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Community Is Activism Always The Answer?
Not long ago I had to get an MRI for a condition that might have been serious. It wasn’t; I’m fine. But I didn’t know that when I pulled up to the radiology building and saw it was on Activist Street. A message, I wondered, for someone facing mortality? If time is limited, then I…
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Fast Forward Jon Stewart: Don’t Boycott Trump’s White House Correspondents’s Dinner
Jon Stewart’s comedy often cuts through Washington, D.C.’s bonhomie and niceties, but he’s defending one inside-the-Beltway ritual, the White House correspondents’ dinner. Some have demanded that reporters boycott over President Donald Trump’s treatment of the press, but Stewart says he disagrees. “I think it’ll be entertaining,” the ex-Comedy Central host told TMZ on Monday. “The…
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Breaking News Trump: Settlements Aren’t Good for Peace
(JTA) — President Donald Trump said the expansion of Israeli settlements does not positively impact efforts to reach peace between Israel and the Palestinians, but added he did not wish to condemn the Jewish state. Trump spoke about the peace process during an interview with Israel Hayom. The daily on Friday published a Hebrew-language translation…
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Community Jewish Groups Headline Pro-Trump NYC Rally
Jews Choose Trump, Zionists for Trump, Americans for a Safe Israel, and the Jewish Defense League were among the groups who participated in a peaceful, patriotic rally was held this Sunday, February 5th, honoring our president Donald Trump and in solidarity for support of the electoral college process and pride in America. Local Jewish politicians…
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Breaking News WATCH: Jake Tapper’s Best Moments (So Far) Under Trump
Jake Tapper, CNN’s chief political correspondent, has not been pulling his punches since President Donald Trump and his aides took the White House. With his sharp retorts, to-the-point fact checks and cutting humor, the reporter has emerged as something of a champion for a news media – and a certain idea of truth – that’s been…
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Community Is Donald Trump a Closet Leftist?
Let’s face it: social conservatives always had suspicions about President Donald Trump. They looked at his marital history, his media persona, his vulgarity — and they concluded that Donald Trump was not a true conservative. In fact, some of the strongest and enduring critiques of him have come from social conservatives, such as David Brooks…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Protesting Rabbis Get Arrested on Purpose Outside Trump Hotel
Eighteen rabbis were arrested on Monday night after sitting down in the street in front of New York’s Trump International Hotel in protest against President Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries. Accompanied by hundreds of protesters, the march started on the Upper West Side and wended its way to the…
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Fast Forward Seth Klarman, the New Jewish Warren Buffet, Bearish on Trump
Seth Klarman, the billionaire financier whose advice books sell for thousands of dollars on the Internet, is here to the burst the bubble of his fellow investors: Don’t get your hopes up about a Trump economic boom. Most concerning for Klarman is the new president’s personality. “The erratic tendencies and overconfidence in his own wisdom…
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