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How Gary Cohn Became The Hated Jewish ‘Globalist’ In Trump’s Cabinet
In the palace intrigue rattling Donald Trump’s White House, Gary Cohn is the insider the Trump diehards love to hate. It’s a role to which he’s particularly-well suited: Cohn is the former second-in-command at Goldman Sachs, the world-spanning global financial firm that Trump used as a stand-in for everything he was running against during his…
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J.B. Pritzker Makes His Move To Become Illinois Governor
As of last week, there are now two Jews and three billionaires in the 2018 Illinois governor’s race. Following several months of speculation local business mogul J.B. Pritzker officially thrown his hat into the ring on April 6. The move came two weeks after he formed an exploratory committee with $200,000 of his own money,…
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Poet Kevin Coval’s ‘A People’s History of Chicago’ Hits Rahm Emanuel Hard, In Verse
At an early Passover seder last week at the City Winery, the poet Kevin Coval was, to the surprise of no one, assigned the Hagaddah reading of the Rebellious Child, an updating of the old-school Wicked Son. It’s been Coval’s nature to question all forms of established dogma, going back to his Hebrew school days…
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5 Reasons France’s National Front Isn’t Done With Anti-Semitism
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen drew the ire of Israel and Jewish groups over the weekend when she said that her country was not responsible for the Vel d’Hiv roundup of July 1942, a wartime raid in which French police arrested 13,152 Jews in Paris. “If anyone is responsible, then it is those in…
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Evangelicals Lead The Call To Cut Palestinian Aid, Despite Israel’s Reservations
A piece of anti-terror legislation in Congress has turned into a test for pro-Israel policy in the Trump era. The Taylor Force Act, a bill named after a U.S. citizen murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in Jaffa, would cut all American funding to the Palestinian Authority because of its longstanding practice of providing financial stipends…
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Sean Spicer Admits ‘Inappropriate’ To Say Hitler Was Better Than Syria’s Assad
White House spokesman Sean Spicer triggered an uproar on Tuesday by saying Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons. He apologized after his comments drew immediate criticism on social media and elsewhere for overlooking the fact that millions of Jews were killed in Nazi gas chambers. Spicer made the assertion at a daily news briefing,…
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Mounting Criticism Of Zionist Leader Who Said ‘Blacks Are Much Better Dancers’
The president of the Zionist Organization of America is facing a mounting wave of criticism after telling the Forward that it is “simply a fact” that “blacks are much better dancers,” and that “most people know” that Asians “are smarter on average than other people in America.” ZOA president Mort Klein made the remarks in…
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Sean Spicer Faces Resignation Calls For Claiming Hitler Was Better Than Assad
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer apologized for saying Adolf Hitler didn’t resort to using chemical weapons like Syria’s president, after an outpouring of criticism from politicians and Jewish groups on Tuesday, including calls for his removal from his position. Spicer made the remarks during a daily press briefing while addressing the chemical attack and…
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Jewish Leader Says ‘Blacks Are Much Better Dancers’
Mort Klein, president of a major Jewish pro-Israel group, berated a Forward reporter who called to ask about a joke Klein had made about black people being good dancers in a national magazine story. “What are you, stupid? What are you, stupid?” Klein said. “Each different peoples have different talents that everyone knows. And everyone…
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Hero Firefighter Who Rescued Brooklyn Man Honored At First FDNY Seder
With matzo and grape juice, scores of New York City firefighters gathered to celebrate the department’s first-ever Passover Seder — and honor a Jewish hero. Andrew Scharf, 29, was honored for his daring March 5 rescue of Ubeaka McKinney, whom he pulled from the third story of his burning apartment complex in the Brownsville section…
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A Grassroots Success Story – How A Small Group of Atlanta Women Stood Up To Anti-Semitism
On the morning of Feb. 21, a 46-year-old wife and mother in suburban Atlanta awoke and decided that she could not stay silent amid a surge the recent in anti-Semitic activity, from bomb threats, toppled gravestones and synagogue vandalism to abhorrent speech online and on campus. By the morning of March 30, Lauren Menis –…
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