This is the Forward’s coverage of U.S. president Donald Trump and his relationship to the Jewish community.
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Culture How Hitler Changed The Bible — and Why It Still Matters in Donald Trump’s America
In the days of Hitler, the Bible was condensed and transformed. Throughout the Third Reich, the “Old Testament” was taken out, thus erasing the Jewish contribution. Imagine: a 12-year-old German reader in 1945 might have been entirely unaware of Genesis, Exodus, or Isaiah. It wasn’t just book burning, it was a replacement of text. It…
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News Pro-Palestinian Activists Push Cause as Protests Against Donald Trump Roil Nation
As thousands of protestors rally in the days after Donald Trump’s upset victory in last week’s election against Hillary Clinton, pro-Palestinian activists are joining their ranks — and hope to join their national struggle to the growing protest movement in America. “The fight is not easy back home and it’s not easy here now with…
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Culture Why We Mourn Leonard Cohen in the Era of Trump
Historians will probably discuss Leonard Cohen’s death alongside two very different developments, Trump victorious and Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize win. “Everybody Knows,” one of Cohen’s bleakest songs, has instantly become an anthem for the despair felt by much of the world in the wake of the election. Leonard Cohen was a weary-voiced troubadour to the…
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News Emboldened by Trump Win, White Nationalists Seek Office
In the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential win, some of the white nationalists who rallied around the Trump campaign are seeking elected office. “I think this will be inevitable, and I think that Trump will have encouraged this,” Jared Taylor, head of the white nationalist website American Renaissance, told Talking Points Memo, “our people will…
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News Saying Donald Trump Is ‘Not Our President,’ Jews Join Protests Rolling Across Country
Thousands gathered across the country to march, shut down roadways and shout slogans against the election of Donald Trump as president. Some carried signs reading: “Jews Reject Trump.” Members of activist Jewish groups were in the streets in New York, California and Oregon, protesting a president-elect they fear has fueled the flames of racism and…
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Israel News For Israelis, President Donald Trump Is Great Unknown — for Better or Worse
Oleg Frolov, a 41-year-old bottle collector in Tel Aviv, said he didn’t know much about Donald Trump or where he stands on Israel. And that’s exactly why he was happy about Republican’s shocking upset victory over Hillary Clinton, whom he detests. “I don’t know Trump at all,” he said, stopping underneath an overpass near Tel…
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News As Election Arrives, Donald Trump Supporters Rally Around Anti-Semitic Pepe the Frog Meme
With just hours before the election, online supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump are frantically posting about Pepe the Frog, the controversial online meme designated as a hate symbol by the Anti Defamation League. “One more day,” one Trump supporters who goes by Vendetta Vidame, wrote on Twitter, posting a meme of Pepe overlaid…
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News WATCH: What If Donald Trump Had Called for Ban on Jews — Not Muslims?
An election ad on rotation in the swing state of Florida, which boasts a sizable Jewish population, imagines presidential candidate Donald Trump calling for a ban on Jews coming to the United States. The advertisement, paid for by the anti-Trump group Truth PAC, includes an excerpt of an earlier speech by Trump in which he…
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