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J Street Founder With Famous Name Launches Bid For Wisconsin Congress Seat
Wisconsin’s 6th Congressional district has been sending Republicans to Congress for decades. But Dan Kohl, a Jewish Democrat who was among the founding members of J Street, believes he can flip the district from red to blue. Kohl, whose uncle Herb Kohl represented Wisconsin in the U.S. Senate for four terms, is among the first…
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Jews Applaud Harvard For Revoking Admission Over Anti-Semitic Memes
Jewish students at Harvard applauded the school’s decision to rescind the admission of a group of incoming Freshman who shared racist and anti-Semitic memes in a private Facebook group. “The university will be a much better place without their toxic influence,” Gabriel Dardik, an incoming freshman to Harvard wrote to the Forward in an email….
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Steve Bannon Consolidates White House Power As Jared Kushner Battles Russia Probe
In the Byzantine world of President Trump’s inner circle, it’s now Jared Kushner’s turn to be down — while Steve Bannon is on his way up. At least this is the way Trump political-watchers view the current ebb and flow of White House power struggles, where the conservative wing led by Bannon is once again…
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Will ‘Other Shoe’ Drop In Hasidic Village After Developer Pleads Guilty To Voter Fraud?
In his years-long battle to build thousands of homes for Orthodox Jews in the small upstate New York village of Bloomingburg, developer Shalom Lamm often cast himself as a victim of anti-Semitism. On Tuesday, Lamm took on a new role: admitted felon. Lamm, son of one of Modern Orthodoxy’s most prominent rabbinic leaders, pled guilty…
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Mystery Death Of Killer’s Brother Dredges Up Leiby Kletzky Horror In Hasidic Brooklyn
Six summers ago, Leiby Kletzky’s angelic face was everywhere in New York. The 8-year-old Hasidic boy vanished on his first day walking home from day camp in his neighborhood in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn. The city’s worst fears became reality a few days later when his dismembered body was discovered stashed in a…
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This Firebrand African Leader Has A Surprising Message: ‘I Am A Jew’
After spending year and a half imprisoned by the Nigerian government, the populist leader was finally free and surrounded by his supporters. He wore a long gown with a prayer shawl draped over his shoulders. Raising his hands, he greeted the crowd with one Hebrew word: “Shalom.” Is one of Nigeria’s most famous political activists…
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How Rabbis Are Trying To Make The Conservative Movement More Gay-Friendly
The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony known as a bar mitzvah is always challenging. It happens at the awkward age of the early teen years, and requires the child to chant, before family, friends and congregation, from the archaic Hebrew of the Torah. For Amichai Lau-Lavie, the Israeli-born scion of an Eastern European rabbinical dynasty, it was…
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Sarsour At CUNY Graduation: ‘Wrong Is Wrong, No Matter Who Does It Or Says It.’
A speech by Palestinian-American civil rights advocate Linda Sarsour at the graduation ceremony of the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy was largely uneventful, despite the controversy that had surrounded Sarsour’s selection as speaker. “I’m from Brooklyn, and I came here to tell it like it is,” Sarsour…
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Campus Where Jewish Professor Was Targeted By ‘Mob’ Shut Down Amid Threats
A day after a Jewish professor’s complaints about being targeted by a left-wing “campus mob” went viral, the college at which he teaches was shut down in response to what the school called a “direct threat.” The nature of the threat that closed Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, was not immediately clear, and spokespeople…
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Why Do Some Christians Observe Shavuot?
Today marks the end of Shavuot and this Sunday is the Christian holiday of Pentecost. It’s not a simple coincidence that the two holidays fall at the same time. They’re historically — and theologically — linked. What do the sacred days have to do with each other? Shavuot falls on the sixth day of the…
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Portland Stabber Is A ‘Flurry Of Anger’ Who Wanted To Send Jews ‘To The Ovens’
The Portland man accused of aggravated murder in two brutal knife slayings last week called himself a Viking who worshipped Odin. He supported Bernie Sanders before rallying around Trump and vowed to kill supporters of Hillary Clinton. He wanted to wipe away the corrupt American society he saw around himself, but believed he was a…
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