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In Recorded Conversation, Gafni Considers Strategy Against Critics
In a conversation with his lawyer and public relations advisor, Marc Gafni, the controversial spiritual leader, speculated about suing the Forward as a “test case” and said that the public campaign denouncing him was driven by Jews who are upset about his new think tank’s success. The conversation occurred December 30 after the end of…
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Martin Luther King Signed Shabbat Program Goes on Block
A piece of civil rights history with a poignant link to a New Jersey Jewish community is going on the auction block. A signed program from a 1963 Shabbat sermon delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Temple Sha’arey Shalom in Springfield, New Jersey is available for sale at Lelands Auction in an online…
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Sheldon Adelson Pours $7M Into Pro-Israel Website — Then Cuts Off Cash
Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has spent nearly $7 million on a little-known pro-Israel website run by the son of his former top aide at the Las Vegas Sands Corporation. The website, From the Grapevine, has not previously been publicly linked to Adelson. It is the third media outlet whose hidden ties to Adelson have…
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Rabbi Pinto Ordered to Prison in Israel — New York Libel Suit Dismissed
Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, the powerful Israeli rabbi, has faced major legal setbacks in court rulings on both sides of the Atlantic this week. The decisions, one of which will send Pinto to an Israeli prison next month, come as the once-untouchable religious empire around Pinto continues to totter. In Israel on January 5, the country’s…
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Marc Gafni Defends Return to Spotlight as Backlash Gathers Steam
Marc Gafni, a once-promising Jewish leader dogged by allegations of sexual improprieties stretching back years, has returned to the public eye as a leader of a California think tank. But his stunning re-emergence, trumpeted in a recent New York Times article, has elicited a new wave of condemnations from Jewish leaders. Rabbi David Ingber, an…
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2 Killed as New Year’s Day Terror Strikes Tel Aviv
At least two people were killed on New Year’s Day when a suspected Israeli Arab terrorist opened fire on a bar on Dizengoff Street, in the heart of Tel Aviv’s chic shopping thoroughfare. Seven people were also wounded, two seriously, in the attack. Security forces identified the shooter as a 28-year-old Israeli Arab from northern…
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Hillary Clinton Complains in Email of ‘Unbelievable’ Airbrushing From Orthodox Papers
Hillary Clinton complains in a newly released email about being airbrushed out of photographs by ultra-Orthodox newspapers. The email with the subject line “unbeleivable” was bared as the State Department released another 5,000 pages of emails of the former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate. The emails released on Thursday afternoon are part of…
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Lawmaker Makes Video Plea for Non-Christians To Convert — on Taxpayer’s Dime
MILWAUKEE — At first glance, the video looks innocent enough – a 50-year-old man, standing before a Christmas tree quoting the Bible and offering a religious Christmas greeting in which he urges non-Christians to convert to Christianity. The video loses its innocence, however, when one learns the speaker is Rep. Scott Allen, a Republican member…
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Reconstructionist Synagogue Rebels Against Allowing Intermarried Rabbis
In September, the Reconstructionist movement adopted a policy that was as groundbreaking as it was controversial: Henceforth, the movement stated, it would ordain students in its rabbinical seminary who were in interfaith relationships. Now, the first signs of discontent are beginning to appear, as a Florida congregation prepares to vote on January 18 on dropping…
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Israel’s Virulent Housing Bias Runs Deep — and It’s Not Only Aimed at Arabs
AFULA, Isrsael – From her backyard deck in Yafia, an Arab village west of Nazareth, Iman Sharary, 53, pointed to a plot of land in the distance where her sons will build their homes. She would have preferred her children stay in Yafia, but with land at a premium in the village, she and her…
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In Chicago, Two Activist Davids Puncture Goliath’s Blue Shield
CHICAGO — It all started with a phone call. In early November 2014, Craig Futterman, a civil rights attorney and law professor at the University of Chicago Law School, heard his phone ring. The caller, a source within Chicago law enforcement, told Futterman about the existence of a dash-cam video showing a black teenager being…
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