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Soundtrack of Our Spirit 2016
Sarah Aroeste, “Komo Vas a Ser?”
Alford, MA Age: 40 Song: “Komo Vas a Ser?” Sarah Aroeste, inspired by her family’s Sephardic roots in Greece and Macedonia, has spent the last 15 years bringing her contemporary style of original and traditional Ladino music to audiences around the world. Aroeste writes and sings in Ladino, the Judeo-Spanish dialect that originated by Spanish…
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Soundtrack of Our Spirit 2016 Prodezra Beats, “Flip”
Atlanta, Georgia Age: 35 Song: “Flip” Reuben Formey, known by his stage name Prodezra, is an American Jewish rapper and producer based in Savannah, Georgia. He has released two albums, Until When (2009) and Connection Revealed (2011). He is an African-American Orthodox Jewish rapper.
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Jewish Organization Demands Donald Trump Return Donations from White Supremacists
Bend the Arc, a Jewish justice organization, is demanding Donald Trump return contributions from white nationalists. The Republican presidential nominee has continuously collected money from notable figures in the alt-right, including Michael Polignano, editor of a white supremacist, anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant website, Counter-Currents. Polignano donated $214.12 this election cycle. According to Media Matters, the editor…
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Trump ‘Joked About Gas Chambers,’ Former Employee Tweets
A former senior Trump Organization executive who now backs Hillary Clinton in the presidential race alleged on Twitter today that Donald Trump “joked about gas chambers and ovens” years ago. The tweets came amid a growing furor over comments by Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., who made reference on a Philadelphia radio show to the…
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Alleged Jewish Mosque Arsonist Posted Pro-Israel Videos on Facebook
A Jewish man who confessed to an arson attack on a Florida mosque posted videos on his Facebook page produced by mainstream pro-Israel advocacy groups. Florida police charged Joseph M. Schreiber with the September 11 arson of the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, a mosque attended by Omar Mateen, the man who killed 49 people…
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Newsweek Editor Claims ‘Zionist Cry Babies’ Have No Ties to Israel in Twitter Rant
A high-level editor of Newsweek Middle East evoked what some called anti-Semitic tropes in a lengthy Twitter exchange on September 6. In responding to a flurry of online criticism of a piece published by Newsweek Middle East titled “Where is Palestine?” Leila Hatoum alluded to the notion that Eastern-European Jews have no ancestral or historic…
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Soundtrack of Our Spirit 2016 Billy Kaplan, “Beggar’s Niggun”
Evanston, Illinois Age: 53 Song: “Beggar’s Niggun” Billy may have been known in the late 1980s by teens and folkies hanging out in Washington Square Park in New York City as Mr. Tambourine Man, but now he is a singer/songwriter known for catchy melodies and rich harmonies. Billy plays the baritone ukulele, percussion and keyboards….
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6 Things That Cost as Much as Israel’s New U.S. Military Aid Package
In Washington Wednesday, the United States promised $38 billion in military aid to Israel over the next ten years. In case that’s not enough, Haaretz reported that the U.S. is prepared to send even more should the need arise. So how much money is $3.8 billion a year for ten years? An unfathomable amount of…
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Barack Obama Hails $38B Israel Aid Package
President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that a new $38 billion aid package will help ensure Israel can defend itself from threats, commenting in a statement on the 10-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the two nations. “Both Prime Minister (Benjamin) Netanyahu and I are confident that the new MOU will make a significant contribution…
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Sheldon Silver’s Handpicked Successor Is Trounced in New York Primary
The electoral thwacking suffered by the handpicked successor to New York State Assembly leader Sheldon Silver looks like the last nail in the coffin of the old Lower East Side political order. Alice Cancel, a longtime Lower East Side activist who won a special election in April to complete Silver’s forfeited final term, came in…
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A Newtown Father’s Fight Against Online ‘Hoaxers’ — and for Noah Pozner’s Memory
On December 14, 2012, six-year-old Noah Pozner was murdered along with 20 other children and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. I interviewed his mother, Veronique Pozner, six days after her son’s funeral when the family had just finished sitting shiva, the traditional Jewish mourning period. Even as she…
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