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Can Election Recount Redeem Jill Stein? Democrats Are Skeptical.
Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate, has a fondness for conspiracy theories about subjects ranging from unemployment data to vaccines. Likewise, she thinks the 2016 elections were rigged, and that at least three states need recounts. But this time, her crusade is gaining traction, with millions of dollars pouring in and with national attention…
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What the ‘Alt-Right’ Really Wants From Their Hero Donald Trump
The “alt-right” has catapulted to the spotlight in the wake of Donald Trump’s win. The decentralized movement, led largely by white nationalists like Richard Spencer, has championed Trump from the early days of his campaign, seeing in him a figure who would allow their dreams of building a “white ethno-state” go mainstream. Now that Trump…
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WATCH: Austrian Holocaust Survivor Pleads for Vote Against Far-Right Presidential Candidate
An octogenarian Holocaust survivor made an emotional video plea urging fellow citizens to vote against Norbert Hofer, a far-right candidate in Austria’s presidential election who stands a good chance of winning power this December. “When they made the Jews clean the streets, the people of Vienna stood there, men and women, and said ‘Look at…
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Tila Tequila’s Nazi-Saluting Friend is Jewish — and Devoted to the ‘Alt-Right’
Last week a shocking photo of former reality TV star Tila Tequila doing a Nazi salute with two men went viral. The three were standing inside a gathering of the “alt-right,” the white nationalist movement which has rallied around president-elect Donald Trump. The salute — known to some as a Nazi salute, to other’s as…
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Shmuley Boteach Shares 50th Birthday With Fidel Castro Burial — Is That a Bad Thing?
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is known for his pro-Israel activism, his support of president-elect Donald Trump, and his books about sex in the Orthodox world. But recently he found himself making a small scene about a completely different issue – the burial of Fidel Castro. My 50th birthday party in NYC this Sunday 4 December same…
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The Mexican Jew Who Helped Negotiate NAFTA Remains Proud of It. Is He Just An Elitist?
For the so-called “alt-right,” Jaime Zabludovsky Kuper may seem like a ready-made stereotype. A scion of one of Mexico’s most prominent Jewish families, Zabludovsky is a longtime member of Mexico’s elite. Holder of a doctorate in economics from Yale University, he is a former under secretary for international trade negotiations and a former senior economist…
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The Jew Who Gave Fidel Castro a Boat — and Helped Launch a Revolution
Encased in a glass box on one of the main plazas in old Havana is a small and ordinary fishing boat called “El Granma.” Sixty years ago a young group of socialist militants led by Fidel Castro crossed the Gulf of Mexico on it, igniting a revolution that would affect the region for decades to…
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That Time Jared Kushner’s Father Gave Bill Clinton a Shofar
Jared Kushner was 16 years old when President Bill Clinton paid a visit to the New Jersey offices of his father’s corporation. It wasn’t Kushner’s first encounter with high-powered Washington players, even at this young age. His father, Charles, was a major political donor and as such, courtesy visits such as this were not uncommon….
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Charities Lean More on Donations From the Wealthiest — Jewish Groups Included
Giving in the United States is more than ever a rich person’s sport, finds a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies. And Jewish charities aren’t immune to the trend, according to nonprofit consultant and fundraiser Avrum Lapin. “The growth of inequality is mirrored in philanthropy,” one of the report’s authors, Chuck Collins, told…
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Meet the American Firefighters Battling Israel’s Mother of All Wildfires
(JTA) — Call them Israel’s American volunteer fire brigade. Dozens of firefighters from across the United States put their lives on hold – leaving behind jobs and families – to help subdue the wildfires that swept Israel over the past week. While they all share a love of Israel, only a handful of them are…
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FEGS Will Pay $3.1M to Workers Left in Lurch by Collapse
The shuttered Jewish social service agency FEGS has agreed to pay $3.1 million to the union workers it left in the lurch when it collapsed in 2014. The agreement, filed the day before Thanksgiving, settles a number of claims that the union that represented 700 FEGS’s workers had brought against the organization. A bankruptcy judge…
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