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Community Rabbis Urge President Trump To “Act Decisively” In Syria
Dear President Trump, We write to you with angst just days before the Passover holiday when the Jews escaped the oppressive tyranny of Pharaoh in Egypt. The Assad regime in Syria appears to have conducted a nerve gas attack against Syrian civilians yesterday. At least 58 civilians have been killed in the attack, marking the…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner’s Ever-Expanding White House Job Now Includes Criminal Justice Reform
Among his many titles, Jared Kushner has been charged with one more: talking out criminal justice reform with lawmakers. BuzzFeed reports that the president’s son-in-law is discussing legislation to reformm criminal justice with Sens. Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, and Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat Thursday. Utah Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican, joined the meeting…
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Fast Forward Was Stephen Miller’s Republican Family Shunned By Their Liberal California Synagogue?
Stephen Miller, the aide to President Donald Trump who helped create his “Muslim ban” and defended it on television, comes from a Republican family at odds with their fellow congregants and neighbors in liberal southern California. Miller attended Hebrew school at the Santa Monica Synagogue, graduating in 2001. The Hollywood Reporter recently spoke with a…
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Fast Forward White Nationalist May Rebuild Neo-Nazi Church — And Dedicate It To Trump
The white nationalist whose church was burned to the ground in North Dakota said he has hopes of rebuilding the structure — and naming it after President Trump. “If they want to keep pushing I just may very well retain the lot and build a building there and still make The President Donald J. Trump…
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Fast Forward Why Trump’s Favorite ‘Prosperity Pastor’ Loves Passover
Paula White, a Florida televangelist and spiritual advisor to President Trump, is wishing her followers a meaningful Passover. “It is part of your spiritual heritage that God designed as His own Holy Days with specific instruction given for their observance,” White wrote in a public letter to followers. “He set the divine appointment, Passover, with…
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Fast Forward Did Chuck Schumer Shout Down Trump Voter At Swanky Manhattan Restaurant?
Did Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Sunday night dinner on Manhattan’s Upper East Side degenerate into a shouting match with an acquaintance who admitted voting for Donald Trump? The New York gossip pages suggested that the Hilary Paley Byers, the daughter of Jewish CBS founder William S. Paley, started sparring with Schumer as they both dined at…
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Fast Forward Farrakhan Warns Trump About Jared Kushner And ‘Jewish Control’
Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan urged President Trump to “extricate” himself from perceived Jewish influence in the White House — starting with Jared Kushner. “Ask any Jew, even your son-in-law, America is never first, Israel is always first,” Farrakhan said, referencing Jared Kushner. “Mr. Trump, you have to extricate yourself from being controlled…
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Fast Forward Trump Sent 12 FBI Agents To Israel In JCC Bomb Threat Case
President Trump sent 12 FBI investigators from the agency’s cybercrime unit to Israel to assist in the investigation of the Israeli-American teen arrested for making bomb threats at American Jewish institutions, Haaretz reported. Police sources attributed the arrest to Trump’s pressure on the FBI to pursue the matter, according to Haaretz. The teen, living in…
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