies. In a letter and sermon to his synagogue, Temple Emanuel, in May, Black said that he could not in good conscience turn away…
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Former Top ZOA Official Sues Mort Klein, Alleging Financial Misconduct
In a lawsuit filed Friday, the former executive director of the Zionist Organization of America accused its longtime president, Mort Klein, of taking secret off-the-books payments from donors, sabotaging the group’s tax exemption to hide his inflated salary, and retaliating after the former executive director blew the whistle on his alleged misconduct. The July 26…
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Is This Jewish Doctor Secretly A White Nationalist?
A Jewish doctor at a New York City hospital has been “placed off duty” after an article posted online Monday claimed that he was Facebook friends with white supremacists and had frequently commented on some of the web’s most high-profile hate sites, including the writing of “A Jewish Defense of Anti-Semitism” and approving reflections on…
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Lawsuit Protesting Special Standards For Jewish Schools Might Get Thrown Out
More than 100,000 children in Orthodox Jewish schools in New York state are getting a substandard education that makes it virtually impossible for them to function in secular society, a federal lawsuit brought by former students alleges — but the suit has a potentially fatal legal weakness that might get it thrown out, experts say….
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Jewish Candidates Help Bolster Democratic Fundraising In Swing Districts
Mike Levin said small donations have paid off for him in a big way. The Southern California Democrat is part of a slew of swing-district candidates whose strong fundraising numbers experts consider an indicator the party has a shot of retaking the House of Representatives in November. Levin, whose father is Jewish and mother’s parents…
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Why Was A ‘Righteous Gentile’ Turned Away From The Cemetery He’s Trying To Save?
Richard Levin, a reproductive surgeon in Louisville, Kentucky, has been researching his family history for over two decades. Several years ago, he uncovered the name of a relative — the brother of his great-great-grandmother — in New York City archives. But Levin’s busy schedule kept him from going to the relative’s grave in the dilapidated…
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Predator Taught At Elite Jewish School A Decade Later Than First Reported
An educator convicted of molesting a child and accused of molesting at least three others worked at a Jewish school in New York for longer than the school initially reported, the Forward has learned. SAR Academy, a prestigious Modern Orthodox day school, sent a letter to parents in January stating that Stanley Rosenfeld was their…
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Can The Senate Stop The Iraqi Jewish Archive From Being Returned To Iraq?
The Iraqi Jewish Archive, a trove of items from Iraq’s Jewish community that made its way to the United States for restoration, is at the center of a complex web of issues touching on the forced exodus of Middle Eastern Jews from their home countries, U.S. policy regarding those Jews’ claims to stolen property, the…
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