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5 Sukkahs That Might Just Make The World A Better Place
(JTA) — Sukkot, the Jewish harvest festival, has always been a holiday about enjoying the season, accepting human vulnerability and, while eating and sleeping in a fragile temporary booth, or sukkah, appreciating divine protection. But every year Jews — and sometimes non-Jews — find ways to also make the holiday about improving the world. We’ve…
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Caving To Pressure, Jewish Group Cancels Play By Critic Of Israel
The American Jewish Historical Society has cancelled a play reading and a historical panel sponsored by left-wing critics of Israel amid a campaign against the new executive director of the Center for Jewish History. The AJHS, which is housed in the CJH’s building in Manhattan, told co-sponsors on Monday that it was cancelling an upcoming…
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Anti-Semitic ‘Alt-Right’ Pounces On Harvey Weinstein Scandal To Bolster Conspiracy Theories
White supremacists on the “alt-right” are gleefully jumping on accusations that Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed employees and actresses for decades as “evidence” of their anti-Semitic worldview. Pointing to Weinstein, some on the far right say his story illustrates that Jews have a perverse and degenerative effect on American society — and are contributing…
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How Natalie Grumet Stumbled Upon A Stranger Who Saved Her Life In Las Vegas Massacre
If Natalie Grumet had not sought refuge in the Tropicana Hotel after being shot in the Las Vegas massacre last week, she may not have escaped with her life. Grumet and her friend, who was also shot, happened to bang on the door of a laundry room where Dr. Larry Bohlen and his wife Laura,…
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Can A Jew Snatch Bob Corker’s Seat In Deep-Red Tennessee?
Has James Mackler taken leave of his senses? Resigning from a comfortable partnership in one of Nashville’s top law firms? And to run for the U.S. Senate in a Mid-South Bible Belt state as a Jew, married to a rabbi—and, maybe tougher—as a progressive Democrat? Sitting in an unassuming local coffee shop, the fit, dark-haired…
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Chabad Feuds With Jewish Leaders Over Cozy Ties To Eastern European Autocrats
In the former Communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, established mainstream Jewish groups are increasingly worried that Chabad, the international Hasidic movement, is allying itself with authoritarian governments. In countries from Hungary to Russia, they say, Chabad is at times playing down anti-Semitism in a bid to compete with local Jewish groups and win…
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Seth Klarman Secretly Holds Puerto Rican Debt, Supported Charter Schools
This week an online investigative magazine revealed that Jewish mega-donor Seth Klarman owns nearly $1 billion in Puerto Rican debt, a fact he tried to hide by holding the asset in layers of shell companies. Klarman has also made some secretive political donations, using “dark money” groups to support charter schools and fight teachers’ unions….
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Klarman’s Undisclosed Financial Transactions Aren’t Limited To Puerto Rico
The recent revelation that the hedge fund controlled by Boston billionaire Seth Klarman owns nearly $1 billion in Puerto Rican debt shouldn’t have surprised anyone following Klarman’s involvement in political issues. Klarman, a mega-donor to Jewish and other communal causes, has often chosen to utilize “dark money” when it comes to causes in which a…
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Las Vegas Conspiracy Theory Spreads On Web — Fueled By Age-Old Anti-Semitic Tropes
In the hours after the Las Vegas shooting, conspiracy theorists wasted no time heading to internet enclaves of misinformation to weigh in. Commenters on Twitter, YouTube and certain internet forums variously asserted that gunman Stephen Paddock was a far-left activist or an Islamic State soldier — and that he “looked Jewish.” A string of YouTube…
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‘Zioness’ Group Adds Pro-Israel Voice To Racial Justice Marches — And Sows Bitter Controversy
Members of the nascent Jewish organization arrived at the racial justice rally with posters and T-shirts bearing the group’s name and logo, tailed by a friend with a video camera and a security guard. They were not a welcome sight to the longtime social justice leaders in the crowd — especially the Jewish ones. Calling…
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A Bullet Missed Her Brain By Inches — Now Las Vegas Survivor Leans On Jewish Faith
After two nights of country music, Jason Grumet was tuckered out. He and his wife of 14 years, Natalie Grumet, were in town with his mother and some friends and family to take in the three-day Route 91 Harvest festival and enjoy the neon-splashed fun of the Las Vegas Strip. Even though it was held…
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