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Nazi Detector App Brands Right-Wing Extremists — and Donald Trump
An internet tool singles out extreme right-wingers online — and Donald Trump — by putting swastikas around their names, mirroring an earlier application that neo-Nazis used to identify Jews online. The Nazi Detector, a Google Chrome extension, identifies not only white supremacist social media users, famous Nazis and anti-Semitic groups, including Adolf Hitler, David Duke…
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During Ramadan, Jews and Muslims Share Dinner and Friendship — But National Effort Lags Behind
The group that gathered inside a South Brooklyn Jewish community center the evening of Monday, June 20, had trouble staying silent. Young children whimpered impatiently, their eyes on the tables of untouched food, and latecomers whispered excuses as they pushed through the crowded room. Only a man in a light-gray skull cap succeeded in capturing…
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Supreme Court Immigration Ruling Leaves Millions in Limbo, Some Jewish Groups Say
Uncertainty will continue to hound millions of immigrant families after the Supreme Court failed Thursday to reach a decision on the legality of President Barack Obama’s executive orders on immigration, pro-immigrant Jewish groups say. Texas, along with 25 other states, challenged Obama’s 2014 immigration policy deferring deportation for certain undocumented immigrants, saying it violated the…
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Hebrew Israelites Celebrate Rabbi Who Founded Their Century-Old Movement
This weekend black Israelites will gather across New York City to celebrate their spiritual patriarch — a rabbi from Harlem who helped establish America’s black Hebrew-Israelite movement a century ago. “We thank the Most High for our beloved Chief Rabbi Matthew,” community member Deborah Reuben wrote online. “Chief Rabbi Matthew will always be remembered [as]…
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Jew Vs. Jew, Brit Vs. Brit, No One Agrees on Brexit
As Britain’s referendum on whether to leave the European Union crept closer over the past few weeks, it became more and more clearly a question upon which the country — as well as its Jewish community — was sharply divided. “I’m honestly can’t stop crying,” Rebecca Filer, a Jewish student at the University of Bristol,…
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Jackie Mason Calls Jerry Nadler ‘Overweight’ in Primary Opponent’s Robocall
Comedian Jackie Mason calls Congressman Jerry Nadler “a little overweight” in a new robocall paid for by the congressional campaign of Oliver Rosenberg, Nadler’s challenger in the June 28 Democratic primary. “You know what Jerry Nadler has done in Congress so far? He voted for the Iran deal,” Mason says of Nadler, who has represented…
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Israeli Rabbinical Court Rejects Rabbi Who Converted Ivanka Trump
An Israeli rabbinical court did not accept a conversion by an Orthodox rabbi who also helped Ivanka Trump become Jewish. In the latest case exemplifying the tension between Israel’s rabbinate and Orthodox groups in the Diaspora, a religious court prevented the marriage of an Israeli man and an American woman, who converted under a well-respected…
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Donald Trump Would Back Israel Annexation of Parts of West Bank
If elected president in November, Donald Trump would support Israel’s annexing parts of the West Bank, a senior official in the Trump campaign told Haaretz in an interview this week. Trump is not worried about the possibility of a binational state, said David Friedman, the candidate’s adviser on Israel. “Nobody really knows how many Palestinians…
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Ex-Orthodox Feel Pushed From Their Communities — But Still Cherish Being Jewish
Many formerly ultra-Orthodox and Modern Orthodox Jews who no longer hold the beliefs of their communities feel “pushed off the derech,” yet still retain their sense of Jewish identity, a groundbreaking new study of the group has revealed. A third of those surveyed have yet to physically leave their communities, and may maintain outward displays…
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Camp JRF Aims to Make Summer a Safe Space for LGBTQ Kids
As schools let out for the summer, Camp JRF is preparing to welcome a diverse cohort of kids to its spot among the Pocono Mountains. Affiliated with the Reconstructionist movement and located an hour’s drive from Philadelphia, JRF is pushing to make inclusivity a key part of its mission — in particular, toward kids who…
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Heshy Jacob, Last of the Lower East Side Power Brokers, Dies at 71
Harold “Heshy” Jacob, the last of the great power brokers of the Jewish Lower East Side, died June 23 after an illness. Jacob, 71, was a neighborhood power player with a hand in much of the communal and business life of in Lower East Side. As Jacob explained his own influence in a 2013 interview…
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