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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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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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Life Charming and Inspiring Stories from Hillary Clinton’s Oldest Supporters
Some women born before women in the United States got the right to vote, in 1920, are now casting their votes for Hillary Rodham Clinton. Like the symbolism Michelle Obama spoke of about being a black family waking up in a White House built by slaves each morning, the thought of women born into a…
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Community Why the U.S. Presidential Election Matters for Israel’s Environment
Israelis are interested in the U.S. presidential election. But who ends up in the White House does not only impact the most obvious foreign policy initiatives – military aid, the future of the Iran nuclear deal, a potential two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians. I see the future of U.S. environmental policy as the most…
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News Gloria Steinem: Electing Hillary Clinton Won’t End Sexism
Five decades after she helped launch the feminist movement, Gloria Steinem hopes to see a woman sit in the White House next January. But as she told National Public Radio in an interview last Friday, she’s under no illusion that sexism will soon disappear. “I’m more dismayed than thrilled because I think the level of…
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Life When Trump was on ‘The Nanny’
As I’ve told all who will listen, the strangest thing about this election, to me, has been less that my country might be going totalitarian (I’ve read enough Hannah Arendt to know that such things, unfortunately, happen) as who that would-be totalitarian leader is. It’s not someone like Mike Huckabee, who had long been my…
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News Mark Cuban Insists He’s Not Running for Anything — Does Anyone Believe Him?
Sitting on CNN’s set on the sidelines of the last presidential debate in Las Vegas, Mark Cuban engaged in one of the toughest exchanges seen in this election cycle, with former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani. This pre-debate shouting match epitomized the Dallas-based Jewish billionaire’s transformation from celebrity billionaire to one of Hillary Clinton’s most…
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Culture Charlie Kirk kept a ‘Jewish Sabbath.’ What did he mean by that?
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News Who was Horst Wessel, and why are people comparing Charlie Kirk to him?
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Fast Forward ‘Murdered for speaking truth’: Netanyahu and US Jewish leaders mourn Charlie Kirk
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