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  If Only Donald Trump Had Answered The Jewish Reporter’s Question Like This

  Jake Turx: “What we are concerned about and what we haven’t really heard being addressed is an uptick in anti-Semitism and how the government is planning to take care of it. There’s been a report out that 48 bomb threats have been made against Jewish centers all across the country in the last couple of…

  By Jay Michaelson

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  How Trump Pleased Bibi Netanyahu And David Duke Alike

  What was noteworthy about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent summit with President Trump was that the leaders’ press conference had little to do with Israel. An Israeli reporter asked Trump the following question: “Mr. President, since your election campaign and even after your victory, we’ve seen a sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents across the United…

  By Shaul Magid Feb 19, 2017 | 5 min read
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  The Disturbing Alliance Between Zionists And Anti-Semites

  Between the congressional hearing for David Friedman, the visit of Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump’s refusal to address the rising tide of anti-Semitism, it’s been a tense time within the American Jewish community. For those on the right, Trump’s abandonment of the two-state solution, much like Friedman’s nomination, comes as an assurance that the new…

  By Suzanne Schneider Feb 19, 2017 | 4 min read

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  What A 19th-Century Educator Taught Me About Jewish Home Schooling In Age Of Betsy DeVos

  The contentious confirmation of Betsy DeVos as education secretary provoked a fair number of outraged folks to threaten to exercise their own right to school choice and home-school their children. Timing-wise, this announcement coincided with Orthodox Jewish parents starting to get their tuition bills for the next school year. One friend in New York City,…

  By Bethany Mandel Feb 19, 2017 | 4 min read
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  ADL Head: Speak Up Now Against Anti-Semitism, Mister President

  Let’s be clear at the outset: I do not believe that President Trump is an anti-Semite. When he talks lovingly about his Jewish daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren; when he refers to his many lifelong Jewish associates and friends and to the Jewish individuals he has appointed, there is no reason to question his sincerity. These…

  By Jonathan A. Greenblatt Feb 17, 2017 | 3 min read
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  Is Donald Trump’s Presidency Stillborn?

  New presidents routinely suffer through hiccups, flubs and faux pas. Remember when Barack Obama mishandled the Henry Louis Gates arrest not long after his election? The president publicly charged a Cambridge, Massachusetts, cop who arrested the esteemed African-American historian for disorderly conduct w for acting “stupidly.” It may have been true, but Obama’s ill-advised comment…

  By David Wallis Feb 17, 2017 | 4 min read
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  It’s Time For Republican Senators To Stand Up To Trump

  President Donald J. Trump is a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. A delusional narcissist. An orange-faced windbag. President Trump is a megalomaniac strongman with a relentless focus on dividing Americans. A sniveling coward and a pathological liar. President Trump bragged about preying upon women. He has shown complete disregard for common decency. He opts to mock…

  By Ken Chasen Feb 17, 2017 | 4 min read
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  What Will It Take For Donald Trump To Condemn Anti-Semitism?

  I take Donald Trump at his word that he is not an anti-Semite. But he is a serial enabler of anti-Semitism. During the presidential campaign, he hesitated before condemning neo-Nazi and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. He retweeted white supremacist postings. He hired the head of Breitbart News (a vehicle for “alt-right” white…

  By Kenneth Stern Feb 17, 2017 | 3 min read
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  Will The Real David Friedman Please Stand Up?

  In pre-Trump Washington, a man like David Friedman would never have come before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as a nominee to be ambassador to Israel. Not after he insulted, in writing, a sitting U.S. president; many members of the Senate, including the Democratic Minority leader; top officials of Jewish organizations, and the entire State…

  By Jane Eisner Feb 16, 2017 | 3 min read
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  Fox News’ Todd Starnes Redefines ‘The Deplorables’

  In his new book, The Deplorables’ Guide to Making America Great Again, Fox News host and radio talker Todd Starnes proudly declares himself an “irredeemable deplorable.” He writes (with characteristic humor and directness), “Mrs. Clinton matter-of-factly dubbed half of Donald Trump’s supporters a bunch of xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic bigots. I’m surprised she didn’t say we…

  By Marc Siegel Feb 16, 2017 | 2 min read
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  Unreality Show: Netanyahu And Trump Struggle With The Truth

  At a White House press conference yesterday, President Trump had the opportunity to lend his administration’s support to decades of American foreign policy in favor of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He didn’t. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, standing next to him, could have expressed his sympathy to American Jews experiencing heightened anti-Semitism…

  By Jane Eisner Feb 15, 2017 | 4 min read