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Trial Begins for Hasid Accused in Brutal Brooklyn Beating of Gay Black Man
Two-and-a-half years after a late-night gang beating that left him partially blinded, Brooklyn man Taj Patterson is preparing to face one of his alleged assailants in court. Mayer Herskovic, a 24-year-old Hasidic man, faces felony charges connected to the Williamsburg, Brooklyn beating in a trial that began August 29 in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Patterson is…
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New York City Council Mulling Resolution To Condemn BDS
The New York City Council is moving to consider a resolution condemning boycotts of Israel next week. The council’s Committee on Contracts is scheduled to consider a resolution next Thursday, Politico reported, that would condemn “all efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the global movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction the people…
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How David Duke Paved the Way for the “Alt-Right” — and Donald Trump
The alt-right may bill itself as something new, but its roots are in the white supremacist politicians of the late 20th century. The movement embraces much of the racism and xenophobia of this elder generation, generating racist cartoons, hosting discussions of “the Jewish question,” and engaging in a passionate online discussion about the scientific justification…
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WATCH: Dan Markel’s Ex-Wife Admits Brother Joked About Hiring Hitman
The ex-wife of murdered law professor Dan Markel breaks down in a newly released 2014 video of of investigators telling her that Markel had been shot to death in his Tallahassee driveway. Between sobs, Wendi Adelson tells an investigator that her brother, Charles Adelson, had joked about hiring a hitman to kill Markel. “Danny didn’t…
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Why Is Donald Trump’s Doctor Talking About Hillary Clinton’s Health — or Tweeting in Italian?
Just when you thought Election 2016 couldn’t get weirder, Donald Trump’s Jewish doctor, who reassures us the nominee will be the “healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,” has a thing for Italian so intense, he delivered a speech in the language – at his son’s bar mitzvah. And at least according to one account,…
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Anthony Weiner’s Semi-Nude Photo Next to Sleeping Son is Last Straw for Huma Abedin
Top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin is separating from her husband, disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, after the New York Post published semi-nude selfies Weiner took while he was lying in bed with their sleeping son. The Post story marks Weiner’s third or fourth major sexting scandal since 2011, depending on how you count. Public…
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Who Are The Hebrew Israelites?
Updated December 11, 2019 Their story rarely finds its way into the mainstream news. When it does, readers are surprised. A cousin of First Lady Michelle Obama is a black rabbi in Chicago? Generations of African Americans — not religious converts — who observe the Sabbath and read the Torah? A star NBA player decides…
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New Hebrew Israelite Chief Rabbi Capers Funnye Makes a Play for History
On a recent Saturday in Brooklyn, hundreds of Hebrew Israelites assembled to hear their leader speak. Rabbi Capers C. Funnye was to be formally inaugurated as chief rabbi — and to lay out his historic vision for the movement. At Bnai Adath Kol Beth Yisrael, pews were filled to capacity, upstairs and down. Electric fans…
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Meet the Jewish ‘Paleoconservative’ Who Coined The Term ‘Alternative Right’
The term “alt-right” is a hipper-sounding version of the original notion of the “alternative right,” which Paul Gottfried, a Jewish academic, coined in 2008. Today his notion — of a new home for conservatives who saw themselves as too extreme for the mainstream movement — has become the “alt-right,” whose adherents include a range of…
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Is the ‘Alt-Right’ Reaching Out to Jews — and Why?
The term “alt-right” is everywhere right now. Donald Trump has been tied to it. Hillary Clinton made a speech about it. On August 25, when Clinton gave her speech, the phrase “altrightmeans” trended on Twitter all day, precisely because most people didn’t know how to complete that sentence. Turns out, the “alt-right” is a loose…
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6 Media Pillars of the ‘Alt-Right’
The “alt-right” has taken the media by storm this summer. From the rise — and downfall — of Milo Yiannapoulos to Trump tweeting anti-Semitic graphics to the hiring of Steve Bannon, chairman of Breitbart News, to run the Trump campaign, the neo-white supremacist movement has never been more visible. The movement and its racist, anti-Semitic,…
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