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Community How I’m Turning Tu B’Shvat Into A Subversive Political Act
I used to think of Tu B’Shvat, the Jewish “new year” for trees, as somewhere between a children’s holiday and a faux holiday. Give a child some dirt in a plastic cup, plant a seed, and move on. Call the Jewish National Fund, plant a tree in Israel in someone’s honor, and don’t think about…
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Community Why We Must Fight Trump’s Repugnant Immigration Policies
O, let America be America again The land that never has been yet And yet must be—the land where every man is free. -Langston Hughes I owe my life to a singular act of courage. In September of 1910, Wolf Nistel, my great grandfather and namesake, made his way from Turka—a rural Ukranian village—to Antwerp….
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Breaking News WATCH: Shia LaBeouf Shouts Down White Supremacist Sloganeer
Actor and performance artist Shia LaBeouf shouted down a man espousing white supremacist doctrine in an altercation that was live streamed as part of a protest art piece against President Donald Trump over the weekend. An unnamed man wearing a grey hat and a black backpack interrupted a group chant led by LaBeouf to face…
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Fast Forward Marching on Shabbat? Rabbi’s Wife Offers This Prayer
Protesters, looking for a prayer to carry with you this weekend? The Glittery Rebbetzin, aka JoJo Jacobson, has one for you. In a post to the liberal Jewschool, Jacobson wrote: “I have heard the argument made that everything we are protesting against has already come to pass, and it’s pointless to go and wear out…
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News Religious Right: Trump is ‘King Cyrus’ Freeing the Jews
Which Biblical figure is Donald Trump like? For some on the religious right, the new president has strong parallels to Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who freed the Jews and let them rebuild their temple in Jerusalem. “He came in, this king, as a secular ruler and decreed for the building of the house…
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Breaking News Soros: Trump Is a ‘Would-Be Dictator’ Destined to Fail
(JTA) — Billionaire George Soros called Donald Trump a “would-be dictator” who is “going to fail.” On the eve of Trump’s inauguration in Washington, Soros on Thursday said during a panel discussion in Davos, Switzerland, that President-elect Trump was “gearing up for a trade war,” which would have “a very far-reaching effect in Europe and…
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Breaking News Israeli Minister: We’re Praying for ‘Serious, Courageous’ and Responsible President Trump
(JTA) – Yuval Steinitz, a senior Israeli cabinet minister, said Israel was “praying” that President-elect Donald Trump will be responsible, courageous and serious. Steinitz, Israel’s energy and infrastructures minister, who is considered to be a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said in an interview on Army Radio Friday that “we are all praying…
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News George Soros: Trump Will Fail, EU Will Survive
Hungarian-born Jewish billionaire George Soros predicted Thursday that Donald Trump will fail at his presidency and unleash uncertainty on markets. “I personally am convinced that he’s going to fail,” Soros said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Not because of people like me who would like him to fail, but because the ideas…
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