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Islamophobic Film and Its Jewish Backers
The New York Police Department is caught up in a tangled spat with the city’s Muslim community and assorted liberal groups over counter-terrorism measures that seem to have crossed the line into rank anti-Muslim bigotry. The department’s chief spokesman has made matters worse by repeatedly offering explanations of police actions that turned out to be…
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Opinion More Adelson Cash Flows to Gingrich
The eyebrow-raising $10 million in donations to a pro-Newt Gingrich super PAC from billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, isn’t the only Adelson money flowing into the Gingrich cause. Federal filings on Tuesday revealed an additional $1 million in donations to Winning Our Future, the pro-Gingrich super PAC, from members of the…
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Opinion Following Ultra-Orthodox Money Trail
You’ve already heard about the wave of violence by ultra-Orthodox zealots in Israel: grown men spitting on and cursing terrified little girls trying to walk to school; harassing women who refuse to move to the back of public buses; stoning those buses, private cars and the police, and starting full-blown riots. But did you know…
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Opinion Rate the Anti-Semites
Be your own anti-Semitic hall monitor! In the wake of the recent debate over a biting cartoon aimed at Benjamin Netanyahu, Occupy Judaism’s resident technologist, Dan Sieradski has created antisemiticornot. It’s a tongue-in-cheek site that allows users to post and vote on figures, organizations or concepts that may or may not be considered anti-Semitic. According…
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Opinion Newt Faces Tough Road Ahead
Newt Gingrich is in for a tough few weeks. Following a decisive loss to Mitt Romney in Florida, Gingrich will move through a number of contests that appear to favor Romney before Super Tuesday, on March 6, analysts say. Next up for the Republicans is Nevada, which will hold its caucuses on February 4. Romney…
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Opinion Florida Exit Polls Suggest Fewer Jews Vote GOP
Florida’s Jewish voters were in the crosshairs of Republican efforts to peel support away from President Obama in the general election. Exit polls from the Republican primary suggest that the strategy may not be working particularly well. According to polls posted by Fox News, only 1% of voters in today’s Republican primary identified themselves as…
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Opinion Obama’s Jewish Mega-Bundlers
Disclosures released today by the Obama campaign cite more prominent Jews among Obama’s top fundraisers. Prominent additions in the latest quarterly report include American Council for World Jewry chair Jack Rosen and former chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Alan Solow. The Forward reported in December that Obama had lost…
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Opinion Gingrich: Romney Made Survivors Eat Treyf!
Mitt Romney forced Holocaust survivors to eat non-Kosher food, a Gingrich robocall claimed today. The claim ties longstanding criticism over a 2003 veto Romney signed as Massachusetts governor to the specter of mistreated Holocaust survivors in an 11th-hour bid for south Florida’s Jewish vote. The call, available here, references a bill Romney vetoed as governor…
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Opinion The Super Schlep
The Great Schlep is back. That’s the campaign that, in 2008, enlisted comedian Sarah Silverman to guilt young Jews into traveling to Florida to convince their grandparents to vote for Barack Obama. Now, the organization that ran the Great Schlep has reorganized for the 2012 campaign — this time as a super PAC. “If Barack…
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Opinion Who the !?@# Is Saul Alinsky?!
“Republicans have created this completely fictional president. His name is Barack X. And he is an Islamo-Socialist-Revolutionary who is coming for your guns, raising your taxes, slashing the military, apologizing to other countries, and taking his cues from Europe, or worse yet…Saul Alinsky!” — Bill Maher (note: contains explicit language; in other words, this is…
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Opinion Echoes of U.S. Racism in Israel
An easy case followed by a harder case: At the beginning January, Israel’s Channel 2 reported that it had encountered in the town of Kiryat Malachi what used to be called here in the United States a “restrictive covenant.” Such a covenant is a legal device that enables the seller (or renter) of real estate…
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