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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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Trump Foreign Aid Cuts Slammed As ‘Devastating’
Cuts to foreign aid laid out in the White House’s proposed 2018 budget could have a dramatic effect on human rights, development and the environment around the world, advocates warn. The budget has little chance of passing in Congress, but does serve as a powerful statement of the Trump administration’s priorities — priorities that have…
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Jewish History On The Prairie Lures Scores To A North Dakota Graveyard
Amid the rolling prairie, under the vast Dakota sky, a small fence encloses 20 headstones with surprising Hebrew markings in a field outside the town of Ashley, population 750. Local farmers pass it as they drive for groceries into the town, which has no Jews among its residents. But the graveyard’s most frequent mourners are…
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Professor Branded ‘Dirty Jew’ After Confronting ‘Nazi’ Richard Spencer — But She Isn’t Jewish
A suburban Washington, D.C., gym canceled the membership of “alt-right” leader Richard Spencer last week after a professor from Georgetown University recognized and confronted him, calling him a “cowardly Nazi” in public. Now, anti-Semitic trolls are targeting the professor online. “That’s Professor ‘Jew Pig Whore,’” one Twitter user wrote. Another called her a Jewess and…
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Rabbi Marvin Hier Slams Trump’s Israeli Intel Leak
Donald Trump’s inauguration rabbi has become the first leader of a major Jewish organization to criticize the president over his reported leak of Israeli intelligence to Russian officials. “No president should do that,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, who delivered a benediction at Trump’s inauguration, and who stood beside the president…
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