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Fast Forward AOC Tries To Shame Trump For Anti-Semitism Toward ‘Shifty Schiff’
(JTA) — New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused President Donald Trump of anti-Semitism for his attacks on Rep. Adam Schiff of California. “Understand that Trump is engaged in deliberate, atrocious, targeted antisemitism towards Chairman Schiff,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted with a retweet of an article in The Intercept suggesting that Trump’s attacks against Schiff come from the…
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Fast Forward An Orthodox Jewish Group Honored Rudy Giuliani’s ‘Florida Fixers,’ Now Part Of Impeachment Probe
The leader of a national Orthodox group has committed to reviewing the criteria for awards recipients after learning two recent honorees are wanted for questioning in the House’s impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. In March, National Council of Young Israel, an umbrella group for a network of Orthodox synagogues, awarded Lev Parnas and Igor…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner, With Mulvaney, Said To Guide Trump Impeachment Defense Strategy
Jared Kushner is one of two senior White House officials leading Donald Trump’s defense strategy against the growing impeachment inquiry, according to reports. Administration officials who spoke to CNN said that Kusher, one of Trump’s senior advisers as well as his son-in-law, is working alongside White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney in handling the…
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The Schmooze Ivanka Trump Says ‘The Force’ Is With Her. Luke Skywalker Begs to Differ.
It’s the kind of aspirational snapshot common on Instagram: a casually perfect-looking young mother poses in a casually perfect-looking living room. Her accessories: a tuxedoed husband and three charmingly oblivious children. She’s dressed to the nines, clearly ready to head out for the night, but the (carefully controlled) mess of Legos on her tasteful coffee…
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Fast Forward Adam Schiff Is Target Of Trumps’ Insults And Conspiracy Theories As Impeachment Inquiry Grows
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has emerged as Donald Trump’s main punching bag as the impeachment inquiry mounts, the Daily Beast reported. Trump called Schiff a “fraud” and a “lowlife” and suggested that Schiff had helped write the whistleblower complaint that led to public awareness of a call between Trump and the president of Ukraine in…
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Fast Forward Liberal Rabbis Join Trump’s High Holiday Call After 2-Year Absence
Rabbis from the Reform and Conservative Jewish movements will participate in the White House’s annual High Holidays conference call on Friday, a change in procedure after two years without participating. Rabbi Debra Newman Kamin, the president of the Rabbinical Assembly, the union of Conservative rabbis, told the Forward on Thursday that their board had taken…
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The Schmooze The Hot, Stressed, Ukrainian President Is Jewish — And Has A 10-Hour Netflix Series
Like every person with a mezuzah and a trachea, I believe that I speak for the Jews. And this is what I must say: a hot, confused Ukrainian man has become the linchpin in the Trump impeachment proceedings, and that man is a Jew. President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose profile I would swipe right on if…
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Fast Forward Trump Urged Ukraine’s Jewish President to Investigate Biden’s Son
President Trump pressured Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky several times to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, The Wall Street Journal reported. In a July phone call, Trump asked Zelensky, a Jewish former comedian who won the presidency in April, to work with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to learn if Biden, when he was…
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