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Polls Finds Almost Half of Jewish Israelis Think Left Is Traitorous Fifth Column
Almost half of Israel’s Jews think the country’s political left isn’t patriotic, finds the latest poll of the Israel Democracy Institute’s Peace Index, in a survey that shows a public continuing to hold attitudes that favor the current right-wing government. According to the poll, 48% of Israeli Jews don’t believe leftists are loyal to the…
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Swastika and ‘Praise Trump’ Graffiti Found on Manhattan Phone Booth
The country’s post-election hate crime wave struck New York once more on Sunday, after the discovery of swastikas and the phrase “Praise Trump” graffitied onto a phone booth located at West 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, according to a Monday report in DNAInfo. A woman notified police of the vandalism, when she noticed the vandalism…
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Al Gore: Ivanka Trump Is ‘Very Concerned’ About Climate Change
Former Vice President Al Gore had kind words on Monday night for Ivanka Trump, following his meeting earlier with her and President-elect Donald Trump to discuss climate change. “It’s no secret that Ivanka Trump is very committed to having a climate policy that makes sense for our country and for our world and that was…
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Could Hebrew Be the World’s Oldest Alphabet?
The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs found at a number of Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, according to a new analysis. According to the new study by the Wilfrid Laurier University archaeologist Douglas Petrovich, Israelites in Egypt took 22 ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and created an early Hebrew alphabet around 3,800…
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How Abe (Foxman) Bonded With Rupert (Murdoch) — at a $8,850-a-Week California Spa
Former Anti-Defamation League leader Abraham Foxman is viewed by many as a Jewish leader with a unique common man’s touch. But that has not hindered his twice-yearly visits, over two decades, to the exclusive Golden Door, a secluded spa on 600 acres of hills, meadows and gardens 35 miles north of San Diego, from where…
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Abe Foxman: Anti-Semitism ‘Sewer Covers Are Off’ — But I’m Optimistic on Trump
“The sun is still shining,” Abe Foxman boomed over the phone from Southern California, where it was “men’s week” at the Golden Door spa in San Marcos, about 35 miles north of San Diego. It was an overcast afternoon in New York. But Foxman was paying one of his twice yearly visits last week to…
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Why Is a Major Jewish Group Hosting a Hanukkah Party With Azerbaijan?
Hold the latkes, leaders of the Workmen’s Circle said this week. The liberal Jewish group won’t be attending a Hanukkah party hosted by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, citing the event’s location at Donald Trump’s Washington hotel and its co-sponsorship by the country of Azerbaijan. “As a Jewish organization, we cannot…
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The Secret Jewish History of Kwanzaa
Fifty years ago, at the inaugural celebration of Kwanzaa, 60 black Americans gathered in a California living room to celebrate their distant African past. It was 1966. They wore dashikis and hand-woven headwear. A troupe of musicians played drums. Men and women bowed to each other and poured libations to the ancestors. Later, someone switched…
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Jack Rudin, Patriarch of Real Estate Family, Dies at 92
Jack Rudin, patriarch of one of the wealthiest Jewish families in the United States and a major real estate developer, died Sunday at 92. Rudin’s firm, Rudin Management Company, owns major residential and commercial properties across New York City. Begun by Rudin’s grandfather in 1905, the family real estate enterprise has built one of the…
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Israeli Sledder Follows His North Star to the Arctic
There’s rarely snow in Israel. But if an outdoorsman from the West Bank settlement of Efrat gets his wish, he will become the first of his countrymen to participate in a polar sledding competition, traveling hundreds of miles between Norway and Sweden next April. “I’ve always had a penchant for adventure and crazy ideas,” Erik…
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Does Michael Flynn Have an Anti-Semitism Problem on Twitter?
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s pick to head the National Security Administration, has landed in the middle of a complex controversy including his son, a penchant for spreading fake news — and anti-Semitism on Twitter. Flynn has come under attack for retweeting a fake news item that appeared to be related to the so-called…
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