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The Rabbinic Student With a Plan To Solve Chicago’s Gun Violence Problem
Tamar Manasseh likely won’t be ordained as a rabbi until next year, but she already has her congregation: a street corner in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, where she has worked out her own solution to the city’s gun violence problem. Every afternoon during the Chicago Public Schools summer vacation, Manasseh and what…
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Judy Rapfogel, Sheldon Silver’s Ex-Chief of Staff, Lands Job With Jared Kushner’s Company
The former chief of staff of disgraced New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver has a new job at Jared Kushner’s firm, the Daily News reported this morning. Judy Rapfogel has had close relationships with two New York power brokers who took spectacular falls in recent years. Her longtime boss, Silver, was convicted of federal…
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Free Speech Advocates Warn that Anti-Semitism Bill Could Make Activism a Civil Rights Violation
After pro-Palestinian student activists set up mock West Bank checkpoints on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley in 2012, Jewish groups filed a civil rights complaint with the federal government. Jewish organizations charged that the mock checkpoints, meant as a protest against the Israeli government, combined with other incidents to create a hostile…
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What’s Next for Haim Saban, the Democrats’ Top Pro-Israel Donor After Election Loss?
“I used to have a standing as a cartoon schlepper, now I’m only a former cartoon schlepper.” This is how media mogul Haim Saban chose to describe himself when interviewing Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday afternoon. Needless to say, the self-deprecating description has little to do with reality. The Israeli-American billionaire is one of…
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Inside the Insular World of Israeli Jews Who Became Jehovah’s Witnesses
Yarden Zalimansky is only 25, but comports himself like a staid older citizen. He’s been married for a few years, and wears a white shirt, tie and dark slacks for our meeting; he has a tablet opened to a Bible app and speaks in a deeply serious tone of voice. Until age 19, he styled…
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On Social Media, Readers Slam Forward for Ivanka Kugel Post
The Forward is getting slammed on social media for posting a story about Ivanka Trump’s kugel. On the Facebook group Pantsuit Nation NYC, a poster referred to the article as a “steaming pile of you know what.” “Honestly, shame on the Forward,” one commenter wrote. “It’s offensive in principle,” another wrote. Readers argued that the…
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Ivanka Trump Sparks #Kugelgate by Grabbing Jamie Geller’s Broccoli Recipe
A recipe for broccoli kugel that Ivanka Trump claimed was her own “family favorite” is actually a word-for-word copy of a recipe by a well-known Jewish cookbook author. The recipe that the future first daughter presented as her own, posted in May on her website, IvankaTrump.com, is virtually identical to a recipe in a 2011…
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British Jewish Student Activist Called a ‘Disgusting Kapo’ by Facebook Harassers
A candidate for president of the U.K.’s largest Jewish student organization is the target of social media harassment for his pro-Palestinian activism, the London Jewish Chronicle reported. Facebook users have called Eran Cohen, a leading candidate to run the Union of Jewish Students, a “disgusting Kapo” and a “self-hating Jew,” according to the paper. Cohen,…
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How Many L’s Does ‘Lincoln’ Have — in Hebrew?
Should “Lincoln” have two L’s in Hebrew? Some of the Jewish world’s top scholars convened at a Jerusalem conference to discuss Abraham Lincoln — and that was one of the topics of conversation at the event. During the conversation, held to mark the publication of a Hebrew translation of Jonathan Sarna’s “Lincoln and the Jews”…
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Cops Nab Brooklyn Hasidic Synagogue Coffee Room Crook
Police arrested a Brooklyn man for allegedly swiping a moneybox from a synagogue coffee room in Boro Park, Hamodia reported. Surveillance cameras at the synagogue of the Belz Hasidic sect caught a man on Sunday sneaking into a room where coffee is available for community members, and taking cash from the box where drinkers leave…
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ADL Says Keith Ellison’s Taped Comments on Israel ‘Disqualify’ Him From Democratic Post
A new tape in which Keith Ellison implies that Israel controls America’s policy toward the Middle East has cost the Minnesota congressman support of the Anti-Defamation League, but did not change the position of his top political supporter, Senator Chuck Schumer. In the recording, which only 35 seconds of which were published, the Minneapolis congressman,…
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