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Prestigious Jewish High School Rocked By #MeToo Facebook Post About Sex Case
A #MeToo Facebook post has bared a 5-year-old sexual misconduct scandal at a prestigious New York City Modern Orthodox high school, in which a female staff member allegedly engaged in sexual activity with a male sophomore. A recent graduate of SAR High School in the Riverdale section of the Bronx brought the case to public…
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Who Is White Nationalist Leader Richard Spencer?
Richard Spencer does not look like a neo-Nazi. He wears tweed three-piece suits and bowties, and cites Nietzsche as easily as he does Jared Taylor, the founder of “race realist” news site American Renaissance. Spencer advocates for a “peaceful ethnic cleansing” that would precede the creation of a white ethno-state in the United States, a…
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How Bronfman Sisters Bankrolled Secretive ‘Self-Help’ Group With $150M — And Sparked Family Feud
In their early 20s, Sara and Clare Bronfman were looking for some direction in life, a way to focus and find fulfillment. The two youngest daughters of Jewish billionaire Edgar Bronfman Sr. signed up with a “self-help” program in upstate New York that they believed would transform their lives. But the sisters wound up sinking…
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Richard Spencer Sharpens White Supremacist Message — And Brings It To Campus
When 19-year-old Valentina Duarte entered the University of Central Florida this fall to begin studying film, she expected the typical challenges — integrating into campus culture, adjusting to the course load, finding new friends. Instead, she got a white supremacist welcome. “Keep your diversity,” posters plastered across the campus read. “We want identity.” A group…
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‘Miracles’ Survive Amid Ruins Of Fire-Ravaged Jewish Camp
(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Administrators of a Jewish summer camp destroyed by a wildfire in Northern California toured the site for the first time, finding “miracles” amid the devastation. Although most of Camp Newman’s buildings were lost in the North Bay Area wildfires, camp officials said an entrance gate,…
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Why Is This Jewish Politician First In Line For Money From ‘Alt-Right’ Conspiracy Theorists?
Josh Mandel, a U.S. Senate candidate from Ohio, has agreed to accept the first endorsement from a new political fundraising group put together by conspiracy theorists, a move that deepens an unlikely relationship between a Jewish politician and the “alt-right,” an amorphous political movement that has anti-Semitic elements. On October 4, Mike Cernovich and Jack…
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Does ‘Are You Jewish?’ Hasidic Outreach Build Identity — Or Push Secular Jews Further Away?
It is a sight familiar to anyone who takes public transit between Brooklyn and Manhattan in the early fall: a seasonal crush of ultra-Orthodox Jews flooding the city in order to bring the world one step closer to Messianic redemption. On street corners, on campus, on subway platforms and towing a sukkah on the back…
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This Math Teacher From Kansas Has Sparked A Huge Legal Feud Over BDS
All Esther Koontz wanted to do was train fellow Kansas math teachers to be more effective in the classroom. Everything was set: She had completed the special training program. She had signed up to help schools in need of assistance. She’d even gotten requests from several schools via the state Department of Education and had…
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As Wildfires Torch California Summer Camp, Alums Come Together In Solidarity
Arielle Morrison was just a few hours away from her wedding ceremony on Sunday afternoon when she started seeing the Facebook posts about Camp Newman: There was a wildfire menacing Sonoma County, California, encroaching on the grounds of her beloved summer camp. The wildfire was part of the current Northern California firestorm, which has so…
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Artist Yanks Exhibit To Protest Zionist Campaign To ‘Silence’ Playwright
An Israeli-born artist has pulled her installation from an American Jewish Historical Society exhibit to protest the organization’s decision to cancel a reading by a left-wing playwright amid a pro-Israel pressure campaign. Ofri Cnaani’s mixed-media installation “For Her Own Good” was meant to be on display until November, but she took it down on Wednesday,…
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George Soros Denounced By Hungary As ‘Satan’ Seeking To Destroy ‘Christian Europe’
George Soros is “Satan.” And his agenda is one that “from its heart hates Christian Europe’s traditions and civilization.” The word “Jew” was never uttered by two high-profile Hungarian officials in their recent remarks attacking the Hungarian-American hedge fund billionaire and philanthropist. But their message, redolent of classical anti-Semitism, rang out from the country’s parliament…
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