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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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NYC Urges Citizens to Register and “Nosh the Vote” Before Yom Kippur Fast
As Jews in New York today got ready to start their Yom Kippur fast at sundown, the city offered them one more opportunity to chow down — and also to register to vote. As part of the “Nosh the Vote” program, a dozen food trucks and street carts across the five boroughs today distributed voter…
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In First-Ever Political Endorsement, NY Jewish Week Slams Trump and Backs Clinton
In its first-ever political endorsement, the New York Jewish Week backed Hillary Clinton in an editorial posted hours before the start of the Yom Kippur holiday. The paper, which has a print distribution of 55,000 and is one of the largest Jewish newspapers in the country, argues in the unsigned editorial that Donald Trump is…
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Yom Kippur Online: Pray in Your Pajamas, and Protest the Occupation at the Same Time
If you disagree with your rabbi’s politics — on Israel, refugees and immigration, for example — you don’t have to suffer through an uncomfortable Yom Kippur sermon. You can live-stream it instead, and pray in the comfort of your own ideological and actual home. This year, the far left-wing group Jewish Voice for Peace is…
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Jeffrey Goldberg, Liberal Zionist Writer, Named Atlantic’s Next Editor-in-Chief
Jeffrey Goldberg, the prominent columnist known for his foreign policy writings and liberal Zionist commitments, was on October 11 named as the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, a magazine reputed for its highbrow coverage of news and culture. “It’s certainly true that this was not in my plan for 2016,” he said in a Monday interview…
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You Lost The Debate? Blame the Jews
If Donald Trump lost his second smackdown with Hillary Clinton, it’s because the Jews sabotaged him or spun his performance to their own advantage, say his most ardent backers in the “alt-right” blogosphere. “The people believe Trump won the debate. It’s really just an objective fact. Not sure how even liberal kikes could claim otherwise….
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