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 Jewish GOP Lawmaker Walks Back Support For Trump On Charlottesville — A Bit
Congressman Lee Zeldin is the latest in a growing contingent of Jewish Republican political figures walking back their support for Trump. On CNN Friday morning Zeldin issued a more full-throated disagreement with the equivalence Trump drew on Tuesday between white supremacists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. Zeldin’s first statement on the matter backed Trump’s take….
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Life Why I’m Reading Holocaust Literature Today, In Trump’s America
My agnostic, Presbyterian-raised husband and I, a reform Jew, never had conflict between our outlooks on life. We had a Jewish wedding; we are raising our child as Jewish, too. But the election of Trump, surprisingly, highlighted one difference between us, one that I had never noticed before. To me, the Holocaust was still very…
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Opinion Will Jewish Megadonors Keep Enabling Trump After Charlottesville?
It’s bad enough for an American President to defend Nazis. It’s worse when Republican lawmakers – and American Jews – continue to support that President. I’m not talking about getting people to use stronger words of condemnation; I’m talking about deeds. And I’m not talking about nameless Trump supporters. It pains me to say it,…
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Opinion Trump Isn’t The Only One Lying About What Happened In Charlottesville
After alt-right demonstrations in Charlottesville turned into clashes led by Antifa, leading to an alt-right Nazi sympathizer driving a car into a group of counter-protesters, things were bad enough. As always, both sides of the political aisle have determined to make an awful situation worse. The big problem is that both Left and right now…
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Opinion What Growing Up Under Apartheid Taught Me About Trump’s ‘Fine People’
When I heard Donald Trump say in his Tuesday press conference that there were “fine people” among the marchers in Charlottesville, Virginia, who protested the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, it brought me back. I spent much of my childhood in the company of South African Jews. It was the…
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Opinion My Fellow Orthodox Jews: Admit You Were Wrong About Trump
For two years, I have been grappling with how to relate to those of my fellow Orthodox Jews who, for reasons utterly mystifying to me, cannot see Donald Trump for what he is. I first tried logic, I tried appeals to truth, then justice, then facts, then emotion. That last one was particularly painful. It…
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News Trump’s Delayed Condemnation Keeps White Supremacists Cheering Him On
President Donald Trump responded to the news of brawls at a white supremacist rally in Virginia by condemning violence “on many sides.” The language was oddly vague — and celebrated by his white nationalist base. “He didn’t attack us. He just said the nation should come together. Nothing specific against us,” wrote Andrew Anglin, the…
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Opinion Why Won’t Orthodox Condemn Trump’s Ties to White Supremacists After Charlottesville?
Over the past two days, we have been flooded with horrifying images of the largest white supremacist demonstration in decades. We’ve also been met with President Trump’s shameless failure to condemn the white supremacists. A president who has no qualms condemning journalists for doing their jobs, or retailers for not carrying his daughter’s handbags, could…
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