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Liberal Synagogues See ‘Trump Bump’ As Pews Fill Up
Liberal synagogues, especially those where rabbis are outspoken about the values espoused by President Trump, are finding that attendance and membership are up – way up – since last November. Call it the “Trump bump.” It’s happening against the backdrop of the long-term trend of shrinking membership in liberal synagogues. In many places it includes…
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Evil Soros: Dog Whistling Anti-Semitism In Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
For over a year now, Hungary’s leader, Viktor Orbán, has been waging an increasingly shrill campaign against billionaire George Soros, using classical anti-Semitic imagery to signal to his listeners that the Hungarian-born American businessman is a shadowy foreign Jew exercising sinister influence over their country. It is an invocation that is deeply ironic on at…
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MAP: 148 Bomb Threats Strike Jewish Community — And Counting
On Sunday May 28, Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes day school in North Miami Beach received a bomb threat and a faxed demand for $25,000 in ransom. This latest bomb threat made to a Jewish communal target comes over 2 months after Israel’s anti-fraud squad arrested 19-year-old Israeli-American Michael Kaydar on March 23, who is…
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ADL Says Right-Wing Terror As Dangerous As ‘Radical Islam’ — But Often Ignored
On St. Patrick’s Day, 28-year-old James Harris Jackson boarded a bus in Washington and rode it to New York looking for black men to kill. He found Timothy Caughman, a 66-year-old African-American who was scavenging for cans in Midtown Manhattan around the corner from his home. Jackson pulled out a sword and fatally stabbed the…
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Is Gal Gadot On Her Way To Being The Biggest Israeli Superstar Ever?
(JTA) — Try to think of the most famous Israelis in history. Not necessarily the most consequential or “important” ones — like any number of Nobel Prize winners or behind-the-scenes Middle East peace deal negotiators — but those who are most universally recognizable. Most lists would likely include a pioneering role model (Golda Meir), a…
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The Ancient Art Of Jewish Storytelling Gets A Reboot, In Podcasts And Classes
David Arfa’s walks in the woods might seem like an ordinary embrace of the outdoors. But those hikes – on which he leads groups of children – actually form part of a venerable Jewish tradition. Arfa, who lives in western Massachusetts, identifies as a maggid, a religious storyteller common across Eastern Europe, especially in the…
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How Trump’s Mideast Peace Overture Puts J Street Liberals In A Bind
It’s a dilemma many left-wing Jewish activists are facing these days: How should doves deal with President Donald Trump’s pivot to Middle East peacemaking? Can the same activists who fought fiercely against Trump’s election and who oppose almost everything he stands for embrace the president’s effort to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? “The overwhelming, if not…
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Meet Ben Jacobs, The Reporter Who Got Body-Slammed By Montana House Candidate
Ben Jacobs earned a strange distinction on Wednesday night as he became the first reporter in recent memory to be physically assaulted by a candidate for Congress. Working for the United States edition of The Guardian, Jacobs was body-slammed by Montana House hopeful Greg Gianforte, who erupted in rage after Jacobs asked him a question…
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Jewish Reporter ‘Body Slammed’ By Raging Republican As Montana Votes For Congress
Montana Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte was charged with assault on Wednesday after he “body slammed” a Jewish reporter on the eve of a special election to fill the state’s lone seat in the House of Representatives. The Gallatin County sheriff’s office issued the citation for misdemeanor assault hours after Ben Jacobs, a political correspondent…
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Muslim Imam Consoles Jewish Woman — And Melts Heart Of Mourning Manchester
A Muslim cleric and an elderly Jewish woman melted the heart of a grieving nation with their poignant embrace at the scene of the Manchester terror attack. Rachel Black, 93, and Sadiq Patel, an imam, came together in grief and worship on Wednesday at a memorial for the 22 people killed and scores wounded in…
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Meet The Hasidic Army Vet Set To Run Troubled Long Island Schools
Students in the overwhelmingly black and Hispanic school district of Hempstead, New York, on Long Island, may be forgiven this fall if it takes them awhile to get used to their new superintendent — a Hasidic Jew who wears a dark coat and hat, sports a beard and has a yarmulke made of velvet. Shimon…
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