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 WATCH: Jake Tapper’s Best Moments (So Far) Under Trump
Jake Tapper, CNN’s chief political correspondent, has not been pulling his punches since President Donald Trump and his aides took the White House. With his sharp retorts, to-the-point fact checks and cutting humor, the reporter has emerged as something of a champion for a news media – and a certain idea of truth – that’s been…
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Community Is Donald Trump a Closet Leftist?
Let’s face it: social conservatives always had suspicions about President Donald Trump. They looked at his marital history, his media persona, his vulgarity — and they concluded that Donald Trump was not a true conservative. In fact, some of the strongest and enduring critiques of him have come from social conservatives, such as David Brooks…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Protesting Rabbis Get Arrested on Purpose Outside Trump Hotel
Eighteen rabbis were arrested on Monday night after sitting down in the street in front of New York’s Trump International Hotel in protest against President Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries. Accompanied by hundreds of protesters, the march started on the Upper West Side and wended its way to the…
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Fast Forward Seth Klarman, the New Jewish Warren Buffet, Bearish on Trump
Seth Klarman, the billionaire financier whose advice books sell for thousands of dollars on the Internet, is here to the burst the bubble of his fellow investors: Don’t get your hopes up about a Trump economic boom. Most concerning for Klarman is the new president’s personality. “The erratic tendencies and overconfidence in his own wisdom…
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Fast Forward Reform Rabbis Slam Betsy DeVos for ‘Christian’ Education Plan
The group representing Reform Jewish rabbis in the U.S. came out against the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education in a statement that raised concerns about her positions on gay rights, and her support for school vouchers. “Ms. DeVos has declared specifically Christian goals for her approach to diverting funding from public to…
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Opinion On My Morning Walk, Chalk Messages Mark Path of Hope for Immigrants to City College
Every morning when I walk my son Teddy to the subway station at the corner of St. Nicholas Avenue and 145th Street in our Hamilton Heights neighborhood in Harlem, we pass a sea of young men and woman making their way from the trains toward City College. Founded as the Free Academy of the City…
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News ‘Lost Tribe’ Separatists In Nigeria Celebrate Trump’s Victory
On the weekend of President Trump’s inauguration, hundreds took to the street to march. They blocked traffic, sang songs and danced. In the crowd, scores of them wore yarmulkes and tallitot as they waved Israeli flags. This was not a scene from a major American city — where supporters and protestors similarly thronged the streets….
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Fast Forward Trump Says Settlement Expansion ‘May Not Help’ Peace
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Settlement expansion “may not be helpful” in achieving peace, the Trump administration said, its first pronouncement on an issue that has for decades confounded U.S.-Israel relations. The White House announcement Thursday evening comes a week after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced major settlement building initiatives in the West Bank and eastern…
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