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How Hillary Clinton Is Winning Over Neocons — and Why She Will Disappoint Them
Hillary Clinton is racking up supporters. From the Republican side, that is. As the parties national conventions draw nearer, Clinton has not only increased her lead in national polls but has also gained some unexpected praise from security-minded Republicans and from critics of the Obama administration’s foreign policy. Conservative pundit Jennifer Rubin, who has rarely…
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The Republican Convention May Be Short On GOP Politicians, Big on Neo-Nazis
Many GOP officials plan on giving Cleveland and the Republican National Convention a wide berth in July, but one group has confirmed they will be in attendance en masse: neo-Nazis. Matt Parrott, a spokesman for the white-nationalist Traditionalist Workers Party, told McClatchy on Monday that the group plans on sending about 30 members to the…
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Jerrold Nadler Scores Landslide in Manhattan — Barely Wins in Brooklyn
Representative Jerry Nadler beat back a young challenger to win an overwhelming primary victory in the most Jewish district in the entire House of Representatives. The win in the Democratic primary means that it is all-but-certain that the Upper West Side stalwart will be elected to his thirteenth term in the House of Representatives this…
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Welcome to the Orthodox Prayer Group Where Women Lead — and Men Sit Behind Mechitza
The doors are open to everyone at Shabbat services held on the ground floor of this Nostrand Avenue building in Brooklyn. But, unlike most Orthodox spaces, here it’s the women who lead prayers. Men? They can sit in the back. “Men are welcome,” said Nechama Levy, 32, who organized the new prayer group. “But this…
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Donald Trump Can’t Spell Sidney Blumenthal’s Name — But Uses Him as Bogeyman
Donald Trump needs your money, and to get it he’s demonizing Hillary Clinton’s confidant Sidney Blumenthal. In a recent email soliciting donations, the presumptive Republican nominee called on supporters to donate to the campaign so he can “indict Hillary Clinton and find her guilty on all charges.” On what will Trump going to spend these…
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Donald Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Accuses Hillary Clinton of Murder on Twitter
Donald Trump’s lawyer and confidant Michael Cohen accused Hillary Clinton Tuesday in a tweet of murdering an ambassador and selling uranium to the Russians. In his tweet, Cohen attached a photo of the presumptive Democratic nominee with text reading: “I presided over $6 billion lost at the State Department, sold uranium to the Russians through…
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Ex-Hasidic Woman’s ‘Suicide Book’ Rattles Ultra-Orthodox World
“In this city I gave birth to my daughters, and in this city I died because of my daughters” – this, among other things, was written in the suicide note left next to the body of Esty Weinstein, which was found on Sunday in a car near the Ashdod beach. Weinstein, 50, a resident of…
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Jerrold Nadler Congressional Fight Heats Up as Election Day Arrives
It would take a political earthquake for Congressman Jerry Nadler to lose to his first primary challenger since 1996, but in a year of political earthquakes, the Democratic veteran is taking no chances. The longtime congressman, whose represents more Jews than any other member of the House, has been campaigning hard as competition around the…
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Elizabeth Warren Is the Surprising Israel Hawk on Hillary Clinton’s Vice Presidential Shortlist
You’ll never guess who’s the Israel hawk on Hillary Clinton’s presidential shortlist: Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator and liberal champion. Warren would be the natural pick to win over supporters of another progressive Democratic icon — Vermont senator Bernie Sanders. The Bernie or Bust crowd, who are still uncomfortable with Clinton, may find Warren’s positions…
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Meet the Iranian Jew Who’s Running for Congress — Despite the Donald Trump Trolls
Anna Kaplan is a Jewish Iranian refugee who has been living in America for almost four decades. She’s a councilwoman in Long Island, New York and on June 28 will run against five other candidates in the Democratic primary to determine who will face Jack Martins, the Republican candidates, this fall, when voters decide who…
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Fira Bramson, Rescuer of Lithuanian Jewry’s Literary Heritage, Dies at 91
Fira Bramson, a Vilna librarian who was crucial to the post-Communist rescue of Lithuanian Jewry’s literary legacy, passed away at the age of 91 on June 12. Over the past 30 years, anyone researching the past or present of Jewish life and culture in Lithuania, eventually came to Bramson, one of the only archivists and…
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