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Julian Edelman’s Super Catch, Sandy Koufax’s Perfect Game and 3 Greatest Jewish Sports Moments
Julian Edelman defied physics with his catch during the fourth quarter of Super Bowl LI on Sunday night. The New England Patriots ended up winning 34-28 in overtime. Still can’t get over Julian Edelman’s incredible clutch catch at the #SuperBowlpic.twitter.com/Kcb3vJKqrY — BigSport (@BigSportGB) February 6, 2017 Patriots quarterback Tom Brady described the catch saying, “I…
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‘Lost Tribe’ Separatists In Nigeria Celebrate Trump’s Victory
On the weekend of President Trump’s inauguration, hundreds took to the street to march. They blocked traffic, sang songs and danced. In the crowd, scores of them wore yarmulkes and tallitot as they waved Israeli flags. This was not a scene from a major American city — where supporters and protestors similarly thronged the streets….
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READ: Kindertransport Holocaust Survivors Make Impassioned Plea Against Trump’s Muslim Ban
In the months before the start of World War II, 10,000 mostly Jewish children were saved on a “Kindertransport” or children’s transport. Now these “children” are making their voices heard to fight for current refugees hoping to come to America. Ilse Melamid was 11 years old when she saw her family for the last time….
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Is Trump Reversing on Settlements and Iran?
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Israeli settlements are no big problem. Wait — maybe they are, after all. The Iran deal is trash. No, the deal is here to stay, despite being “weak.” On Thursday, the White House pronounced on Israel’s announced settlement expansion that it “may not help” peace, and it put Iran “on notice” for…
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White House Blocked State Department’s Holocaust Statement That Mentioned Jews
(JTA) — The State Department crafted a statement for International Holocaust Remembrance Day that explicitly mentioned the Jewish victims of the Nazis, but President Donald Trump’s White House team reportedly blocked its release. An unnamed Trump official said the incident was purely the product of miscommunication, Politico reported Thursday. The State Department’s Office of the…
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Woman Finds Swastika on Her Door, Fights Back With Dumbledore
A woman in Michigan came home last week to find a swastika painted on her door. Instead of despairing, she decided to fight back – with love and magic lifted from the pages of a beloved Harry Potter book. Last week, Erin Zettle posted a public message on Facebook describing the hateful attack. “There was…
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Record High Number of Anti-Semitic Acts in England
Anti-Semitic activity reached a record high in 2016, reports the Community Security Trust (CST), a British charity that protects Jews from anti-Semitism. It has documented the number of anti-Semitic incidents in England since 1984 but 2016, with 1,309 reported incidents, saw a 36% spike from 2015 and broke the record for the most Jewish hate…
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Ivanka Trump Hasn’t Stepped Down as Promised, Investigation Finds
Just like her father, Ivanka Trump pledged to resign from all her positions in the family business. But so far, she hasn’t filed the paperwork, a ProPublica investigation found. “I will take a formal leave of absence from The Trump Organization and my eponymous apparel and accessories brand,” Ivanka Trump wrote in a Facebook post…
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EXPLAINED: The Disturbing Back Story Behind Donald Trump’s Jew-Free Holocaust Statement
Additional information about the White House’s Holocaust Remembrance Day statement continues to dribble out more than a week after the message, which omitted any mention of the event’s Jewish victims, was delivered by President Donald Trump. At the time, Jewish groups across the political spectrum condemned the statement, but nobody knew its backstory. Now, we…
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If Trump Kills the Johnson Amendment, Chaos Could Follow for Charities
President Donald Trump’s pledge to “totally destroy the Johnson Amendment” could wreak legal havoc among not-for-profits, and threaten the entire charity industry, experts tell the Forward. “I think it will do nothing good,” said Daniel Kurtz, former head of the Charities Bureau at the Office of the New York State Attorney General and currently a…
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Trump Takes Prostate Meds for Hair Growth, and More From the First Doctor
Harold Bornstein, President Donald Trump’s physician since the 1980s, revealed more about his presidential patient than a doctor normally would in his recent interview with the New York Times: Trump takes finasteride, a prostate medication, for hair growth promotion, Bornstein revealed. Bornstein, who apparently also uses the drug for hair growth, and attested that it…
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