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Donald Trump Gets Clobbered on Israel by GOP Rivals
After appearing only as an extra in the nine previous engagements, Israel took center stage at the Republican debate Houston on Thursday night. Cast for the first time in a leading role, Israel served as a litmus test to ascertain the devotion of the GOP candidates to cherished conservative principles but mainly as a baseball…
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Arizona Rabbi Enlists ACLU To Quash Mayor’s Town Hall Prayer Habit
Rabbi Adele Plotkin wants the mayor of Chino Valley, Arizona to stop praying — at town council meetings. Plotkin, 66, of Congregation Beit Torah, contacted the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona about Mayor Chris Marley’s practice of reciting a prayer in the name of Jesus to open the meetings. “It’s where you are that…
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Warsaw Ghetto Memorial to Righteous Gentiles Hits New Snag
A new snag has hit a controversial plan to build a memorial on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto to honor Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust. In a February 22 email to the New York philanthropist funding the project, sculptor Dani Karavan said he would not accept a commission to create the memorial…
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Meet the College Student Who Got Bernie Sanders To Open Up About Being Jewish
It’s no secret that Bernie Sanders has been a bit reluctant to explicitly discuss his Jewish identity during his presidential campaign. So it jumped out at us when University of Chicago student Chelsea Fine got him to open up a bit on Thursday night at a nationally televised town hall session on MSNBC. To the…
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B&H Photo Accused of Anti-Latino Discrimination — Segregated Bathrooms for Whites
The federal government is charging the Hasidic-owned New York electronics store B&H Photo & Electronics with discriminating against its Hispanic warehouse workers — including separate bathrooms. Hispanic workers at the company’s Brooklyn warehouse are forced to use dirty, often broken restrooms, while white workers have access to “superior” toilets, according to the complaint U.S. Department of…
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Reform Programs Aims To Spark ‘Dialogue Not Debate’ on Israel
Reform Rabbis in America scratching their heads over how to handle the Israel debates roiling their synagogues will soon get some guidance. The Central Conference of American Rabbis, the largest American rabbinic organization, is creating a program to aimed to foster civil discourse in Reform congregations. Steven Fox, the chief executive of CCAR, described the…
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Can Montreal Hasidic School Pupils Be Jolted Into Modernity?
At five o’clock in the afternoon, the lights are still on at an elementary school in Montreal. The school looks like any other school. It is a four-story red-brick building with a playground in the front and a parking lot in the back. A curtain in a third-floor window moves aside, and a little boy…
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Will Israel’s Plan To Dismantle Iconic Broadcasting Agency Deal Blow to Press Freedom?
The British have their treasured BBC. In the United States it’s NPR and PBS. In Germany it’s ARD. At various points, all these public media pillars have been accused of bias from one side or another of the political spectrum. But none has ever faced the prospect of actually being dismantled. That is the reality…
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Uganda Rabbi Wins Opposition Seat in Parliament as Authoritarian Leader Clings to Power
Far from political discussions about Bernie Sanders and the meaning of secular Jewish socialism, Jewish political history has just been made — in Uganda. An African Jew, and chief rabbi, no less, has just won a parliamentary seat, a first for the country. On February 19, Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, the spiritual leader of the century-old…
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Countries Across the Globe Kvell for Bernie on Facebook – But Not Israel
Bernie Sanders’ campaign issued a message of multicultural unity last week, posting graphics on social media that read, “Not me, us,” in 14 different languages. Facebook users generally responded positively to the posts, which in each language feature a silhouette of Sanders — fist raised — comprising smaller silhouettes of various shapes and colors. Israelis,…
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Wave of Violence Turns West Bank Supermarket From ‘Model of Coexistence’ Into Place of Fear
On a recent Sunday afternoon at a Rami Levy supermarket in the West Bank, an Israeli soldier patrolled next to a rack of toothpaste, on a two-for-one sale. Outside, Israeli and Palestinian customers walked through a new black metal detector on their way in; it was installed just an hour before. Rami Levy, the founder…
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