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Chicago and Cleveland Rabbis Place (Very Jewish) Wager on World Series
— Conservative rabbis in Cleveland and Chicago have placed a friendly wager on the World Series. The rabbi in the losing city will travel to the synagogue in the winning city to engage in a debate on the Jewish significance of baseball. Rabbi Stephen Weiss of B’nai Jeshurun Congregation in Pepper Pike, Ohio, a Cleveland…
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Huma Abedin Rebuked Haim Saban Over Tougher ‘Scrutiny’ of Muslims: Wikileaks
Hollywood billionaire and major Hillary Clinton donor Haim Saban was told that his views on screening Muslim refugees were “not consistent” with the Democratic presidential candidate’s position following an interview in which he advocated “more scrutiny” of Muslims after the 2015 Paris terror attacks. The email exchanges between Saban and vice chairwoman of the Clinton…
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The Jewish Education of Jessye Stein — on a South Dakota Indian Reservation
One day, Jessye Stein, a computer teacher on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, was trying to persuade a student to return to his Lakota language class when the young man suddenly posed an unexpected question. “He asked me where I come from, where my people come from and what my ancestral language…
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WATCH: Trump Backers Hurl Actual Nazi Slur at ‘Lying Press’
When Pat Buchanan ran for president more than two decades ago, attacking gays, feminists, liberals, single mothers in his famous “Culture War” speech, the late political humorist Molly Ivins joshed that the address sounded better “in the original German.” In this strange election season, her quip has traveled the distance from ribbing to reality. For…
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Donald Trump’s Favorite Female Evangelist Wears a Jewish Prayer Shawl — Just Like Him
High Holiday appeals for money are nothing new to North American synagogue-goers. But for sheer chutzpah, few could compare with the Yom Kippur video appeal from Paula White, Donald Trump’s most visible evangelical supporter. White stares into the camera, with cascading blond hair and Botox-swollen lips. She tells those on her ministry email list that…
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Anti-Semitic Graffiti Leaves University of Virginia Students ‘Horrified’
Jewish students at the University of Virginia were horrified this weekend after discovering graffiti at a nearby apartment complex. A large Star of David was painted, with the word “Juden” underneath it — German for “Jewry.” For students, the graffiti evoked Nazi imagery. “It’s direct Holocaust imagery and that’s what’s problematic about it,” third-year college…
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The Truth About Anti-Semitism on Campus — It’s Not All About Israel
Reports of anti-Semitic assaults rose dramatically in the past year, particularly on college campuses. And while there may be a tendency to view all critique of Israel as anti-Semitic, a new study finds that at three major universities, politics are not to blame. “The anti-Semitism that is felt on campus isn’t necessarily attached to Israel,…
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Divine Intersection: The Surprising Story of the Jews Who Became Sufi Muslims
At a burial shrine set in the rolling farmland of Pennsylvania, a group of Sufi devotees swayed in prayer, chanting the many names of God. The women, heads covered in loose shawls, sat on one side; the men, some clutching prayer beads, on the other. One woman, overcome with emotion, wept openly. At the center…
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PHOTOS: Inside the Life of the Jewish Sufis
In 1971 a mysterious Sufi mystic arrived in America from Sri Lanka to spread a message of religious and racial unity. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen was his name and he amassed a following — in a country reeling from the social, political and religious upheaval of the 1970s, his message resonated. All along, Bawa’s inner circle of…
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5 Jewish Sufis You Should Know
You’ve heard of Jewish Buddhists — “Jewbus” — and secular Jews. You likely know Jews who favor yoga over synagogue — there are even Jews for Jesus. But Jewish Muslims? With a grim deadlock between the Israelis and Palestinians, which often takes on a religious dimension — and a rise in both Islamophobia and anti-Semitism…
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Did an Orthodox Charity Secretly Buy a Synagogue Just to Avoid Filing a Tax Return?
A small New York synagogue is launching a legal assault on Kars4Kids, claiming that the controversial Orthodox charity bought its building in secret in order to become a tax-exempt religious organization and avoid public scrutiny of its dealings. Young Israel of Eltingville, an Orthodox synagogue in central Staten Island, claims that its former president made…
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