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Fast Forward Soros: Trump Is a ‘Would-Be Dictator’ Destined to Fail
(JTA) — Billionaire George Soros called Donald Trump a “would-be dictator” who is “going to fail.” On the eve of Trump’s inauguration in Washington, Soros on Thursday said during a panel discussion in Davos, Switzerland, that President-elect Trump was “gearing up for a trade war,” which would have “a very far-reaching effect in Europe and…
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Fast Forward Israeli Minister: We’re Praying for ‘Serious, Courageous’ and Responsible President Trump
(JTA) – Yuval Steinitz, a senior Israeli cabinet minister, said Israel was “praying” that President-elect Donald Trump will be responsible, courageous and serious. Steinitz, Israel’s energy and infrastructures minister, who is considered to be a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said in an interview on Army Radio Friday that “we are all praying…
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News George Soros: Trump Will Fail, EU Will Survive
Hungarian-born Jewish billionaire George Soros predicted Thursday that Donald Trump will fail at his presidency and unleash uncertainty on markets. “I personally am convinced that he’s going to fail,” Soros said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Not because of people like me who would like him to fail, but because the ideas…
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Fast Forward Oracle Gets Sued for Paying White Men More
The software giant Oracle, where Donald Trump appointee Safra Catz is CEO, is getting hit with a discrimination lawsuit by the Department of Labor. According to BuzzFeed, the DOL claims Oracle paid women, African-Americans and Asian workers less than they paid white men for the same jobs. In the official complaint, the DOL claims Oracle…
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Fast Forward Jamie Raskin Becomes Jewish Democrat No. 4 To Skip Trump Inaugural
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Four Jewish Democrats in Congress are among 59 of the party’s U.S. House of Representatives delegation who will not attend Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration. The four are Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York.; Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland; Rep. John Yarmuth of Kentucky; and Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee. The movement to…
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Fast Forward Trump Appoints Jared Kushner Friend as Assistant to President
(JTA) — Donald Trump named Reed Cordish, a real estate developer who is friends with his son-in-law Jared Kushner, as assistant to the president for intragovernmental and technology initiatives. Cordish, who is Jewish, will be responsible for initiatives requiring multi-agency collaboration. He will also focus on technological innovation and modernization, according to a statement Tuesday by Trump’s…
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Fast Forward Reform Rabbi: I Turned Down Offer to Speak at Inaugural Service
A Reform rabbi from Maryland rejected an invitation to address Donald Trump at a prayer service marking the presidential inauguration because he thought his participation “could appear callous to the many fears in [his] community.” Writing Tuesday in the Washington Post, Rabbi Ari Plost of Congregation B’nai Abraham in Hagerstown, Maryland, said that he turned…
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Fast Forward Scalper Losing ‘Yu-u-u-ge’ Money on Trump Inauguration Tickets
President-elect Donald Trump is so unpopular that he’s putting scalpers out of business. “Nobody wants to buy them,” Yossi Rosenberg, 36, told The New York Daily News, grousing about his inability to sell at a profit the pair of tickets he bought for $700. “It looks like I’m stuck with them, I might even have…
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