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6 Reasons Why Emmanuel Macron’s Holocaust Speech Matters
PARIS (JTA) — It wasn’t the first time that a French president acknowledged his nation’s Holocaust-era guilt, but Emmanuel Macron’s speech Sunday was nonetheless groundbreaking in format, content and style. Delivered during a ceremony at the Vel d’Hiv Holocaust memorial monument exactly 75 years after French police officers rounded up 13,152 Jews there for deportation…
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How Chicago Dyke March Used ‘Zio’ — David Duke’s Favorite Anti-Semitic Prefix
The latest chapter in the Chicago Dyke March controversy unfolded late last week after the group walked back its use of the term “Zio,” a pejorative brought into prominence by former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke and often deployed by white supremacists. The group had tweeted “Zio tears replenish my electrolytes” to mock concerns about…
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Meet The Jewish Activist Who Boosts Trump, Netanyahu — And A Powerful Anti-Semitic Polish Priest
Leaders of Poland’s Jewish community were deeply upset last month when President Trump defied precedent to be the first American leader in decades to forego visiting the monument that commemorates the doomed revolt of Warsaw’s Jews against the Nazis. Worse yet, Trump went to a different monument hailing Polish heroism in World War II where…
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Barry Freundel’s Victims Slam New Play About Mikveh-Peeping Rabbi
A new play based on the real-life scandal involving Barry Freundel, the Orthodox rabbi who secretly videotaped naked women immersing themselves in a Jewish ritual bath, has sparked outrage among his victims. “Constructive Fictions,” written by graphic artist and copywriter A.J. Campbell, is currently being shown at a fringe festival in Washington, D.C. Before being…
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The ‘Firefighter Prophet’ Who Says He Predicted Trump’s Rise
For diehard Donald Trump supporters troubled by this week’s Russia controversy swirling around the president, an unlikely firefighter-turned-prophet has comforting news: This is all part of God’s plan for America, and for Israel. Mark Taylor is a former firefighter from Florida who presents himself as a Christian prophet, based on the claim that God revealed…
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Jared Kushner In Crosshairs As Russia Scandal Widens — And He Pushes Back Hard
At the dawn of the Trump administration, son-in-law Jared Kushner seemed to float above the maelstrom. For establishment figures on both sides of the political aisle, the babyfaced millionaire, who dabbled in newspapers and took over his jailed dad’s real estate business before becoming an adviser to his presidential father-in-law, was seen as a moderating…
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Laura Loomer Is The Jewish Voice Of The Far Right. Can She Tame Jew Haters?
Just as Brutus and his collaborators brandished knives and went in for the kill, one audience member decided to intervene. “Stop the normalization of political violence against the right!” Laura Loomer yelled, storming the stage of Shakespeare in the Park’s now-famous performance of “Julius Caesar.” For a brief second, all was quiet. The would-be assassins,…
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Hasidic ‘Jewish Taliban’ Sect Accused By Teen Of ‘Hell Is Real’ Reign Of Terror
In the aftermath of the drowning of Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans, leader of the “Jewish Taliban” cult Lev Tahor in Mexico, the ultra-Orthodox press in Israel has been rife with reports regarding the location of his funeral and burial, and speculation as to which member of the cult will succeed him as leader of the reclusive…
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WATCH: In Laura Loomer’s First Stunt, She Made An ISIS Club
Laura Loomer had a theory to test out about her college: The school would let her start a club in support of ISIS, so concerned were they with letting everyone have a “voice.” In spring of 2015 she wore a hidden camera to the Center for Student Involvement and touted her pet project: “Sympathetic Students…
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This 650-Year-Old French Synagogue Withstood Anti-Semitism — Then And Now
CARPENTRAS, France (JTA) — The synagogue in this Provence town is Western Europe’s oldest functioning Jewish house of worship — and one of the prettiest on the continent. The Synagogue of Carpentras, which this year is celebrating its 650th anniversary, has a Baroque-style interior and a gold-ornamented hall with a blue domed ceiling. The rabbi’s pulpit is,…
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Controversy Swirls Around Jewish Cemetery Fundraising Push Led By Linda Sarsour
Linda Sarsour and a Muslim charity organization have been accused of not handing out funds raised for the repair of a damaged Jewish cemetery — but others defended the charity for doling out funds raised in the heartwarming interfaith effort. Neil Price, the manager of the Golden Hill cemetery near Denver, Colorado, told the Algemeiner…
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