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Atlanta’s Jews Split As Jon Ossoff Run For Congress Heads To Finish Line
Several weeks before the April primary for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District seat, the editor of the Atlanta Jewish Times invited readers to use the newspaper, particularly its website, as a forum “to talk about the merits of the candidates and the needs of the district, the state and the nation.” Readers since then have responded…
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Trump Weighs In Against Jon Ossoff In Last-Minute Tweet
A day before voters in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District go to the polls in the most expensive House race in history, President Trump turned to Twitter in a last-minute push to attack Democrat Jon Ossoff. “The Dems want to stop tax cuts, good healthcare and Border Security. Their ObamaCare is dead with 100% increases in…
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Why Is This Interfaith Group Pushing For Sanctions Against Qatar?
Wading into the Middle East’s most recent controversy, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has launched a campaign aimed at increasing pressure against the Gulf nation of Qatar. The group, which raises more than $140 million a year from Christian donors in the United States for Israelis in need, launched an ad campaign against…
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Can Hasidic Village Survive Voter Fraud Scandal?
The tiny, bucolic village of Bloomingburg in upstate New York boasts a picture-postcard prettiness, with rolling hills, weather-beam barns and an old-fashioned ice cream spot. But the battle between locals and Orthodox Jewish developers has cast a pall over the place, and now the long-running saga has taken another strange turn with the builders pleading…
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This Week In Chicago: Hunger, From Feeding The Poor To Feeding Yourself
There are three Jewish responses to hunger. You can eat. You can feel guilty about what you ate, or what you don’t want to eat, or about people who don’t get to eat. Or you can do something about making sure everyone else can eat, too. Response one: If you feel like celebrating summer, you…
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Meet Jay Sekulow, A Jewish-Born Believer In Jesus, On Trump’s Legal Team
President Donald Trump welcomed an unlikely darling of the Christian right to his inner circle of defenders in mid-June. Attorney Jay Sekulow, the newest addition to Trump’s personal legal defense team, has been accused of fraud in the past. He has put his family in charge of his organizations. And he has been instrumental in…
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Diving Into Intermarriage Debate, Manhattan ‘Mega-Synagogue’ Welcomes Non-Jews
B’nai Jeshurun stands on 88th Street among expensive Upper West Side apartments, an impressive synagogue in an elegant Moorish style. It’s best known for lively and well-attended Shabbat services, which can attract thousands of congregants, including a distinctive, progressive core of Jewish movers and shakers. Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has attended, as well as…
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Jared And Ivanka Do Their Own Thing As Observant Jews. And That’s Normal.
(JTA) — So apparently Jared and Ivanka play golf on Shabbat. Cue the hand wringing . The New York Post reported Wednesday that the president’s Jewish daughter and son-in-law like to hit the links on the holy day, and stay within the bounds of the Sabbath rules by walking the course (instead of driving a…
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Is It Kosher For Jared And Ivanka To Golf On Shabbat?
President Donald Trump owns some of the world’s most famous golf courses – so it’s no surprise that first daughter Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner like to hit a few balls every now and then. But are they violating the Sabbath by hitting the links on Saturdays — and should we even care? The…
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The Jewish ‘Moses Of The Alt Right’ Has A New Book
The man called the “Jewish godfather of the ‘alt-right’” has a new book out this year — and white nationalist websites are applauding the work. Author and academic Paul Gottfried, mentor to Richard Spencer and self-described “paleoconservative,” released his thirteenth book this spring, a collection of essays titled “Revisions and Dissents.” In the book’s introduction,…
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How This Reform Jew Became A ‘Deplorable’ Pro-Trump Militia Leader
Joshua Ruben Braff loaded his AR-15 rifle, took aim at a target on the other side of the hill and fired a magazine. Shots rang over the wooded hills and shells fell to the muddy ground around his boots. Braff turned around, signaled with his hand and another man took his place. Around 30 members…
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