This is the Forward’s coverage of U.S. president Donald Trump and his relationship to the Jewish community.
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The Schmooze Is Climate Change Real? Trump Turns To Man Who Compared Holocaust To C02 Reductions To Find Out
William Happer, an official on the National Security Council, will likely head up a proposed committee to explore whether or not climate change is a national security threat, The Washington Post reports. Happer is an atomic physicist who founded the CO2 Coalition, a group he calls, “The CO2 anti-defamation league,” explaining, “There is the CO2…
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The Schmooze Stephen Colbert Compares Trump Declaring National Emergency To A Bar Mitzvah Boy
What’s the difference between Donald Trump and a bar mitzvah boy? A bar mitzvah boy has studied, worked hard, and is finally mature enough to be treated as a man. Ba-dum tssss. On Monday night on “The Late Show,” the ever-affable Stephen Colbert gave the comic treatment to President Trump’s declaration of national emergency. Breaking…
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Opinion The Sick Double Standard In The Ilhan Omar Controversy
The following two things are true. First, Representative Ilhan Omar was wrong to tweet that the American government’s support of Israel is “all about the Benjamins.” Secondly, she’s being judged by a grotesque double standard. Her fiercest critics in Congress are guiltier of bigotry than she is. Omar’s tweet was inaccurate. Yes, of course, AIPAC’s…
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Letters Letter | Show Some Respect For Jewish Institutions
Twice last week, The Forward published articles accusing American Jewish institutions of “betraying us” and “selling us out.” The authors of these articles accuse institutions — specifically the American Jewish Committee and Anti-Defamation League — of abdicating their responsibility to the American Jewish community by supporting right-wing, racist leaders in Brazil, America, and Israel instead…
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Fast Forward President Trump Nods To Anti-Abortion Push At Prayer Breakfast
In comments at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday morning, President Trump nodded to his religiously conservative audience, promising he would “never let [them] down,” while signaling his support for proposed anti-abortion restrictions. “All children are made in the holy image of God. Every life is sacred and every soul is a precious gift from…
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Opinion When American Jewish Institutions Praise Trump, They Betray Us
On Tuesday night, President Trump addressed the nation in a speech that used Jews as cover for bigotry. After a speech filled with hate-mongering against immigrants and abortion, Trump led a rendition of “Happy Birthday” to the Holocaust and Pittsburgh shooting survivor Judah Samet, one of two Holocaust survivors in attendance. “We must never ignore…
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Opinion Trump Just Revealed He Can Change. Will Jews Listen?
On Tuesday, President Trump addressed the nation with his second State Of The Union address. His supporters loved the speech. His detractors hated it. Nancy Pelosi’s sarcastic-seeming clap became a gif. #waybackwednesday – oh yes that clap took me back to the teen years. She knows. And she knows that you know. And frankly she’s…
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Opinion Trump Isn’t Fighting Anti-Semitism. He’s Fanning Its Flames.
In last night’s State of the Union address, President Trump cited his accomplishments fighting anti-Semitism. He noted his rejection of the Iran nuclear accord and his move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. He also brought two Holocaust survivors to the address, one of whom narrowly escaped the Pittsburgh massacre in the Tree of Life…
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Culture ‘The Pitt’ tackled the trauma of the Tree of Life attack. Here’s how survivors of the synagogue shooting reacted to the episode.
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