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What Does Bernie Sanders’s Support Among Arab Americans Mean for the Jews?
Bernie Sanders, the Jewish candidate who has gone further than any other member of the tribe in a presidential race, is struggling to connect with Jewish voters. But the rumpled firebrand is dominating rival Hillary Clinton among a surprising slice of the electorate: Arab Americans. Sanders swept Tuesday’s Democratic primary vote in Dearborn, Michigan, the…
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This Hipster Hero Helped Stop Tel Aviv Terror Attack With His Guitar
Yishay Montogmery wanted to spend Tuesday evening relaxing and strumming his acoustic guitar on the Jaffa waterfront. Instead, his evening turned a real nightmare situation. When a young terrorist with a knife started attacking him, he didn’t waste anytime, he bashed him on the head with the only weapon he had available: his guitar. “After…
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Why Civil Rights ‘Freedom Kippah’ Is a Thing Again
(JTA) — Fifty-one years ago this week, hundreds of people marched from Selma toward Montgomery, Alabama, to demand voting rights for African-Americans. The march, one of the most famous civil rights demonstrations in American history, helped spur the passage of the Voting Rights Act. What is less well known is that kippahs were a symbol…
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Donald Trump’s (So Far) Unstoppable Run Leaves Neoconservatives Out in the Cold
Donald Trump’s ascent in the Republican presidential race has presented one group of Republicans with something more than just concern about the fate of their party. For neoconservatives, a Trump nomination could mean an extension of their sentence in a political Siberia. Some members of this hawkish cohort saw the 2016 election as an opportunity…
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Boris Sandler Retires as Editor of Yiddish Forward
Forverts editor Boris Sandler, who introduced Yiddish journalism to a new generation and earned the laurels of the Jewish literary community in the U.S. and in Israel, will retire, Samuel Norich, publisher and president/CEO of the Forward Association, announced today. Sandler, 66, took the reins of the Yiddish Forward 18 years ago, and broadened the…
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Bloody Murder of American Business Student Stuns Tel Aviv — and Joe Biden
The bloody murder of an American business student in a tourist area of Jaffa, a seaport city adjacent to Tel Aviv, stunned tourists in Israel’s vacation hub — and shocked a university campus thousands of miles away in Tennessee. Taylor Force, a 29-year-old student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, was stabbed by a Palestinian as…
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Pew Report: Meet the Masorti, Israel’s ‘Traditional’ Tribe
An Israeli Masorti Jew may be the one who goes to synagogue on Shabbat morning and then takes off his kippah and drives to watch his favorite team’s soccer game in the afternoon; or the teenager who will never forget to kiss the mezuzah mounted on every doorpost, even on the way out to a…
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Feds Slam Michigan Jewish Institute for ‘Illegal’ Pell Grant Fraud Scam
The U.S. Department of Education has accused the Michigan Jewish Institute, a college in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield, of illegally obtaining federal Pell Grants for its study abroad program. “The Department will permit this scheme to continue no longer,” the DOE stated in a damning , outlining their investigation. Last week, the DOE…
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Pew Study of Israel Shows a Nation Fractured Into ‘Tribes’ — Big Split With American Jews
Even though Peter Jaffe had never been to Israel, the Maryland lawyer felt a kinship with the people there, imagining a nation state full of “New York Jews.” That changed as soon as he set foot in the Holy Land. “After I was there, I found out that we’re much less similar,” he said. It’s…
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Donald Trump’s Quick-To-Offend Style Wins Israeli Admirers — Despite Questions
As Donald Trump’s campaign surges to front-runner status on shock value in America, his bombast is familiar to a certain type of Israeli. “He’s a no-bullshitter,” said Doron Mizrachi, owner of a South Tel Aviv restaurant that sells bourekas, or Middle Eastern puff pastries. Mizrachi concedes that customers in this left-wing neighborhood sometimes bristle at…
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Is the Dead Sea Dying?
Sometimes you need a new vantage point to understand an older picture. Two months ago a small camera-equipped, motorized glider took off close to a signpost that said “steps down to the Dead Sea 1984.” The location was the Einot Tzukim (Ein Feshkha) nature reserve in the northern Dead Sea area. Near the sign were…
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