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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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WATCH: Does Secret 11-Minute Video Reveal Abuse of Boy by Hasidic School Principal?
(JTA) — The story is an all-too-familiar horror tale: An adult in a position of power – in this case a Hasidic school principal – is accused of sexually abusing a child in his care. But one thing makes this episode very different: The encounter was captured on a hidden camera and posted online this week…
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Republican Jews Bow to Reality of Donald Trump as Their Nominee
WASHINGTON – Jewish Republicans have been trying to avoid this moment ever since the tumultuous primary campaign kicked off. But after Indiana voters dealt a deathblow Tuesday night to Ted Cruz, the question is inescapable for Jewish backers of the GOP: Can they rally behind Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee? The answer for many…
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Is China Cracking Down on Jewish Community in Kaifeng?
The Jewish community in Kaifeng, China, is facing a government “crackdown,” according to Jewish activists. “It is time to break the silence,” said Anson Laytner, former president of the Sino-Judaic Institute, which has been working in China since the 1980s. “Their very survival as Jews is at stake.” Government police have shut down the only…
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Police Probe Video of Ultra-Orthodox Principal Kissing Boy in Kiryas Joel School: Report
Police are looking into a video circulating widely among Orthodox social media users that shows a teacher at an Orthodox school kissing a young male student, the Journal News reported. The video, which emerged from Orthodox groups on the social networking service WhatsApp on Sunday before being posted by various advocates on Facebook, appears to…
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Israel Blames Ultra-Orthodox Parents for Failings of Schools
The Israeli government says that Haredi parents and schools — rather than the government itself — are to blame for denying secular education to ultra-Orthodox youth in Israel. That was the government’s response to a lawsuit filed by 53 ex-Orthodox individuals against the Ministry of Education for failing to teach them basic secular subjects like…
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