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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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Fast Forward Lawyer Lisa Bloom Decries ‘White Supremacist’ Trump For Affirmative Action Move
A prominent civil rights lawyer decried President Trump’s move to investigate and challenge affirmative action at college campuses, describing him as a white supremacist using tax dollars to “defend white rights.” “Trump is exactly the white supremacist he showed himself to be during the campaign,” Lisa Bloom, a prominent Los Angeles civil rights attorney, wrote…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Stephen Miller Uses First Briefing To Argue Over The Statue Of Liberty
Presidential aide Stephen Miller, who despite his Jewish heritage has been repeatedly praised by former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke for his policy views, capped off his first appearance at the podium in the White House Briefing Room by getting in a long argument with CNN’s Jim Acosta about the Statue of Liberty and “cosmopolitan…
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Yiddish World Faith Leaders and Doctors Disrupt the Senate For the Sake of Health Insurance
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. I stood, legs apart and face to the wall, in the Capitol Police Vehicle Maintenance Division. In other words, a garage. And I thought: I want to shake the hand of the person who invented plastic zip ties. They’re probably doing extremely well for themselves. But let’s…
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Fast Forward LGBTQ Jews Condemn Trump’s ‘Despicable’ Transgender Ban
Leaders of Jewish LGBTQ organizations slammed President Trump’s decision to ban transgender people from serving in the military as a “despicable” step back for equal rights. Trump shocked the nation by unexpectedly revealing the new policy, which will affect the estimated 6,000 transgender individuals now employed by the armed forces. After consultation with my Generals…
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Fast Forward Trump’s Lawyer Blames Secret Service For Allowing Trump Jr. Meeting With Russians
Jay Sekulow, a Messianic Jewish lawyer with a history of promoting Christian right causes in the U.S. and around the world, blamed the Secret Service for allowing the meeting between Donald Trump, Jr., and a Russian lawyer to take place on news programs on Sunday. Sekulow is working on Donald Trump’s private legal team, and…
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Fast Forward WaPo Investigation Finds Worker Protections Wanting In Ivanka’s Factories
“The time to change the narrative around women and work once and for all is long overdue; in fact, it’s become my life’s mission,” Ivanka Trump wrote in her book “Women Who Work.” While Trump works on the “narrative,” the thousands of women in Bangladesh, Indonesia and China who make garments for her eponymous clothing…
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Fast Forward Barney Frank’s final warning on Israel: ‘America’s effort should be to support the opposition to Netanyahu’
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Fast Forward Anti-Israel Republican Thomas Massie ousted from Congress as Trump endorsee wins primary