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Le Pen Beckons French Jews — And Some Respond
Back in February, the right-wing Jewish website Dreuz reported on an unprecedented meeting: The Confederation Of French Jews And Friends Of Israel, it disclosed, had recently met with Louis Alliot, the vice president of France’s National Front party, a far-right group long associated with Holocaust denial and historical sympathies for France’s wartime collaborationist regime with…
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Jon Ossoff Comes This Close To Stunning Trump — Runoff Looms
Democrat Jon Ossoff came within a hair’s breadth of dealing a major blow to President Trump on Tuesday night, leading a crowded field of almost a dozen Republicans but falling just short of winning a Georgia Congressional seat outright. With 185 of 210 precincts reporting, he held 48.3 percent of the vote – just shy…
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Judge Orders Auburn To Let ‘Alt-Right’ Leader Richard Spencer Speak
A federal judge has ordered Auburn University in Alabama to let white supremacist leader Richard Spencer speak on their campus on Tuesday night, days after the university cancelled his booked appearance due to safety concerns. The ruling was made by U.S. District Judge W. Keith Watkins just hours before Spencer’s scheduled appearance on campus, which…
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5 Things About Albert ‘Stud Muffin’ Einstein, On The Anniversary Of His Death
More than six decades after his death on this date in 1955, Albert Einstein continues to inspire generations of students in the sciences. But let don’t the mop of white hair and distinguished mustache fool you. Einstein was “a stud muffin theoretical physicist,” according to Geoffrey Rush, who stars at the man himself in the…
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For Neo-Nazis, Trump Quickly Falls From Hero To ‘Jewish Pawn’
Before Donald Trump began his political career, neo-Nazis and white nationalists were suspicious of the business tycoon from New York, some accusing him of associating too closely with Jews, maybe even being a “secret Jew” himself. But during the campaign he transformed, becoming an icon for white nationalists who saw him as a vehicle for…
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Bret Stephens Defends ‘Arab Mind’ Quote As NY Times Colleagues Push Back
The New York Times announced Friday that it had poached Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Bret Stephens away from The Wall Street Journal. But the hire was met with a rare public display of dissent from the Times’s own reporters, who criticized a Stephens column from 2016 calling anti-Semitism “the disease of the Arab mind.” Declan Walsh,…
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A ‘Jewish Coup’? That’s How ‘Alt-Right’ Explains Away Trump Flip-Flops And Bombings
President Trump’s Thursday bombing of Afghanistan, just a week after an airstrike on Syria, is again challenging his “alt-right” and white nationalist fans. Some of the far right-wingers see the moves as evidence of a full “Jewish coup” sweeping the White House — and are even portraying Trump himself as a sort of victim. “All…
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The Famed Jewish Doctor Who Survived The Titanic — Then Took His Own Life
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)of the ship’s sinking suggests hundreds of Jews were among the 1,517 victims of the disaster, from passengers in first class like the American businessman Benjamin Guggenheim, to poor Jewish immigrants who were traveling in third class. Kosher meals were served on board. But one of the saddest codas to the tragedy belongs…
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Sebastian Gorka Unleashes New Firestorm With Plan To Carve Up Libya
Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s top counter-terrorism adviser, is once again facing disdain from Middle East experts—this time over a reported plan he advanced to partition Libya. Shortly before Trump’s inauguration and Gorka’s own appointment as deputy assistant to the president, Gorka advocated cutting war-torn Libya into three separate countries and drew his outline for the…
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Rabbinical Student Urges Black-Jewish Unity At Chicago Seder
At a Passover Seder held on a street corner on the South Side of Chicago, a prominent black rabbinical student urged African-Americans and Jews in Chicago to come together to prevent gun violence. Tamar Manasseh called the April 11 event the “Seder of the Streets” and held it on a South Side street corner, where…
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British Woman, 20, Killed In Stabbing Attack In Jerusalem
A 20-year-old British woman was killed during a knife attack allegedly perpetrated by a Palestinian in Jerusalem. The woman was taken to hospital in critical condition following the incident Friday aboard the city’s light rail, Israel Radio reported. She was stabbed by a 57-year-old man from the Ras al Amud neighborhood in the city’s east,…
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