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In Age of Donald Trump, Jews Battle Over Legacy of RFK
What would Bobby do? This question suddenly has two Jewish former aides of Robert F. Kennedy on competing side of the argument. One, former speechwriter Adam Walinsky, shocked Democrats in announcing his decision to side with Donald Trump, while the other, former Senate aide Peter Edelman, strongly rejected the mere idea of comparing Trump to…
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Jewish National Fund Gives $530K From American Donors to West Bank Settlement
The Jewish National Fund’s American fundraising arm gave $530,000 to a visitor’s center in a West Bank settlement, according to a new disclosure by the JNF, which has been under pressure from the left-wing rabbis’ group T’ruah to list its donations to the West Bank. The $530,000 grant to a museum and visitor’s center in…
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Could Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church Be A Mental Health Model for Synagogues?
Pastor Rick Warren and his wife Kay lost their own son Matthew to suicide in 2013, following severe depression and a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. That’s one reason why the two have become so passionate about ministering to those with mental illnesses as leaders of the Saddleback Church, a Southern Baptist congregation where weekly…
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WATCH: Will Jewish Seniors Haunt Their Trump-Voting Grandkids?
After Donald Trump’s brush with the alt-right, American Jews already have plenty of reason to vote against him. But if Jewish millennials needed an extra push, grandma and grandpa are more than happy to provide it. In a new ad called “We’ve Seen This Before” from the advocacy group Bend the Arc Jewish Action, seniors…
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How Donald Trump Invokes Israel in Anti-Terror Push — and Gets Israel All Wrong
Back in 1994, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin promised the Israeli people that the newly signed Oslo Accord would not lead to a surge in terrorism, even though the Palestinian Authority would take control of parts of the West Bank and Gaza. Rabin could make this promise, he said, because the P.A. — unlike Israel —…
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Why This Former Anti-Semite From Hungary Is Moving to Israel
A former lawmaker for the far-right Jobbik party in Hungary, who stepped down when he discovered his own Jewish roots, is now immigrating to Israel. In an interview with the Hebrew website Ma’ariv, Csanad Szegedi said he wants to parter with Israeli groups to coordinate in the fight against the type of anti-Semitism he once…
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Roseanne Barr Sort Of Backs Donald Trump — Says Bible Foresaw His Rise
The eccentric one-time TV star and kabbalistic “Hebrew priestess” Roseanne Barr said she would pick Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, if she had to choose. “I think he’s trying to wake people up and she’s trying to put them to sleep,” Barr said of Trump, speaking to the Canadian website the Star. “Sometimes when you…
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Jewish Philanthropist Leon Cooperman Accused of Insider Trading
A major Jewish philanthropist and his massive hedge fund are facing insider trading charges, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Wednesday. Leon Cooperman, 73, founder and manager of Omega Advisors, is charged in a civil complaint filed federal court in Pennsylvania with buying stock in a natural gas firm based on information he’d received from…
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Can New President Ari Berman Save Yeshiva University?
Yeshiva University is holding its breath. Next week, the 130-year-old institution will meet the rabbi chosen to try to drag it out of its deepening financial morass. The encounter comes as the future of the troubled university remains very much uncertain. A board committee has picked Rabbi Ari Berman, 47, a former Upper West Side…
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Anthony Weiner Allegedly Sexts 15-Year-Old — Asked for School Girl ‘Rape Fantasies’
The disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner allegedly sexted with a 15-year-old for months, according to an explosive Wednesday post from the Daily Mail. Weiner allegedly wrote the teenager lewd messages for months, sent her shirtless pictures of himself, and asked her to dress up in “school girl” outfits for him on a video messaging application. He…
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From Mushrooms to Skittles: The Anti-Semitic Source of Trump Jr.’s Analogy
Donald Trump Jr.’s tweet comparing Syrian refugees to skittles sounds eerily similar to an analogy crafted by one of Hitler’s favorite anti-Semitic writers. On Monday, Trump Jr. tweeted the following picture, accompanied with the caption: “This image says it all.” This image says it all. Let’s end the politically correct agenda that doesn’t put America…
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