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News These Jewish Trump Supporters Aren’t Backing Down — Despite Growing Opposition
Supporting Donald Trump in the Jewish community can come at a steep price, admits Elise Freedman. During the presidential campaign ahead of last November’s election, the marketing professional from Charleston, South Carolina, campaigned enthusiastically for Trump, hanging signs on doorknobs in her city and posting pro-Trump memes on her Facebook page. After Trump stunned the…
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Fast Forward Trump Aide Gary Cohn Trashed Charlottesville Response In Long Island Bistro
President Trump’s top economic advisor publicly complained about his boss’s response to the white nationalist rally and ensuing violence in Charlottesville, Va. when dining with friends in Long Island, The Washington Post reported last week. Gary Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council, had been standing next to the president at a Trump Tower…
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Community An Easy Litmus Test For Monuments
Monuments are not mere markers of history; they are instruments of memory. Whom we choose to memorialize says a great deal about who we are as a people. Addressing Amherst College in 1963, President John F. Kennedy said: “A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces, but also by the men it…
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Opinion No, We Absolutely Should Not Make Friends With Nazis
The “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia left most Americans shocked, upset, and looking for answers. The most pressing issue at hand was certainly what is the correct response to neo-Nazis. While President Trump’s inability to condemn the white supremacists was clearly not the right response, another suggestion emerged from these pages suggesting that…
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Letters The ZOA Has Criticized President Trump Plenty
To the Letters Editor, The leftwing J Street’s Director of Communications has written a breathtakingly inaccurate and careless screed against ZOA, falsely claiming we are an “ultra partisan” group advocating for Trump which refuses to criticize him. Yet, your own newspaper’s Nathan Guttman verified this as a phony allegation by writing on May 15 an…
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Opinion The Hypocrisy Of The Jewish Left’s Response to Charlottesville
The anti-Trump left has become the great defender of Jews the world over. This is at least what Jewish progressives want you to believe. But if you look closely, the kind of thought policing coming from those corners clashes with the moral authority they claim to possess. In the preachy, Jew-shaming that has become all…
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Fast Forward Trump Adviser Gary Cohn Reportedly Considered Quitting After Charlottesville
(JTA) — Gary Cohn, a prominent Jewish member of President Donald Trump’s administration, considered resigning over Trump’s response to a far-right rally in Charlottesville, The New York Times reported. Cohn, the top economic adviser for Trump, drafted a letter of resignation, according to the report Friday. In an interview Thursday with the Financial Times, Cohn…
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Fast Forward Israel Can’t Protect All Jews, Diaspora Affairs Minister Admits
Amid rising fear in American Jewish communities due to the increased visibility of neo-Nazis and other anti-Semitic groups, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs minister admitted in an interview published Sunday that the Jewish state could only go so far to keep Jews safe. “We view ourselves as having a certain degree of responsibility for every Jew in…
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