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Newt Gingrich: Steve Bannon Isn’t Anti-Semitic — He Worked in Hollywood and for Goldman Sachs!
The ‘alt-right’ will be firmly ensconced in the West Wing next January, as former head of Breitbart News Steve Bannon takes up the role of chief strategist for President-elect Donald Trump. But don’t call him an anti-Semite, Newt Gingrich said. After all, he’s worked on Wall Street and in Hollywood. “He was a managing partner…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Lil Dicky
Bringing the (NSFW) Jew Flow to Hip Hop It’s been a big year for Lil Dicky (aka David Burd). In February, Forbes named the 28-year-old one of Hip-Hop’s 2016 Cash Princes. In June, the rapper was anointed one of hip-hop’s up-and-comers in XXL magazine’s annual “Freshman Class,” a list whose notable alumni include the likes…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Ben Shapiro
The Breitbart Writer Who Protested Anti-Semitism At the age of 32, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro added to his resume a title he’d never wished for: the No. 1 target of anti-Semitic attacks aimed at journalists. According to an Anti-Defamation League study, Shapiro, a former rising star at Breitbart who turned against Donald Trump, was the…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Yehuda Glick
The American Member of the Knesset Who Wants the Temple Mount Back In November 2014, Yehuda Glick was shot at point-blank range by a Palestinian assailant who wanted to kill a prominent proponent of Jewish prayer at the Temple Mount. Glick not only survived the attack, but this year he was voted into the Israeli…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Jonathan Safran Foer
Triumphant Return With a New Novel To a world that, despite his best-selling books and major movies of the millennium’s first decade, had moved on without him, Jonathan Safran Foer has recently announced, “Here I Am.” In 2002, when Foer published his first novel, “Everything Is Illuminated,” at the age of 25, he earned a…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Sarah Hurwitz
The Voice of Michelle Obama As Michelle Obama prepares to leave the White House, where she made history as the country’s first African-American First Lady, she’s also consolidating her position as one of the nation’s most beloved public figures — thanks in part to speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz. In October, feeling angry after listening to the…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Daniel Landes
The Rabbi Whose Ordination of Women Is Pushing the Envelope of Orthodoxy In 2016, Rabbi Daniel Landes pushed the envelope of Modern Orthodoxy in Israel by ordaining women rabbis in an Orthodox-style ceremony. The former head of the Pardes Institute — a coeducational beit midrash, or religious institution of Jewish study — Landes has been…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Deborah Lipstadt
Holocaust Historian Reaches the Red Carpet Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt finally got to walk the red carpet this year. The painstaking scholarship on Holocaust denial that she’s pursued from her perch at Emory University for decades has garnered headlines in the past. Now, she’s being played by an Academy Award-winning actress (Rachel Weisz) in a…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Jared Kushner
Not Just a New York Observer Anymore It was a shocking stunt: Two days after the release of a video of Donald Trump boasting about getting away with sexual assault, Trump’s campaign brought four women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual abuse to the third presidential debate. Trump officials wanted the women seated in…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
Fighting for Jewish Feminism During the past year, Sharon Weiss-Greenberg, a public intellectual who writes for the Jewish press, has spoken out against rape in the Orthodox community, as well as the need for women to assume leadership roles in American Orthodox Judaism. The mainstream press also seeks her expertise: For a Washington Post story…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Isaac Mizrahi
He Has Become a Jew of Stature, By Design Once teased by the other boys in his modern Orthodox Brooklyn day school, Isaac Mizrahi became a person of standing in the community this year, when the Jewish Museum dedicated an exhibit to the fashion designer’s work over the decades. Including costumes he created for several…
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