Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of former U.S. president Donald Trump and his relationship to the Jewish community.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of former U.S. president Donald Trump and his relationship to the Jewish community.
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Breaking News ‘You’ll always be Momala:’ Harris receives nomination from stepdaughter
As she accepted her formal nomination for the vice presidency, Senator Kamala Harris received a tribute from three female relatives, including her Jewish stepdaughter. In a pre-recorded video, Harris’s sister, Maya Harris, niece, Meena Harris and stepdaughter Ella Emhoff spoke glowingly of the vice presidential candidate, portraying her as an inspiring politician and a central…
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Israel News 5 winners, 4 losers from the historic treaty between Israel and the UAE
(JTA) — The treaty between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is a big deal. The agreement, announced Thursday in a joint statement from the White House and called the Abraham Accord, means that Israel will now have diplomatic and economic relations with a country that had not recognized it. In return for recognition and…
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Israel News Analysis: How the Israel-UAE deal helps Trump – and Biden
The governments of Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced a historic agreement on Thursday, in which the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would suspend plans to annex parts of the West Bank in exchange for the normalization of ties from the sheikhdom. The deal was brokered by President Trump, who said that…
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Israel News Has Trump messed up in Israel, too?
U.S. leadership in the world is, unsurprisingly, at near all-time lows. A Gallup poll released last month showed that America under the Trump administration’s stewardship was only viewed favorably by some 33 percent of respondents across 135 countries. A rare outlier, however, was Israel, nearly doubling the approval rating at 64% – joining such countries…
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Fast Forward Orthodox music star performs Donald Trump song at Jewish summer camp
(JTA) – The original song is about the repeated oppression of the Jewish people throughout history. The rewritten song is a prayer for Donald Trump to win re-election. Orthodox Jewish pop star Yaakov Shwekey sang an ode to Donald Trump at an Orthodox overnight camp based on his hit song “We Are a Miracle.” In…
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News Trump says U.S. needs ‘more Jews that love Israel’
President Trump told a group of Jewish supporters at a fundraiser Sunday that “we need more Jews in the U.S. that love Israel,” the Orthodox news outlet Belaaz reported. The event was held at the Long Branch, N.J. home of the late Stanley Chera, a real estate developer and a friend of Trump’s who died…
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Fast Forward Report: Trump lashes out at Sheldon Adelson, one of his biggest donors
(JTA) — Sheldon Adelson might be one of Donald Trump’s biggest donors, but that doesn’t mean the two men have a warm relationship. According to a report in Politico this weekend, Trump appeared not to understand Adelson’s significance when the president spoke to him last week — and lashed out at the casino magnate for…
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Fast Forward ‘Miracle drug’ Dr. Vladimir Zelenko is tweeting pro-Trump conspiracy theories
Dr. Vladimir Zelenko is just one week out of what he has described as an emergency heart surgery to remove a tumor. But the country’s most famous proponent of hydroxychloroquine is already back online: He’s promoting the unproven drug as a treatment for COVID-19 and tweeting conspiratorially about what he sees as the political reasons…
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