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Presidents Conference ‘Transparency’ Questioned After Malcolm Hoenlein Revelations
Two of America’s largest Jewish organizations are raising concerns about Malcolm Hoenlein’s leadership of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in the wake of a Forward report about his undisclosed role on the board of an Israeli gas firm. Hoenlein is the powerful leader of the Presidents Conference, a coalition of American…
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After Conor Lamb, Could Blue ‘Jew Wave’ Help Democrats Retake Congress?
The stunning news of Democrat Conor Lamb’s apparent victory in a closely watched special election for a congressional district in southwestern Pennsylvania sent Jewish Democrats into an unlikely spree of excitement. Lamb’s razor-thin 600-vote win came in a district with relatively few Jewish voters and where Jewish concerns played little or no role. Still, the…
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Jewish Day Schools Across The Country Join Walkouts Demanding Action On Gun Violence
NEW YORK (JTA) — Students at Jewish day schools offered prayers, lit candles and demanded change as part of a nationwide student walkout calling for gun reform in the wake of last month’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Students around the country walked out of class for 17 minutes at 10 a.m. Wednesday to pressure Congress…
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Trump Picks Kudlow To Replace Cohn As Top Economic Advisor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Trump has picked television commentator and economic analyst Larry Kudlow to replace Gary Cohn as the top White House economic adviser, the Washington Post and CNBC reported on Wednesday. CNBC said the announcement of Trump’s decision could come as soon as Thursday. White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters that Trump…
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Orthodox Send Undocumented Domestic Workers On Risky Passover Trip
What do you do when you want to bring the housekeeper to your home in Florida for Passover, but she can’t fly because she is undocumented? This is the conundrum that Israel, a private taxi driver, is here to help you solve. But it will cost you a chunk of change — and it comes…
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Jewish Fraternity Boss Teams Up With Controversial Right-Wing Campus Group
The top executive at the country’s largest Jewish fraternity is an advisor to a controversial right-wing campus organization that has been accused of racial bias
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Is Louis Farrakhan Tearing Apart The Women’s March?
A Jewish staffer of the Women’s March is leaving the movement after expressing dissatisfaction with its response to a co-president’s continued support for the anti-Semitic preacher Louis Farrakhan. The move comes amid continued public frustration within both the Jewish community and local chapters of the organization that the movement has not adequately reckoned with how…
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American Leader Known As ‘King Of The Jews’ Serves On Board Of Israeli Gas Firm
Less than two weeks before the Israeli energy giant Delek Drilling announced a $15 billion deal to pump natural gas to Egypt, one of its board members, Malcolm Hoenlein, told a newspaper that the United States should be “standing up for” Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, despite his troubling human rights record. “You can criticize…
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Louis Farrakhan? Black Jews Say Don’t Take The Bait.
Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, asked a telling question on his Twitter page recently. “What have I done to make the Jewish people hate me?” he wrote. (The next day Farrakhan tweeted that Jews control the FBI.) What have I done to make Jewish people hate me? pic.twitter.com/2cSiLCmsQY — MINISTER FARRAKHAN…
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Does Richard Spencer’s Disastrous College Tour Mean The ‘Alt-Right’ Is Fizzling Out?
Less than a year ago, Richard Spencer led hundreds of angry white nationalists through the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia. This week, he spoke in a barn to only a few dozen people. And that was only after he tried to give away tickets outside a local Macy’s. Spencer’s planned college speaking tour, which he hyped…
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How Did Sam Nunberg Go From A Fancy Jewish School To Trumpland?
Sam Nunberg is known as the “reporter whisperer” for his eagerness to dish with the press and see his name in print. Now it seems his 15 minutes of fame will end quietly, under oath and behind closed doors. Nunberg, a Republican fixer and former aide to Donald Trump during his presidential run, sent the…
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