This is the Forward’s coverage of U.S. president Donald Trump and his relationship to the Jewish community.
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Fast Forward Trump showed off photos of naked women at a shiva, report says
(JTA) — Donald Trump showed off photos of naked women posing with him on a yacht to mourners at the shiva for an associate’s mother, The New Yorker reported. Jennifer Weisselberg, the former daughter-in-law of the Trump organization’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, recalled the incident in a profile of Cyrus Vance Jr., the Manhattan…
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News Maggie Haberman on life after Trump and the one question she regrets not asking
Maggie Haberman had perhaps the hardest, and definitely the most scrutinized, job in journalism for the past four years. She owned the Trump beat for The New York Times. Haberman came to cover the White House with the 2016 election of President Donald Trump, after literally decades of covering the outspoken real-estate mogul from New…
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News Interview | Trump’s Middle East diplomat reflects on a sleepless tenure
David Schenker, who spent 19 months as an assistant secretary of state in the Trump administration, said in a recent interview that he is “very happy to be sleeping at night again.” “I didn’t sleep well — it was really a lot of responsibility and I was incredibly concerned with the well-being and safety of…
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Culture The CPAC stage was shaped like the Othala rune…which is what?
At the just-wrapped Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, headlining speaker Donald Trump made an inflammatory speech from a strange, zig-zagging stage. The speech, of course, drew attention, but it featured largely the kind of content we have grown to expect from the former president. The stage itself, however, drew anger for its shape —…
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Culture The obvious biblical beef with the Golden Trump
Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, two men were seen hauling a gold statue of Donald Trump through the Hyatt Regency Orlando lobby. Clergy, coreligionists and people with eyes for easy metaphors all asked: Where’s the beef? The golden calf jokes aren’t subtle and wry when they make it all obvious like that https://t.co/mNQzwjgGsh…
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News ‘We should have gotten 100 votes’: Jamie Raskin reflects on impeachment trial
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland said Thursday that he “felt a tremendous sense of history and responsibility” in leading the second impeachment case against former President Donald Trump, and still feels “we should have gotten 100 votes” to convict. But Raskin expressed no regrets about how the trial unfolded, and shifted focus to the group…
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Opinion Trump was acquitted — now the hard work of leaving him behind begins
The results of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial are in, and they are likely to satisfy nobody. As expected, the final tally of votes fell well short of the supermajority needed for a conviction, disappointing Democrats who had hoped to finally land a knockout blow on Trump’s future political prospects. Less expected was that seven…
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Culture In his impeachment defense, David Schoen picked a really weird hill to die on
David Schoen’s faith, from his phantom yarmulke to his Shabbat observance, has played no small role in Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial. And yet, it was his take on another religion that raised eyebrows on Friday. Observers think he picked a super strange hill to die on. While Schoen eschewed his kippah in a public…
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Fast Forward Muslim advisor to Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission resigns to protest ‘Zionist political agenda’
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