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Fast Forward Was Stephen Miller’s Republican Family Shunned By Their Liberal California Synagogue?
Stephen Miller, the aide to President Donald Trump who helped create his “Muslim ban” and defended it on television, comes from a Republican family at odds with their fellow congregants and neighbors in liberal southern California. Miller attended Hebrew school at the Santa Monica Synagogue, graduating in 2001. The Hollywood Reporter recently spoke with a…
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Fast Forward White Nationalist May Rebuild Neo-Nazi Church — And Dedicate It To Trump
The white nationalist whose church was burned to the ground in North Dakota said he has hopes of rebuilding the structure — and naming it after President Trump. “If they want to keep pushing I just may very well retain the lot and build a building there and still make The President Donald J. Trump…
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Fast Forward Why Trump’s Favorite ‘Prosperity Pastor’ Loves Passover
Paula White, a Florida televangelist and spiritual advisor to President Trump, is wishing her followers a meaningful Passover. “It is part of your spiritual heritage that God designed as His own Holy Days with specific instruction given for their observance,” White wrote in a public letter to followers. “He set the divine appointment, Passover, with…
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Fast Forward Did Chuck Schumer Shout Down Trump Voter At Swanky Manhattan Restaurant?
Did Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Sunday night dinner on Manhattan’s Upper East Side degenerate into a shouting match with an acquaintance who admitted voting for Donald Trump? The New York gossip pages suggested that the Hilary Paley Byers, the daughter of Jewish CBS founder William S. Paley, started sparring with Schumer as they both dined at…
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Fast Forward Farrakhan Warns Trump About Jared Kushner And ‘Jewish Control’
Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan urged President Trump to “extricate” himself from perceived Jewish influence in the White House — starting with Jared Kushner. “Ask any Jew, even your son-in-law, America is never first, Israel is always first,” Farrakhan said, referencing Jared Kushner. “Mr. Trump, you have to extricate yourself from being controlled…
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Fast Forward Trump Sent 12 FBI Agents To Israel In JCC Bomb Threat Case
President Trump sent 12 FBI investigators from the agency’s cybercrime unit to Israel to assist in the investigation of the Israeli-American teen arrested for making bomb threats at American Jewish institutions, Haaretz reported. Police sources attributed the arrest to Trump’s pressure on the FBI to pursue the matter, according to Haaretz. The teen, living in…
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Breaking News House Dems Urge Trump To Preserve ‘Two States’
WASHINGTON (JTA) – The overwhelming majority of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives urged President Donald Trump to reaffirm the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as U.S. policy. With 187 of 193 voting Democrats signing, the letter to Trump released Friday is a pointed reminder of how divided the parties remain on how…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Church Burns To The Ground In North Dakota
A 108-year-old church recently bought by white nationalist Craig Cobb burned to the ground Wednesday in the rural town of Nome in North Dakota, the Bismarck Tribune reported. Cobb bought the structure in February and said he planned on dedicating it to a white supremacist group and naming it after President Donald Trump. Cobb had…
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