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The Schmooze WATCH: Chelsea Handler Tells Ivanka To ‘Dump Trump’
For all the criticism leveled at Donald Trump, many pundits have praised his kids. But comedian Chelsea Handler isn’t having it. She has a message for the Republican nominee’s daughter Ivanka Trump: get on the right side of history and the wrong side of your family. “If she were to come forward now, after everything…
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Fast Forward Holocaust-Denying Academic Organized List of Trump Endorsers
In an effort to counter claims that his list of supporter is short on intellectuals, Donald Trump, scholars supporting his run for presidency are collecting signatures on a statement endorsing the Republican candidate. According to a Daily Caller report from Friday, more than 50 scholars have joined the statement, saying that, “supporters of the Trump…
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News Mormons Love Jews. They Don’t Know Vice Presidential Candidate Mindy Finn is One.
A Mormon and a Jew walk into a bar. What sounds like the beginning of a joke is an important political reality in 2016 — at least in Utah. Last month, independent candidate Evan McMullin chose Mindy Finn as his running mate. Finn is a veteran GOP strategist who runs a feminist non-profit. The Texan…
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Fast Forward Wikileaks Reveals Hillary Clinton’s Plan To Roll Out Opposition to BDS
Hillary Clinton and her staff know the Jewish community all too well. In fact, the team is so immersed in the ins and outs of inside Jewish baseball, that even a straightforward statement opposing efforts to boycott Israel early in the campaign was an issue of intense deliberation and scrutiny. As a recent Wikileaks email…
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Opinion The Middle East: A Daunting Challenge for Hillary Clinton — or Donald Trump
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. The next President has an enormous mess to clean up. Eight years of President Obama’s utopian rationalism has resulted in a sense of global unraveling — both of geostrategic stability and of American interests — and nowhere has it been…
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Opinion Trump’s Policy On Syrian Refugees Reflects America At Its Most Pathological
*This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election.** With the number of people killed in Syria climbing toward 500,000, almost 5 million people have left their homes in search of safety. Under the Obama administration, the U.S. has accepted 10,000 Syrian refugees. Hillary Clinton has said she would…
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Opinion Does Donald Trump Even Have a Policy on Police Reform and Racial Justice?
*This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election.** Does Donald Trump have a solid stance on police reform or racial justice? The official “Policies” page on the website for his campaign does not have anything listed related to these issues. While Hillary Clinton’s campaign website includes separate tabs…
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News The Forward in the Podesta Files
John Podesta’s e-mails have revealed a lot about Hillary Clinton’s outreach to American Jews and her messaging on Israel. So, of course the Forward had something to do with it. It turns out that Podesta subscribes to newsletters from numerous Jewish organizations, including Tikkun Magazine and the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Peace, a Washington,…
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