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Donald Trump Puzzles Jewish Groups by Failing To Create Communication Channels
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s popularity is rooted in his outsider status, and that’s left Jewish and pro-Israel groups a bit stumped. After all, it’s standard operating procedure for any advocacy organization come election season: Forge relationships with candidates for office from both parties in order to guarantee access and influence regardless of who wins. Jewish…
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How A Top Jewish Cop in Chicago Wound Up Managing Its Explosive Police Scandal
Commander Marc Buslik was greeted with blank stares as he stood before a group of rank-and-file Chicago police officers, hoping to explain why the federal government was investigating them for unconstitutional policing. “In October of 2014,” he noted bluntly, “Officer Van Dyke decided to pump 16 bullets into Lacquan McDonald.” His shoulders slumped and his…
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Synagogues See Condos as Path To Financial Security When Old Neighborhood Gets Pricey
(JTA) — If there’s one story that sums up the changes afoot on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a once heavily Jewish neighborhood, it’s the saga surrounding the Anshei Meseritz synagogue. The Orthodox shul at 415 E. Sixth St. is a relic of a time when “tenement” synagogues — so named for the narrow…
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Where 17 Jewish Conservatives Stand on Donald Trump
(JTA) — Never Trump? Always Trump? Never-doesn’t-last-forever-Trump? Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, presents a quandary for Jewish conservatives. He said in December that he doesn’t want Jewish Republican money, and that he would be “neutral” when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians. He walked the “neutrality” back in his speech in March to…
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Politically Connected New Haven Rabbi of ‘Yale Five’ Fame Sued for Abuse
A politically connected Orthodox rabbi has been accused in a federal lawsuit of molesting a student at his Jewish boarding school in New Haven, Connecticut. In a civil complaint filed in federal court in Connecticut on May 3, Eliyahu Mirlis, a former student at Yeshiva of New Haven, accused Rabbi Daniel Greer, 75, the school’s…
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After Months of Silence, Adelson Supports Trump, Citing Party Loyalty
America’s biggest Jewish political donor is throwing his support behind Donald Trump. Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas casino mogul and GOP kingmaker who has been on the fence throughout the rocky 2016 Republican primary, has finally made his mind up. But he doesn’t sound very enthusiastic about it. “I’m a Republican, he’s a Republican. He’s…
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Analysis: Investigations Strain De Blasio’s Carefully Cultivated Ties to Orthodox
Bill de Blasio’s persistent courting of New York City’s Orthodox community has reached a crossroads two years into his mayoral administration. The mayor has lavished favors on the Orthodox, restoring key political goodies that his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, eliminated, and creating major new programs with the Orthodox in mind. Yet for all those gestures, it’s…
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Britain Votes, With Labour Under a Cloud of Anti-Semitic Allegations
Rarely if ever has an election in Britain ever been conducted during such a loud public debate about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. The irony of this election falling on Holocaust Day has not been lost on the Jewish population of the UK. The biggest ticket race is that for London mayor between Sadiq Khan…
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Jewish Support for Britain’s Labour at Historic Low Amid Anti-Semitism Scandal
(JTA) — If there were an election tomorrow, only 8.5 percent of British Jews say they would vote for the Labour Party — a sharp decline since last year’s election, when 18 percent of Jews voted Labour. A poll by London’s Jewish Chronicle found that 38.5 percent of Jews give the party the worst possible…
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David Duke Says Jews Are ‘Real Problem’ — and Opposition to Donald Trump Proves It
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke told his radio audience Wednesday that Jewish opposition to Donald Trump shows that Jews are “the real problem” and the “reason why America is not great.” The comments, first noted by the website Right Wing Watch, came the day after the New York businessman all but secured the…
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‘Scary’ Candidate Trump Will Push Jews Toward Clinton, Democrats Say
Donald Trump’s impending Republican nomination will spur American Jews to back Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in greater numbers, say several pundits and pols. Trump’s nomination will pull centrist Jews in the Democrats’ direction, said Greg Rosenbaum, chair of the National Jewish Democratic Council, a political lobbying organization. “We think it would be very…
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