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The Kabbalist Who Would Be King of a New Jewish Monarchy in Israel
The crowd was eclectic, from stern, black-garbed ultra-Orthodox men to youths of both sexes bedecked in colorful, hippie-like clothes. They hailed from homes as far as Safed, the kabbalist center in Israel’s North, and as remote as isolated hilltop settlements in the occupied West Bank. Even a few New Age types from secular Tel Aviv…
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Chicago’s Two Big Jewish Antagonists Reach a Settlement, Averting Teachers Strike
A Chicago Public Schools teachers’ strike was narrowly averted when union leaders, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and school board officials came to a tentative last-minute agreement late Monday night, just minutes before the deadline at midnight October 9. The strike, which would have kept nearly 380,000 students out of class, had been scheduled to begin at…
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At Florida Rally, Trump Evokes Specter of ‘International Banks’ and Jews Cheer, Too
Donald Trump was speaking in an area with one of the largest Jewish populations in the United States, but in his October 13 speech, he sought to rebut claims of sexual misconduct by alluding to a malevolent global conspiracy — a vintage anti-Semitic trope. He referred repeatedly to a Clinton-organized conspiracy involving bankers and the…
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Fuming Behind the Scenes, the Republican Jewish Coalition Effectively Dumps Trump
Uneasy from the start with Donald Trump as their party’s presidential candidate, Republican Jewish activists are fuming and fretting in the wake of revelations about Trump’s lewd character and alleged sexual harassment. The Republican Jewish Coalition, which endorsed Trump immediately after he secured the party’s nomination, has not withdrawn its official support. But behind closed…
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Hit Man Implicates Law Professor’s Ex-Wife in Murder Plot
One of the hit men who killed Jewish law professor Dan Markel says that Markel’s ex-wife, Wendi Adelson, scoped him and his partner out the day before the murder. The allegation came in an October 4 police interview, released this week by the Tallahassee Democrat. The hit man, Luis Rivera, says that Sigfredo Garcia, his…
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This Neo-Nazi Hit List Helps Jew-Hating Trump Trolls Find Their Targets
A website with the deceptively innocuous name of “Jews in Modern Society” lists the names, photos and professions of almost 400 Jews from academia, social-activism, the financial world and left-wing politics. It’s basically a hit list for neo-Nazis or white supremacists. The mission statement of the site complains that “Jews have had over 100 years…
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Police Investigating Colorado Teen’s Suicide Discover His Neo-Nazi Facebook Group
After a Boulder, Colorado high school student took his own life, police found a neo-Nazi chat group that involved him and more than a dozen other students. “You can hang Jews on trees, shoot them right in the knees. Gas as many as you please,” wrote one commenter on the Facebook conversation, titled “4th Reich…
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Right Before Yom Kippur, New York Synagogue Finds Swastikas Spray-Painted on Cemetery Wall
As Jews prayed this weekend to be sealed into the Book of Life, vandals in a upstate New York town of Warwick disrespected their dead. Police in the town on October 9 alerted officials at nearby Temple Beth Shalom that the front of their cemetery had been defaced with a spray-painted swastika and Nazi slogans…
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10 Truths About Mindy Finn, the Jewish, Pro-Life Texan Running for Vice-President
Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin announced a Jewish running mate last weekend: Mindy Finn. Finn is a veteran GOP strategist who runs a feminist non-profit. She and McMullin, a former CIA agent, see their independent candidacy as a conservative alternative to Donald Trump. With their religious makeup — a Mormon and a Jew — and…
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Can Theo Epstein Break the Chicago Cubs’ Curse?
It’s like the beginning of a Jewish joke: A young boy obsessed with the statistics in “The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract,” and with creating rosters on the old Apple II computer game MicroLeague Baseball, grows up to become the general manager of not one but two major league baseball teams. And of course they…
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4 Things to Know About the Noble Harvard Prof Who Won Nobel
In Cambridge, Massachusetts—home to prestigious schools like Harvard and M.I.T.—the Swedish Academy’s announcement of Nobel Prize winners usually brings happy news to several professors. The streak holds this month, as Harvard economist Oliver Hart scored a Nobel for his works on contracts. Sharing the Prize in Economics with his MIT colleague, Bengt Holmstrom, the Jewish…
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