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Not Everyone Thinks Dan Goldstein Was Wrong To Confront Ivanka Trump on JetBlue Flight
The Brooklyn lawyer who confronted soon-to-be first daughter Ivanka Trump has plenty of pro-Donald Trump enemies online now — but he also has defenders. “Ivanka is no innocent bystander,” Aaron Chandler, a member of a health care reform advocacy group, wrote on Facebook. “She’s now the leader—or co-leader—of the Trump businesses, and in that role,…
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Is Fraud Arrest of Hasidic Fixer Sign of Probe Into Wider Scandal?
The Satmar political activist whom federal agents arrested Thursday on food stamp fraud charges had a side gig as a political fixer for rich Hasidim, the Forward has learned. Isaac Sofer, who managed government relations for a Satmar yeshiva system, used his political connections to help wealthy members of the Hasidic community, according to a…
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Jewish Family Flees Town After Being Blamed for ‘A Christmas Carol’ Feud
A Jewish family had to flee their hometown in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, after conservative news outlets suggested they were to blame for shutting down their local school’s production of “A Christmas Carol.” The family, which said it only asked that their child be excused from performing in the play, got spooked after the news broke…
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Pro-Trump Trolls Target ‘Infamous’ Dan Goldstein After JetBlue Face-Off With Ivanka
Just hours after a Brooklyn lawyer confronted Ivanka Trump on a JetBlue flight, online supporters rallied around the future first daughter — and vowed to make the man accused of harassing her “infamous.” “The 2 men who verbally assaulted Ivanka Trump both live in Brooklyn. Make them infamous!” a user with the name Yekaterina Edrich…
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Meet Dan Goldstein, the Jewish Lawyer Who Faced Off With Ivanka Trump on JetBlue Flight
'They ruin the country and now they ruin our flight'
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Satmar Hasidic Activist Isaac Sofer Arrested for Food Stamp Fraud
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested prominent Brooklyn Satmar community activist Isaac Sofer on Thursday morning on charges that he lied in order to obtain food stamps. Updated, 3:00 P.M. Sofer manages government relations for the Central United Talmudical Academy, the Williamsburg yeshiva system that serves followers of the politically connected Satmar Grand Rabbi Aron…
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Orthodox Man Pelted With Ice, Called ‘South Side Jew’ in Brooklyn Attack
An Orthodox man walking to his car in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn was on the receiving end of New York’s post-election hate crime wave, as teens pelted him with ice and shouted at “South Side Jew” at him. “Two kids, they were DNAInfo. “I don’t know what that means.” The epithet might have been…
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Undeterred by Berlin Attack, Jews and Muslims in Chicago March for Syrian Refugees
About 50 Jews and Muslims demonstrated in front of Chicago’s Trump Tower Wednesday evening to demand that Governor Bruce Rauner reverse his position against allowing Syrian refugees into the state of Illinois. “East Aleppo is about to fall,” said Eli Massey of Jewish Voice for Peace, one of the march’s sponsors. “It’s important for Illinois…
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Inventor of ‘Alt-Right’ Defends Mom as His Followers Target Jews in Hometown
Amid a campaign by neo-Nazis to harass Jewish residents of a small Montana town, white nationalist and “alt-right” figurehead Richard Spencer is rallying to his mother’s side after she said she was under pressure to sell a building she owns there. “They are trying to punish me by punishing my mother,” Spencer said in an…
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Has Matzoball Gone Too Far With Sexist Ads Drenched in Jewish Stereotypes?
“I’m just a Jew, a lonely Jew on Christmas,” sang Kyle, the Jewish character in “South Park,” and for the last 30 years, thousands of young American Jews have searched for love at Matzoball, the glitzy singles party line that takes place in cities across the U.S. on Christmas Eve. From a single event in…
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WATCH: Trump Says Berlin Attack Proves He’s ‘100% Correct’ on Muslim Registry
President-elect Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday that a terrorist attack in Berlin earlier that week proved him right on his instincts to constrain Muslim immigration. “You know my plans,” he told the press when asked about a possible registry or ban, outside his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, “All along, I’ve been proven to be…
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