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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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Fast Forward Jewish Democrat Josh Gottheimer Prevails in N.J. House Race
After an ugly contest that filled the airwaves with attack ads, Democrat Josh Gottheimer has won a New Jersey congressional race against Republican incumbent Scott Garrett. After all the ballots were tallied on Wednesday, the Jewish former Bill Clinton aide held a 3% edge over his Tea Party rival, a bright spot for liberals in…
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Life Links for Later: The What-a-Week Edition
It’s Thursday, so I have some links for you, Sisterhood readers. A female presidential candidate — not a Jewish one, but one who received a whole bunch of anti-Semitic attacks, on her and her supporters — was just defeated. I’m still grappling with that, and would not be surprised if you are as well. -Have…
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News Did George Soros’s Cash Scalp Anti-Immigrant Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio?
Gorge Soros saw his favored presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lose at the national level. But the leftwing billionaire vilified in Donald Trump ads met with success in at least one race, succeeding in his effort to remove from office Joe Arpaio, the anti-immigrant sheriff of Arizona’s Maricopa County. “We congratulate Paul Penzone and everyone who…
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Israel News Why Israelis Shrug Off Donald Trump’s Anti-Semitism Problem
For most American Jews, Donald Trump’s election win was nothing short of chilling, fueled in part by anti-Semitic followers and the president-elect’s own use of hateful tropes about world domination by Jewish figures in his final campaign ad. But in Israel, the anti-Semitism surrounding the Trump campaign didn’t register as a warning sign. In fact,…
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Community Picking Up the Pieces, Together
Nov 9 and 10 mark Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. Over seventy years ago today, thousands of Jewish businesses were destroyed in Germany and over one thousand synagogues burned to the ground. In Philadelphia yesterday, a store was vandalized with a swastika and a “Heil Trump” sign was left emblazoned on its walls. Walking…
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Fast Forward 70% of Jews Backed Hillary Clinton: J Street Poll
WASHINGTON ( — Seventy percent of Jewish voters favored Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, with 25 percent opting for Donald Trump, according to a poll. The national survey, which was commissioned by J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group, again showed a community that trends more Democratic than the general population. Clinton…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Has ‘Nothing Polite to Say’ After Donald Trump Win
Bernie Sanders set aside his grievances with Hillary Clinton during the general election, crisscrossing the nation on behalf of his ex-primary rival. He’s keeping his silence, though, in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the November election. “We have nothing polite to say,” Sanders adviser told CNN’s Jeff Zeleny on Wednesday, refusing to…
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