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Meet Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s Finance Maven and Treasury Secretary
Three weeks after his victory, President-elect Donald Trump has named many of his top advisers, drawing heavily from the small group of aides and admirers who surrounded him during his campaign. Steve Mnuchin, his pick to lead the Treasury Department, fits that bill, having served as the candidate’s finance chair and long entertained personal and…
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Trump’s Muslim Ban Has an Advocate in Attorney General Pick Jeff Sessions
Donald Trump on has announced his pick for attorney general: Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, one of the most conservative U.S. lawmakers and an early supporter of the president-elect’s proposal on banning Muslims entering the country. In a November 18 statement, Trump called Sessions a “world-class legal mind” who is “admired by legal scholars and virtually…
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Huffington Post: How It’s ‘Absolutely’ Possible For Steve Bannon To Be Pro-Israel And Anti-Semitic
It is “absolutely” possible for Steve Bannon to be pro-Israel and anti-Semitic at the same time, concluded a Huffington Post article about the ex-Breitbart chief who’s now President-elect Donald Trump’s chief strategist. Several Jewish organizations strongly criticized Bannon’s appointment, announced Nov. 13, on the grounds that he said he had made Breitbart into an online…
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EXPLAINED: Will Trump Create a Muslim Registry?
President-elect Donald Trump’s victory has worried numerous minority groups, but perhaps none more than American Muslims. In the run-up to his January inauguration, many have fretted that the United States’ new leader might try to force Muslims to register with the government for monitoring purposes. Why is that? Is it legal? What are Jews doing…
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EXCLUSIVE: That Time Steve Bannon Tried to Arrange a Trump Visit to the Golan Heights
After a warm impromptu welcome from Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer, Steve Bannon may have found another Israeli defender. Moti Kahana, an Israeli-American businessman who has spent the past five years working on humanitarian relief for Syrian refugees, is willing to vouch for the former Breitbart chief, who, according to Kahana, not only…
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Ottawa Synagogue Hit by Swastikas in City’s Second Anti-Semitic Incident This Week
For the second time in a week, anti-Semitic defacement has hit Ottawa, after a Modern Orthodox synagogue was tagged with swastikas, according to the Thursday story from the Canadian Broadcasting Company. “I think that this is far more than just regular graffiti vandalism,” Rabbi Idan Scher, spiritual leader of the Machzikei Hadas Modern Orthodox synagogue….
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Did Trump’s Attorney Michael Cohen Care If Megyn Kelly Got Killed?
Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen has a reputation for being a dogged defender of his boss, refusing even to acknowledge that Trump’s support among African-Americans was weak. Indeed, according to Slate he got too rabid for Fox News, which had to ask him to tone down his attacks on anchor Megyn Kelly, who faced death…
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Ruth Baron Ziff, the Ad Maven Behind the Charmin TP Squeeze, Dies at 92
Ruth Baron Ziff, a real-life Peggy Olson who made it in the “Mad Men” era of advertising, died last Saturday at the age of 92, according to The New York Times. Those of a certain age should remember her — she created the Mr. Whipple campaign for Charmin toilet paper, familiar to anyone who watched…
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Jewish Legislator Finds Swastika in Manhattan Apartment Building
Jew hatred hit home Wednesday night for New York State Senator Brad Hoylman, who found a swastika carved into a wall in his apartment building and posted it to Twitter. Swastika found in my apartment building this evening in Greenwich Village. Anti-Semite named to #Trump White House post. Connect the dots. pic.twitter.com/3OlD8hewyF — Senator Brad…
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With Bannon on the Bill, Zionist Gala Becomes Flashpoint
Steve Bannon, the controversial hard-right media provocateur and newly appointed chief strategist to President-elect Donald Trump, is set to attend the Zionist Organization of America’s annual dinner in Manhattan on Sunday — and his appearance is setting off a political firestorm in the Jewish communal world. The Anti-Defamation League has called Bannon “hostile to core…
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Is ‘Notorious’ Anti-Muslim Conspiracy Theorist Frank Gaffney Joining Team Trump?
Frank Gaffney, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center calls “one of America’s most notorious Islamophobes” is reportedly being eyed for a spot on Donald Trump’s transition team on national security issues. Gaffney is a former Reagan administration official and the founder of the Center for Security Policy, an anti-Muslim think-tank. In a March 2016 profile…
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