This is the Forward’s coverage of U.S. president Donald Trump and his relationship to the Jewish community.
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Opinion Germany had a complicated reckoning with its Nazi past — will post-Trump America face a similar reckoning?
Trump's inner circle will remain loyal, but the rest of the country has a choice to make
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Fast Forward Bard president Leon Botstein says Trump’s campaign against colleges follows ‘a classic antisemitic routine’
Botstein, born in 1946 in Europe to Holocaust survivors, has led the liberal arts college for 50 years.
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Antisemitism Decoded How Trump is banning DEI at universities — except for Jews
The Trump administration's ban on DEI at universities has one big exception: Jewish students get special support.
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Fast Forward Trump fired a commissioner over bad jobs numbers. Nixon targeted a ‘Jewish cabal’ at the same agency
White House personnel chief Fred Malek later apologized for tallying Jewish staffers at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Trump tapped him in 2017 to lead a prestigious think tank.
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Fast Forward Brown University strikes $50M deal with Trump administration over allegations of campus antisemitism
The school also agreed to survey Jewish students and renew partnerships with Israeli academics
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Fast Forward Donald Trump says US will distribute food in Gaza, where he says there is ‘real starvation’
Trump’s comments directly contradicted the position of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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Fast Forward Trump administration promotes official with history of antisemitic ties to lead U.S. peace efforts
The earlier appointment of Darren Beattie, who is Jewish, to the state department drew concern from Jewish groups over ties to far-right individuals and white nationalist rhetoric
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Opinion The US is turning a blind eye to death and devastation — it isn’t the first time
The American government seems indifferent to starvation in Gaza — just as they were when Jews were dying in WWII
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