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  Roy Cohn and the Shocking Jewish Mentorship That Created Donald Trump

  Lurking behind the obvious query of how in the world Donald Trump became an actual candidate for the presidency of the United States, there’s a more basic question: Where in the world did this man come from? How did he become the walking caricature that he is today? One answer that’s frequently given is his…

  By Lana Adler

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  Hillary Clinton Made a Huge Mistake at the Debate. I Say That as an Anti-Trump Republican.

  The second presidential debate was supposed to be a thrilling cage match between the two sides, framed by a half dozen of Bill Clinton’s accusers sitting in prime seats at the Washington University event. But from the moment Hillary Clinton walked on stage and made a point of refusing to shake Donald Trump’s hand, she…

  By Bethany Mandel Oct 10, 2016 | 3 min read
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  Why ‘Success’ of Deadly Jerusalem Terror Attack Could Inspire Flood of Copy Cat Killers

  The Palestinian wave of lone-wolf terrorism that began a year ago has continued intermittently into the current Jewish holiday season. When a terrorist can get his hands on a gun, as happened Sunday near Jerusalem’s Ammunition Hill, that will always be the preferred option, not a stabbing or a car-ramming that usually cause fewer casualties….

  By Amos Harel (Haaretz) Oct 10, 2016 | 3 min read

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  Did ‘Stalker’ Donald Trump Somehow Keep Himself in Race by Lashing Out at Hillary Clinton?

  Donald Trump seemed to be physically stalking Hillary Clinton on stage at their debate at Washington University in St. Louis on Sunday night. He kept on sniffing into his microphone, grating the ears of viewers throughout the world. He disregarded facts and ignored evidence, to put it mildly, which is to say he often lied…

  By Chemi Shalev (Haaretz) Oct 10, 2016 | 3 min read
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  To Ensure Israel’s Security, I Served in the IDF — and Now I’m Volunteering for Hillary

  The two places in the world that I consider home are Kibbutz Alumim — a brief stroll from the Gaza border — and Columbus, Ohio. Much of the time, and for mostly the wrong reasons, the Gaza border region is more of the geopolitical hotspot. But as happens every four years, my original hometown of Columbus…

  By Adam Berman Oct 9, 2016 | 3 min read
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  My Problem With the Idea of a ‘Non-Zionist’ Synagogue

  Rabbi Brant Rosen started Tzedek Chicago last year, a synagogue that bills itself as “non-Zionist” (and whose name means “justice”). Rosen’s recent Rosh Hashanah sermon, circulated in blog form, calls for a “Judaism beyond nationalism,” one “openly acknowledging that the creation of an ethnic Jewish nation state in historic Palestine resulted in an injustice against…

  By Mira Sucharov Oct 9, 2016 | 3 min read
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  This Is What It’s Like To Be a Woman Running for President in Age of Donald Trump

  So this is what it’s like to be a woman running for President of the United States. You share the stage in last night’s second debate with a man who just days before was heard joking on tape that he forced himself on women, kissed them without permission and described their bodies in vulgar terms,…

  By Jane Eisner Oct 9, 2016 | 3 min read
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  This Jewish Teaching Should’ve Made the GOP Denounce Trump Ages Ago

  Since I was a young child growing up in a liberal Jewish household, I was taught that we Jews should oppose bias and discrimination and violent hatred against others because we know what it’s like when it happens to us. And because we know that it may only be a matter of time when we…

  By Jane Eisner Oct 9, 2016 | 2 min read
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  The Nobel Peace Prize Winner Who Infuriated Hitler

  Now that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner has been announced, let’s pause to remember the courageous, improbable and tragic story of Carl von Ossietzky, the 1936 laureate, a journalist and activist who exposed the Nazis’ clandestine rearmament of Germany and paid a terrible price for his defiance. Some years, the process of awarding the…

  By Jane Eisner Oct 6, 2016 | 3 min read
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  The Orthodox Case for Hillary Clinton — and Against Donald Trump

  The American Jewish Committee released the first national poll of Jewish voters earlier in September, and the news is good for Hillary Clinton: Jewish voters prefer her to Donald Trump by a 3–1 margin. But who are those Trump supporters? In Florida, a crucial swing state where the Jewish vote could actually tip the state…

  By Jay Michaelson Oct 6, 2016 | 4 min read
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  Jewish Extremists Want the Western Wall? I Say Let Them Have It.

  The latest campaign by leaders of the Reform movement of American Judaism to galvanize support for equal-access prayer at the Western Wall, known as Judaism’s “holiest site,” is a morally worthy goal. Given the remarkable degree of religious freedom enjoyed by the vast majority of Americans, an idea encoded in our very Constitution, it is…

  By Andy Bachman Oct 5, 2016 | 5 min read