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Is Fight Against Donald Trump Sparking New Movement of #JewishResistance?
(Haaretz) — When 50 members of the grassroots protest group If Not Now arrived at UJA-Federation of New York in the late afternoon gloom last Monday, they were met by a scrum of police and security officers barring their entry into the building. Holding a banner bearing the IfNotNow logo and #JewishResistance, the young demonstrators…
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Meet Jason Chaffetz, the Mormon Congressman Who Converted From Judaism
After the head of the government’s ethics office, Walter M. Shaub Jr., expressed doubts about President-elect Donald Trump’s commitment to avoiding conflicts of interest, Trump received an assist from Rep. Jason Chaffetz, head of the House’s Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Chaffetz is threatening to investigate Shaub’s agency, the Government Ethics Monitor. Here are a…
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German Court: Synagogue Torching Was Israel Criticism, Not Anti-Semitism
A German regional court called the attempt to burn down a synagogue in the city of Wuppertal in 2014 a criticism of Israel and not an anti-Semitic attack. By doing so, the court affirmed a lower court’s ruling that had come to the same decision in 2015, the “Jüdische Allgemeine,” Germany’s largest Jewish newspaper, reported….
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B&H Photo Closing Brooklyn Warehouses Where Workers Unionized
The giant Hasidic-owned camera store B&H Photo Video is closing the Brooklyn warehouse where workers formed a union in 2015 amid stiff opposition from management, and where federal investigators allege Hispanic employees were forced to use separate bathrooms. In a statement on Thursday, B&H said it would move its fulfillment center from the Brooklyn Navy…
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In Chicago Theatre, The Play’s the Thing for Both Sides in Israel-Palestinian Conflict
Ken Kaissar was born in Ramat Gan, Israel, and grew up in a right-wing Jewish household in Indianapolis. His father fought in three Israeli wars—1956, 1967, and 1973—and growing up, Kaissar was told that Israel was in perpetual danger and that, as he put it, “the Arabs wanted to kill us and destroy us.” As…
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‘Angel of Death’ Dr. Josef Mengele Now Himself Object of Medical Study
The remains of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi leader who was known as the “Angel of Death” for his torturous experiments on prisoners, are now being used to teach medical students at a Brazilian university. Mengele died in Brazil decades after fleeing Auschwitz. For 30 years his cranium and his bones had been left untouched…
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Jewish Landlords Arrested in Dangerous Gas Meter Bribery Scam
Authorities in Brooklyn arrested dozens of people, including a number of Jewish landlords and property managers, in a dangerous scheme to install gas meters in buildings where the gas lines had not yet been inspected for safety. Gas company insiders allegedly took bribes from landlords unwilling to wait for the meters to be installed legally….
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Neo-Nazi Blames ‘Jewish Trickery’ — but Why Was His March Really Called Off?
Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin blames “Jewish trickery” after his armed neo-Nazi march against the Jews of Whitefish, Montana, failed to materialize. But there was no “Jewish plot” that derailed Anglin’s plans. The city of Whitefish says they would have processed his permit application for an armed march — if it had been submitted complete. What’s more,…
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The Secret Life of the Gay Jewish Immigrant Whose Company Sells Your Medical Information
We may think that what happens in our doctor’s office is confidential, but, in reality, our medical secrets fuel a multi-billion-dollar trade in patient information. The leading firm in this opaque data trade is QuintilesIMS, a company founded as IMS in 1954 by an enigmatic German immigrant named Ludwig Wolfgang Frohlich. Today, the company that…
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Steve Mnuchin Plans to Sell Assets as Treasury Secretary
Steve Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury Secretary, has announced that he will sell off some investments and quit a number of corporate board, if the Senate approves his nomination. According to a letter mailed to senators, Mnuchin has pledged to liquidate his interests in companies including Berkshire Hathaway, Citigroup, Microsoft and Verizon within…
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Meet Ike Perlmutter, Trump’s Comic Book Hero — and Marvel’s CEO
Between attacking CNN and BuzzFeed at his Wednesday press conference, President-elect Donald Trump found time to praise the chief executive of Marvel Comics, Ike Perlmutter, whom he said was an influential adviser on veterans’s affairs. Who’s this fellow, and why did Trump hail him as “one of the great men of business?” Here are five…
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