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2024 Elections

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Politics Trump taps RFK Jr., whose anti-vaccine activism has included antisemitic comments, to lead Dept. of Health and Human Services
Kennedy has claimed that COVID was “ethnically targeted” to avoid Ashkenazi Jews, and has compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust
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Politics Trump AG nominee Matt Gaetz has left a trail of antisemitic comments
Gaetz voted against the Antisemitism Awareness Act because it rejected the Christian ‘gospel’ that Jews killed Jesus
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Politics Your complete guide to Trump’s Jewish advisers and pro-Israel cabinet
Trump's new cabinet will include Mike Huckabee, Marco Rubio, and other loyalists with strong pro-Israel stances
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Politics Trump’s first picks are die-hard Israel supporters, mocking the pro-Palestinian protest vote
Trump's first picks include Mike Huckabee, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Mike Waltz, Elise Stefanik and John Ratcliffe
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Politics Steve Witkoff, Trump’s golf buddy, appointed special envoy to the Middle East
Witkoff was by the former president's side in September when a would-be assassin took aim
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Politics Voters elected Hitler because they liked his fascist promise. Trump’s reelection repeats that history
The failures of a campaign run on the argument that Trump embodies authoritarian principles are telling, and tragic
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Politics Trump nominates Mike Huckabee, evangelical hardliner, as U.S. ambassador to Israel
Huckabee ‘loves Israel’ and ‘the people of Israel love him,’ Trump said in a statement
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Politics Trump picks Lee Zeldin, Jewish former congressman from Long Island, to head EPA
Zeldin would pursue “fair and swift deregulatory decisions,” the president-elect promised on social media
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Fast Forward Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements
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News School Israel trip turns ‘terrifying’ for LA students attacked by Israeli teens
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Culture Cardinals are Catholic, not Jewish — so why do they all wear yarmulkes?
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News Why Zohran Mamdani believes he’ll win over Jewish voters, as Israel critic surges to second behind Cuomo in NYC mayoral race
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Fast Forward A Jewish nonprofit may have accidentally caused Michigan to drop charges against pro-Palestinian activists
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Culture For Christian nationalists, Trump’s pope picture isn’t a joke
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Opinion Is Israel really going to reoccupy Gaza? Ask Trump
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Yiddish World A photo of my bubbe when Jewish stores still had Yiddish signs
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