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Can Rod Rosenstein Survive The Growing Firestorm Over Comey Firing?
When he accepted the role of deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein had no way of knowing he would end up right smack in the middle of the biggest crisis to rock Donald Trump’s presidency so far. The Jewish lawyer from Maryland rode a low-key reputation as a fair-minded federal prosecutor to overwhelming congressional confirmation —…
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Mikvah In Boston Suburb Dedicated To Terror Victim Ezra Schwartz
Religious leaders, family members and politicians gathered in the Boston suburb of Sharon on Sunday to mark the groundbreaking of construction on a new mikvah (Jewish ritual bath) in honor of local terror victim Ezra Schwartz. Named Mikvah Mei Ezra (Mikvah Helping Waters), the new bath is part of a renovation project at the Mikvah…
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Carl Bernstein Says Trump Is Corrupt And Lazy — Like Nixon Of Watergate
Carl Bernstein knows a corrupt president when he sees one – after all, this is the man who helped bring down President Richard Nixon in 1974. “Donald Trump suffers from ethical blindness regarding conflicts of interests of a kind we have never seen in a presidency in the United States in the current era,” the…
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Israeli Paratroopers Re-Create Iconic Photo Of Six-Day War
JERUSALEM (JTA) – David Rubinger’s iconic photograph of three paratroopers at the Western Wall is the defining image of the 1967 Six-Day War. The men in the photo — Dr. Yitzhak Yifat, Tzion Karasenti and Chaim Oshri — have proudly served as symbols of the historic Israeli victory for the past five decades. But in an…
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EXCLUSIVE: Workers At Marvin Hier’s Museum Seek To Unionize After Inauguration Speech
Workers at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance say they were driven to form a union after Rabbi Marvin Hier, the center’s founder and dean, gave the benediction at Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony in January. Many tour guides and front-line staffers at the Los Angeles museum are paid minimum wage, receive no health insurance,…
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7 Apps That Make Life Easier For Observant Jews
(JTA) — These days there are smartphone applications for pretty much anything, from ordering food to finding a date to reporting anti-Semitic incidents. But what about tools for living a religious Jewish life? Well, there are apps for that, too. Whereas in the time before smartphones, observant Jews may have had to ask their rabbis certain…
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How Kendrick Lamar Was ‘Blown Away’ By Hebrew Israelite Beliefs
The rapper Kendrick Lamar has long explored spiritual or religious themes in his critically-acclaimed and chart-topping work. On his fourth studio album, he surprised some by evoking beliefs associated with Hebrew Israelites. “I’m an Israelite, don’t call me black no more,” Lamar recited on his April release titled “Damn.” A voicemail from someone identified as…
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Israeli Envoy Dani Dayan Insists ‘Conscience Is Clear’ On 50 Years Of Occupation
In an interview a week before President Trump is set to visit Israel on his first overseas trip, Israel’s consul general in New York, Dani Dayan, presented an image of a government supremely confident in its own moral position, and committed to maintenance of the status quo in the West Bank. “If I take a…
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Israel Right Winger Says Trump Peace Plan Is DOA — And She’s Happy
NEW YORK (JTA) — Ten days before Donald Trump was inaugurated, Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked visited the Jewish settlement in Hebron. A community of several hundred ensconced in a city of 150,000 Palestinians, Hebron’s Jewish residents are considered to be among the most extremist and controversial Israeli settlers. Shaked, 41, wearing black jeans and…
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Sebastian Gorka’s Speech Vs. The Facts
As one of the Forward reporters responsible recently for a series of critical stories on Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s top counterterrorism adviser, I would like to publicly thank Gorka for one of his high-profile comments yesterday. “Nobody found one sentence that I have said that is anti-Semitic or anti-Israeli,” Gorka told his audience at The…
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Sebastian Gorka Plays Israel Card In Pushback On Ties To Nazi Allies
Facing an adoring crowd of pro-Israeli Jews, President Trump’s controversial aide Sebastian Gorka sought to frame the discussion regarding his affiliation with pro-Nazi organizations as part of an organized campaign by critics of Israel. “Because we are pro-Israel we have to be attacked,” Gorka said at the annual Jerusalem Post conference held in New York….
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