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 Was Trump Appointed By God?
Was Donald J. Trump appointed by God? As the President-elect would say, some people are asking. When one starts typing “Trump appointed” into Google, one of the first suggestions is “Trump appointed by god”. Contrary to popular query, Trump was affirmed by the U.S. Electoral College, not God, with 304 electoral votes on December 19,…
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Fast Forward Former Obama Speechwriter Creates Anti-Trump Company
Three former staffers to President Barack Obama have created a company to counter Donald Trump with a podcast and updates that bypass traditional media to reach out to their audience directly. Their site is called “Crooked Media,” a wink at Trump’s vilification of the press. One founder is former Obama and Hillary Clinton speechwriter Jon…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner’s Friend Picked by Donald Trump as Assistant
(JTA) — A Jewish real estate developer who is friends with Jared Kushner reportedly is joining Donald Trump’s administration as assistant to the president. Reed Cordish, a partner at his family’s real estate and entertainment firm, The Cordish Companies, co-hosted a fundraiser for Trump’s presidential campaign in October, according to Jewish Insider, which first reported on Cordish…
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Culture How My Jewish Working Class Background Taught Me About Donald Trump
We live in a time of easy slogans and overly rigid categories. Since the election, countless pundits and friends have told me that I need to better understand white working class America. I’m now considered a member of the liberal media elite, or however you want to call someone who’s published a novel, earned a…
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Culture Why We Need a Million Jew March
My fellow Jews! Our existence in America has never been in greater peril. Anti-Semitic clouds gather over the land like never before. Whether or not you are fervently Zionist, skeptically Zionist, Zi-curious, believe in a two-state solution, a seven-percent solution, a saline solution, anything but a final solution, really, you must protest the neo-Nazi menace!…
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Culture How Making Art Will Still Matter in Trump’s America
My sons called after the result of the election was announced. They were distraught and confused. I told them what I told myself: Take a short time to mourn, then get active. Join marches. Support organizations that will come under fire. Help people whose lives will be further imperiled by a frankly racist and xenophobic…
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Culture My Grandparents Thought They Were Leaving Us a Better World
I keep thinking of my maternal grandmother. She graduated from Wellesley in 1936, as did my paternal grandmother. Two Jewish women went to elite women’s colleges in the 1930s, my mom following in 1964. Both my aunts went there too. The first woman in my immediate family not to go to Wellesley, I broke the…
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Culture How Donald Trump’s Election Made Me Ill — Literally
The night our country went to hell, I was alone. Well, not at first. I’d been watching the returns on my couch with a college friend, a gay first-generation American who teaches art history at an Ivy League university (in other words, a repulsive member of the coastal elite like most people I know). “I’m…
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