This is the Forward’s coverage of U.S. president Donald Trump and his relationship to the Jewish community.
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News Trump flags suddenly sprouted in Borough Park. Why now?
A local rabble rouser had a request for President Donald Trump, which he tapped out and sent into the universe through Twitter on Wednesday. “We are asking for President Trump to interfere with Gov Cuomo’s hateful decision of tough lockdown on our schools and places of worship,” tweeted city council candidate Heshy Tischler. “#Cuomohatesjews.” In…
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News As seniors turn against Trump, are old Florida Jews among them?
So many seniors make their home in Florida that, for years, comedians have referred to the state as “God’s waiting room.” What every pollster’s mind these days is this: Who are they waiting to vote for? An estimated 29% of the state’s nine million voters are over 65, and recent polls suggest that support for…
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News At vice presidential debate, Pence invokes ‘Jewish grandchildren’ in defense of Trump
During Wednesday night’s Vice Presidential debate between Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence, one moment in particular caught the attention of Jewish viewers. Asked about President Trump’s history of obfuscation when asked to decry white nationalists and white supremacists, Pence invoked the president’s Jewish grandchildren in his defense. “Your concern that he doesn’t…
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Culture Did the Trump White House really echo ‘Triumph of the Will’?
In film theory, there’s something called the Kuleshov Effect, which teaches that juxtaposing images in sequence can suggest completely different reads of a shot. The typical example is an image of a blank-faced man placed alongside an image of a baby in a casket, a pairing that makes viewers interpret the man’s expression as sad…
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News Did a maskless, post-hospital Trump violate Jewish medical ethics?
Hero or heel? On the one hand, there was President Trump, COVID-19-stricken, but waving to his adoring fans from inside a black limousine on Sunday, a photo-op joyride as a break in his three-day stay at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Returning to the White House a day later, he proclaimed in a Tweet…
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Community Jewish leaders are running out of time to stand up to Donald Trump
In early 2017 and 2018, some of us warned about the clear-for-all-to-see dangers of President Donald Trump to the values and norms that keep Jews and other minorities safe in this nation. We asked other Jewish leaders to speak out on behalf of their organizations and the community about what was happening to our democracy….
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Fast Forward Rabbis pray at Western Wall for Trump’s recovery
(JTA) — Leading Israeli rabbis prayed at the Western Wall for President Donald Trump’s recovery from the coronavirus. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, the rabbi of the Western Wall, recited a traditional Jewish prayer for healing on Trump’s behalf on Monday morning, days after the American president announced he had contracted the virus. Israel’s two chief rabbis…
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Fast Forward Trump wondered if he was “going out” like Jewish businessman friend who died of COVID-19
Donald Trump wondered on his way to Walter Reed Medical Center Friday whether he was “going out” like a Syrian-Jewish businessman friend who died of COVID-19 in April. The question highlights the likely severity of Trump’s case of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, even as he has sought to project strength to his…
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