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Opinion Is Hillary Clinton The Jewish Scapegoat Of Our Time?
Like the overwhelming majority of Jewish women, I voted for Hillary Clinton. Her experience and competence as a Senator and Secretary of State, and then as a career politician who nonetheless seemed to believe in public service and democratic values earned my support. I was drawn to her lifelong insistence that women’s rights are human…
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Fast Forward Calling Zionists ‘Cockroaches’ Isn’t Racist, Politician Claims
A Georgia city council candidate defended himself against allegations of anti-Semitism last week, saying that his tweets describing Zionists as “cockroaches” and calls for Jews to be removed from the White House do not make him racist. “I’m absolutely not racist in the very least,” Joe Briggs told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Briggs, a 59-year-old engineer…
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Fast Forward Barking Dog Saves Paris Jewish Family From Torched Apartment
(JTA) — A Jewish family in suburban Paris has their dog to thank for their escape from a fire that they believe may have been started outside their home by an Islamist neighbor, an anti-racism group said. The family was awakened after midnight on Friday night by the dog’s insistent barking to discover that their front door was…
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News The Holocaust Activist Who’s Warning Poland — About Danger Posed By Jews
In Poland these days, the head of the country’s highest-profile Holocaust remembrance group is warning Poles that attacks on their country are coming from the “leftist Jewish media.” He says that the stories of Poles who actually helped Jews during World War II were not told until he arrived, despite decades of work in this…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Surge: ADL Study
(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League reported that anti-Semitic incidents in the first nine months of 2017 have risen 67 percent since the same period last year. If the current pace holds, they will nearly double the number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2015. There was also a 92 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in New York…
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News When Martin Luther Accused The Jews Of Eating Satan’s S—-
Exactly five centuries ago, Martin Luther sparked what would become the Protestant Reformation by nailing a list of criticisms on a church door in Germany. Luther decried what he saw as abusive and corrupt practices in the Roman Catholic church — but reserved a very special kind of hatred for Jews, whom he branded an…
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Fast Forward NYC Councilman Cries Anti-Semitism In Affordable Housing Fight
The crisis over the Broadway Triangle continued this week, with opposing sides exchanging barbs ahead of a major zoning vote. A group of activists called for Councilman David Greenfield, who supports a major development in the Triangle, to recuse himself from the vote in a letter sent this week. They cite his close ties to…
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Fast Forward Upper East Side Synagogue Vandalized With Swastika
Three men spray-painted a large pink swastika on the door of an Upper East Side synagogue early Wednesday morning. The vandals were recorded on security cameras as they spray-painted Sutton Place Synagogue, a congregation at 225 East 51 Street, DNAinfo reported. The video shows one of the men also painting a swastika on the door…
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