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Jewish Storm Builds Over David Friedman’s Appointment as Israel Ambassador
President-Elect Donald Trump’s decision to appoint David Friedman as his ambassador to Israel is brewing into a Jewish battle royale for supporters and detractors of the two-state solution. For the Jewish left, Friedman appointment has quickly emerged as a banner for rallying troops already concerned with the impact the Trump presidency will have on the…
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Fresh War Over Hasidic Bloomingburg Looms as Opponents of Hasidic Development Vow Fight
Bloomingburg is heading back to war. Officials in an upstate New York town are preparing new efforts to fight the construction of a Satmar Hasidic village after prosecutors indicted the project’s developer, Shalom Lamm, on charges that he conspired to rig local elections. Lamm has worked for years on a secret plan to build 5,000…
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Self-Styled Jewish Militant Sentenced to 20 Years for Mosque Stabbing
A Queens man who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for stabbing a Muslim is a self-styled Jewish extremist who said he left the Jewish Defense League at age 13 because “it was not militant enough.” Bernhard Laufer, 59, stabbed a man at a mosque in Flushing in 2012 and was convicted of second-degree…
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WATCH: ‘Alt-Right’ Owns up to Anti-Semitism
White supremacist Richard Spencer, who invented the term “alt-right,” tends to steer clear of explicit racism unless he’s directly addressing his followers. But that didn’t stop one of his fellow travelers from sounding off about Jews in an Atlantic documentary about Spencer released this week. “Two or three years ago, I finally came to understand…
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Melania Trump’s Diamond Merchant Dumping Mementoes of Troubled Adopted Son
After his adopted son was accused of helping cover up a grisly murder, diamond merchant to the stars Jeffrey Rackover is washing his hands clean of James Rackover. Jeffrey Rackover, who counts Melania Trump and Jennifer Lopez among his clients, was said to be throwing out James Rackover’s clothing and shredding his photos of the…
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Meet David Friedman, Bankruptcy Lawyer Turned Possible Israel Ambassador
President-elect Donald Trump chose David Friedman to be his ambassador to Israel on Thursday. He’s a unique choice for the role, breaking with a long held policy consensus in denouncing the two state solution and backing settlements. Here are five facts about him. 1. New Yorker Friedman grew up in Woodmere, New York as the…
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Standing With Muslims: Chicago Jews Grapple With Challenge on Eve of Trump Era
Amid the rising fears that minorities harbor about the coming Trump era, Jewish leaders here are fiercely debating: What is to be done? Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s personal appeal to Trump in a December 7 meeting to preserve the Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and give up his plans for large-scale deportations of immigrants…
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More Swastikas Found on Manhattan’s Upper West Side
The swastika sighted this week on 104th Street and Broadway in Manhattan was one of several hateful scrawlings in the neighborhood, according to local reports. A number of buildings and phone booths between 104th and 105th Streets on Broadway were tagged with swastikas, “KKK” and “Nazi,” DNAInfo reported. All the graffiti appeared to be done…
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What Does Developer’s Arrest Mean for the Future of Hasidic Bloomingburg?
Two weeks ago, it seemed like the Satmar Hasidim had won the fight for Bloomingburg. The tiny village 80 miles north of New York City had been the site of a raging battle between an Orthodox developer named Shalom Lamm and a group of stubborn locals for four years over Lamm’s plans to build homes…
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BREAKING: Shalom Lamm Charged in Bloomingburg Cash-for-Voters Scam
Federal prosecutors have charged Orthodox developer Shalom Lamm and two of his colleagues with conspiring to corrupt local elections in the upstate New York village of Bloomingburg by registering non-residents to vote there. This story is no longer being updated. Click here for the latest on the Bloomingburg indictments. According to an indictment filed in…
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BREAKING: FBI Arrests Bloomingburg Developer Shalom Lamm
Federal agents this morning arrested Shalom Lamm, the developer behind a controversial project to build hundreds of homes for Hasidic Jews in an upstate New York village. Update: Lamm has been indicted in cash-for-voters scam. This story is no longer being updated. Click here for the latest. Allan Ripp, a spokesperson for Lamm’s attorney, confirmed…
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