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After Fidel Castro’s Death, Can Cuba’s Resilient Jews Survive — or Even Thrive?
Fidel Castro has died at age 90. The former Cuban strongman was nothing if not a controversial figure — a socialist hero to some, a heartless dictator to many others. His relationship to the island’s small Jewish community — now just 1,500, down from a peak of 15,000 — was also far from clear-cut. On…
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When the Forward Journeyed to Fast-Changing Cuba in Search of Its Lost Jews
Fidel Castro died Saturday at age 90. The former Cuban strongman was nothing if not a controversial figure — a socialist hero to some, a heartless dictator to many others. His relationship to the island’s small Jewish community — now just 1,500, down from a peak of 15,000 — was also far from clear-cut. On…
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Alan Gross Says ‘History Will Never Absolve’ Fidel Castro — Hails New Era for Cuba
Alan Gross tweeted that history would judge Fidel Castro harshly but said he hoped that Cubans would push for a new age of freedom after his death. The Jewish aid worker, who spent years in a Cuban prison after being accused of “acts against the independence or territorial integrity of the state,” said “history will…
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That Time Fidel Castro Spoke of Jewish Suffering — and Wound Up Embarrassing Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu found himself in a pickle in 2010 when, after he expressed his appreciation for remarks by Cuba’s former leader Fidel Castro, who passed away Saturday, he inspired the anger of some in the U.S. and was forced to apologize. Speaking to The Atlantic, Castro told Jeffery Goldberg at the time that…
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Did CNN Make Alt-Right Normal With ‘Are Jews Human’ Banner — or Warn of Dangerous Reality?
Critics reacted on Monday night after CNN displayed an on-air headline seen as pandering to white nationalists and supremacists, stirring concern that the “alt-right” could be mainstreamed or normalized. “Alt-right founder questions whether Jews are human,” the text read, while anchor Jim Sciutto discussed with two guests a Washington, D.C. ‘alt-right’ conference at which one…
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4 Far-Right Figures Who Helped Trump Win
Donald Trump’s presidential win this month was buoyed by a rising tide of the political far-right. His truimph was celebrated by high-profile anti-globalist conspiracists and white nationalists, who saw in Trump a type of savior — someone who would save their country from threatening forces. Of course, voters chose Trump for a range of reasons…
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Who is ‘Alt-Right’ Figurehead Richard Spencer?
Before Donald Trump’s rise, they were relegated to shadowy blogs or the far corners of Reddit and Twitter, where they would lament the decline of Western civilization, bemoan the Jewish control of the media and dream of building a pure “white ethno state.” Now, the white nationalist movement known as the “alt-right” holds conferences in…
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WATCH: Tearful Father of Injured Jewish Standing Rock Protester
A police concussion grenade tore off much of the arm of 21-year-old Jewish activist Sophia Wilansky at the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline, activists. “There’s no words to be a parent and look at your kid, look at her arm that’s not there,” said Wilansky’s father, Wayne Wilansky, struggling to speak through his tears…
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‘Grenade’ Tears Limb Off Jewish 21-Year-Old at Standing Rock Protest
A police concussion grenade tore off much of the arm of a 21-year-old Jewish woman at the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, activists say. Sophia Wilansky was evacuated to Minneapolis, where she is undergoing rounds of surgery. It’s not clear whether she will lose her hand. “There’s no…
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Jewish Williamsburg Latest Target of Swastika Graffiti
The country’s post-election hate crime wave has now hit Williamsburg, where residents at the Independence Towers in the southern part of the Brooklyn neighborhood discovered swastikas and the slogans “KKK” and “Trump” graffitied on the stairwell Friday. “Such messages are extremely painful and when dismissed and ignored, it can escalate into physical attacks, God forbid,”…
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In His Office, Good Jewish Boy Jared Kushner Reads the Sages
Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser, keeps a pretty Jewish office, according to an exclusive Forbes profile of President-elect Donald Trump’s son-in-law. Kushner’s office is a spartan affair, empty of much decoration, except for framed covers of the New York Observer (the weekly paper that he owns) and signs of his Orthodox Jewish…
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