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GOP Convention LiveBlog, Day 2
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Today’s convention theme, according to the Republican National Convention, is Make America Work Again. According to the convention website, “The Obama years have delivered anemic economic growth, the lowest labor-force participation rate in 38 years, and job-killing regulations and legislation like Obamacare. These policies are crushing middle-class families, and a…
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7 Jews To Watch at the Republican National Convention (Where Jews Are Scarce)
Sure, there was a rabbi delivering the opening invocation, an activists selling a variety of Trump kippas outside the arena, and a handful of activists roaming the hallways, but Jewish Republicans are somewhat hard to find at the RNC convention in Cleveland. Still, there some big names no one wants to miss. Here are 7…
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Jewish Speechwriter Wrote Michelle Obama’s 2008 Speech — the One Melania Trump Ripped Off
Sarah Hurwitz, a Jewish speechwriter for Michelle Obama, wrote the 2008 speech that Melania Trump apparently cribbed for her own debut speech on the opening night of the Republican National Convention. Hurwitz now works at the White House as a senior adviser, and once worked for Hillary Clinton. She helped pen the message delivered by…
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New Brandeis President Ron Liebowitz Says Jewish Values (Still) at Heart of Mission
(JTA) — After 32 years at Middlebury College, Ron Liebowitz is calling Brandeis University his new academic home. On July 1, the 59-year-old New York native took the reins as the ninth president of Brandeis, a Jewish-sponsored, nonsectarian research university in suburban Boston with an enrollment of 3,600 undergraduates and more than 2,000 graduate students….
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Black Israelites Stand with Black Lives Matter Amid Turmoil — but ‘God Comes First’
In recent weeks, America’s racial wounds have been torn open, an uneasy rhythm of violence playing out in the streets and on social media: African-Americans shot dead on camera by police, protests rolling through cities and police killed in apparent retaliatory shootings. Like many African American congregations, members of the century-old black Hebrew Israelite movement…
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Little-Known Rabbi Delivers GOP Convention Invocation in Place of Haskel Lookstein
The Republican National Convention turned to a little-known Ohio police rabbi to deliver an invocation after Rabbi Haskel Lookstein pulled out over the weekend amid protests. Rabbi Ari Wolf took to the stage at the Quicken Loans arena to give an invocation that combined Jewish prayers and phrases in Hebrew. Wolf used the term “avinu…
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Watch the Republican Convention Live
Watch Day 1 of the GOP convention below. The livestream will resume at 5:30 PM. For our live blog updates, click here.
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The ‘Kippah Guy’ Comes to Cleveland, Bearing Donald Trump (and Hillary) Yarmulkes
Marc Daniels, better known as “The Kippah Guy,” isn’t at the Republican National Convention this week in Cleveland for politics. On the street near the Quicken Loans Arena, he sells yarmulkes in both Democrat blue and Republican red emblazoned with the names of the party candidates in Hebrew and English. Instead, what matters to Daniels…
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Mennonite Church of Canada Backs BDS — but Americans Seek Balance
The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement claimed a landslide victory in Canada on the weekend of July 9 as the Mennonite Church Canada Assembly overwhelmingly supported a resolution backing the boycott of Israel. All but one of the 350 delegates of the Canadian assembly supported the resolution, the website Mondoweiss reported. The Mennonite Church of…
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Republican Convention Liveblog, Day 1
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. This liveblog is now closed. Click here to follow Day 2 live. Today’s convention theme, according to the Republican National Convention, is Make America Safe Again. According to the convention website, “From attacks on our own soil and overseas to the tragedy in Benghazi, the policies of Barack Obama and…
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The Jewish Twittersphere Saw That Trump-Pence Logo — and Said ‘Oy Vey’
Donald Trump’s campaign rolled out a new logo to promote his announcement that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will be running for vice president on the GOP ticket. Now, the Trump campaign is maybe wishing it had given it a second look. While Trump’s pick drew little attention given that news media had been reporting Pence’s…
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