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Less Than Half of American Millennials Sympathize With Israel Over Palestinians: Pew Study
Americans overwhelmingly continue to side with Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a Pew foreign policy survey shows — except for Millennials are more likely to sympathize with Palestinians. The survey, published earlier this month showed that a decade ago, Americans across the generations held similar views on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Not any more. Today, Millennials…
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‘Joining Fabric of World Jewish Community,’ 100 Convert on African Island of Madagascar
More than 100 men and women converted to Judaism in Madagascar this month, a historic first for the large island nation off the southeast coast of Africa. The May conversions, organized by Kulanu, a volunteer-run American nonprofit founded in the 1990s to support “isolated and emerging Jewish communities” worldwide, was the product of years of…
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Controversy Swirls Among Satmars Over Drowned Businessman — Even as Politicians Pay Respects
Amid growing tensions over the burial of drowned Satmar leader Yitzchok Rosenberg, elected officials are streaming to memorial gatherings for the Brooklyn businessman. New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams have both attended the shiva gatherings for Rosenberg, the president of the central religious organization in Brooklyn of the followers…
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Rachel Fishman Feddersen Named the Forward’s New Publisher
The Forward, America’s leading Jewish news source since 1897, has named Rachel Fishman Feddersen as its new publisher. Feddersen will join the publication in June as it continues its transformation into a nimble, digital-first source for Jewish news. “Rachel brings tremendous expertise and leadership skills to the Forward,” said Samuel Norich, currently the Forward’s publisher….
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Did Orthodox Union Water Down Kosher Standards To Keep Manischewitz Happy?
A rabbi who worked for the Orthodox Union, the world’s biggest kosher certifier, for 20 years is claiming in a lawsuit that the agency acquiesced to demands from Manischewitz, a client and the iconic matzo-maker, that it soften its standards. The O.U. let Manischewitz hire and pay for its own kosher inspector, a practice that…
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Bernie Sanders Takes Feud With Democratic Establishment to Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Florida Home Turf
Two of the most prominent Jewish Democrats are engaged in an ugly battle, which is playing out on national TV, at party headquarters, and on the battlefield of a Florida congressional district. Bernie Sanders, the progressive presidential candidate and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, are locked in a bitter dispute. The…
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Battle of the Wannabe White House Jewish Son-in-Laws
(JTA) – Somebody better put up a mezuzah outside the Lincoln bedroom. Whoever ends up winning the presidential election in November, one thing seems certain: For the first time in history, Jews will be in the president’s inner family circle. Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have Jewish sons-in-law, and of course Bernie Sanders —…
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We Did What We Had To: My Teen Abortion Tale, 1969
When memory bursts, it’s like a dam opening, flooding the present. Still, I did not expect it to happen in a late-night taxi as I headed home from work, reading a New York Times story on my smartphone. On its face, the story before me had nothing to do with my own history: It was…
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Why Is the Anti-Defamation League Calling Out Donald Trump by Name?
WASHINGTON — Even as leaders of the Anti-Defamation League gathered in the nation’s capital on May 16 for their annual meeting, hateful campaign rhetoric kept piling up in the presidential race. In the latest incident, David Horowitz, a columnist for the right-wing news site Breitbart.com, denounced Bill Kristol, an anti-Donald Trump Jewish Republican, as a…
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It’s Michael Cohen vs Michael Cohen Across the Jewish Trump Divide
Michael Cohen, Trump consigliere, meet Michael Cohen, Trump hater. The two men have the same name, and wildly differing positions on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and probably on most other things as well. One is Trump’s longtime close advisor and relentless defender; the other has called him a “misogynist demagogue” who stands no chance…
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Ann Coulter Lashes Out Over Immigration: ‘Oh God, Not the Jews Again’
“Oh God, not the Jews again,” muttered conservative commentator Ann Coulter when asked about Jewish immigration to the United States. She was responding to a question on Wednesday by BBC’s James Naughtie on whether her anti-immigration stance would also have applied to Jewish immigrants to New York in the 20th century. Coulter went on to…
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