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Siege Mentality Grows in Hasidic Kiryas Joel as Corruption and Sex Probes Loom
(JTA) — Even before FBI investigators descended last week on the Satmar Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel, there was a growing sense in this insular community that it and its unique way of life were under attack. Two months earlier, the FBI had been in the village investigating alleged fraud of a government program, and…
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Despite Misgivings, Jewish Donors Open Wallets for Donald Trump — and Sign Up To Raise Big Bucks
Sheldon Adelson was the first, to commit to Donald Trump’s campaign, and now other Jewish donors seem to be flocking to the presumptive Republican nominee’s camp, offering their support and prying open their pocketbooks. Several Republican Jewish Coalition leaders are on board or on their way to join Trump’s finance committees, in charge of providing…
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Who Was Prominent Dallas Lawyer Ira Tobolowsky — and Did ‘Jihad’ Man Want Him Dead?
A prominent Jewish Dallas lawyer who died in a “suspicious” fire reportedly received death threats from a man who declared “jihad” against his own mom and then was sued by the slain lawyer in a contentious defamation case. “I’m going to kill you,” read the email sent to Ira Edwin Tobolowsky before his death, according…
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‘Lost Tribe King’ from Togo Embraced by Orthodox Rabbis in Israel
A Togolese man, calling himself a king and descendant of an ancient Lost Tribe, has gained prominent Orthodox allies in Israel and even held a meeting with the Minister of Religious Affairs to request his people be recognized as a Lost Tribe of Israel. Francois A. Ayi, who describes himself as belonging to “one of…
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Jonathan Sarna Overcomes Health Scares To Maintain Perch as Rock Star Jewish Historian
WALTHAM, Mass. (JTA) – When Jonathan Sarna was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 1999 at the age of 44, it changed his life. Already a highly regarded historian at Brandeis University, Sarna was in the midst of writing his seminal study of American Jewish history when he realized with alarm that he might never finish…
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Will Jewish Billionaires Heed Sheldon Adelson’s Call To Put Money Behind Donald Trump?
Quickly assuming the mantle of Donald Trump’s chief Jewish advocate, Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson has reached out to Republican Jewish leaders asking them to follow his lead and contribute to Trump’s presidential campaign. “Like many of you, I do not agree with him on every issue,” Adelson wrote board members of the Republican Jewish…
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Powerful Brooklyn Satmar Hasidic Leader Drowns in Florida
A wealthy and politically connected leader of the Williamsburg-based Satmar Hasidic sect drowned May 17 in Miami Beach, Florida. Yitzchak Rosenberg, 67, was the president of Congregation Yetev Lev D’Satmar, the central religious organization in Brooklyn of the followers of the Kiryas Joel, New York-based Grand Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, and a founder of the sect’s…
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7 Things About David Horowitz, the Right-Wing Polemicist Who Coined ‘Renegade Jew’ Slur on Bill Kristol
The pro-Donald Trump right-wing polemicist who coined “renegade Jew,” the anti-Bill Kristol slur of the moment, is not your everyday Breitbart bloviator. In successive posts Sunday and Monday, David Horowitz attacked Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol for his last-ditch efforts against Trump, tagging him a “renegade Jew” in his headline and claiming that his opposition…
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Ernest Michel, the Jew Who Gave Up Scoop of a Lifetime by Walking Out on Goering
The date of Ernest Michel’s death was fitting, somehow. A Holocaust survivor and former executive vice president of UJA-Federation of New York from 1970-1989, Michel died at home on May 7, in the week between Yom Hashoah and Yom Ha’atzmaut. Michel was a Jewish communal executive for more than 60 years when such work was…
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Inspiring Rabbis 2016: 32 Men and Women Who Move Us Most Cecelia Beyer
Rabbi Cece started working at our synagogue when I was a freshman in high school, four years ago. I had been a madricha and attending our teen program for a year before she arrived, and once she took over the education director position, I saw changes immediately. She connected so well with kids of all…
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Inspiring Rabbis 2016: 32 Men and Women Who Move Us Most Cheryl Jacobs
Rabbi Jacobs made it possible for me to establish my dream of creating a kosher food pantry in Plantation. I am not a religious guy and was never really involved in Judaism. But she never judged me. She just accepts me, and she understood my passion — to feed people. She has so much experience…
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