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Sofiya Romm’s Journey From Russia to a Barely Findable American Grave
The grave of Sofiya Romm, a doctor who immigrated to the United States from Moscow, is hard to find in Ahavath Achim Anshe Sfard, the local Jewish cemetery here. On a recent afternoon in November, only Romm’s first name was visible. The rest of the inscription was under a pile of brown autumn leaves. You…
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Anger Boils Over as Hillary Clinton Aides Accuse Donald Trump of Using Anti-Semitic ‘Dog Whistles’
Hillary Clinton campaign aides angrily accused their counterparts from Donald Trump’s team of fanning racism and using anti-Semitic “dog whistles” to win the presidential election. In a remarkable confrontation at Harvard University, the architects of Clinton’s losing campaign traded bitter barbs with Team Trump, the Washington Post reported. Joel Benenson, one of Clinton’s to strategist,…
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WATCH: At Western Wall, One Woman Puts Another in a Chokehold
The women’s section of Jerusalem’s Western Wall, one of Judaism’s holiest sites, looked a bit like a rugby pitch the morning of December 1 as devout women collapsed into a scrum of long skirts, prayer shawls and repeated shrieks of “Call the police, now!” Some of the women, who call themselves “Women of the Wall”…
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Even Gravestones Become Luxuries for Poor as Jewish Burial Groups Cut Back
We often hear stories about how hard life was for Jews in Russia back in the day. Still, after they passed away, even poor Jews in the Russian Empire got to have gravestones. If you travel around Ukraine and Poland these days, you’ll stumble upon Jewish cemeteries in almost every village where Jews used to…
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Will Ivanka Trump Be the White House Voice of Reason on Climate Change?
Ivanka Trump may advocate for action on climate change in her new role as first daughter, Politico reported today, citing a “source close to her.” Trump, who is Jewish, is considering ways to speak out on climate change, according to Politico. That could put her in conflict with her father, the president-elect, who has consistently…
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Family of Trump’s Treasury Secretary Pick Profited in Madoff Scheme
The family of Donald Trump’s new nominee for Secretary of the Treasury was among the lucky few that walked away from Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme with millions in alleged profits. Stephen Mnuchin and his brother inherited their mother’s account in Madoff’s investment fund in 2005, three years before the scheme imploded, Bloomberg reported in May….
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Jared Kushner, Peacemaker? Israeli Official Says Bring Him On
Could a Jewish New York real estate guy with precisely zero foreign policy experience break the Mideast peace logjam? If his father in law is called Donald Trump, Israeli officials say: “why not?” A top Israeli diplomat said Jared Kushner would be a welcome partner if he becomes a peace mediator. “We welcome him,” Deputy…
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When Joy Turned to Terror for Jews in Arab Lands on Day That Led to Israel’s Founding
Shimon Sasson, 84, of Tel Aviv, was 15 when the riots broke out in the port city of Aden. It happened just after November 29, 1947, the date on which the United Nations approved the partition plan for Palestine, paving the way for the founding of the State of Israel. “I heard the report on…
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Brooklyn Jewish Landlords Plead Guilty to Driving Out Rent-Stabilized Tenants
Two Orthodox Jewish landlords pled guilty in a Brooklyn courtroom on Tuesday to destroying apartments in buildings they owned in order to drive out rent-stabilized tenants. The landlords, Joel and Amrom Israel, will pay $348,000 to their former tenants, who prosecutors say came home to find their Brooklyn apartments damaged by the brothers. The brothers…
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Breitbart’s Man in Israel Says Jewish State Needs More Right Wing Media — Not Less
(JTA) — Stephen Bannon recently called Breitbart News “the most pro-Israel site in the United States of America.” That will not change with Bannon leaving the far-right news website for the White House, according to Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief. Saying he shares a worldview with Bannon, President-elect Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist, Aaron Klein…
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Saved by the Kindertransport: Meet Two Inspiring Holocaust Survivors
Seventy-eight years ago this week, on December 2, 1938, the first Kindertransport left Germany. In the following months over 10,000 mostly Jewish children were saved from Nazi-occupied territories, because their parents were willing to separate from them. In England they were placed in foster families, schools and shelters. British authorities agreed to grant visas; private…
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