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Opinion From Rosh Hashanah to Election Day, It’s a Season of Repentance Like No Other
‘Today the world is born” — Hayom harat olam. These are among the most electric words in all of Jewish sacred liturgy. They’re recited by the congregation immediately after the blowing of the shofar, the ram’s horn, at midday on the New Year holiday, Rosh Hashanah. The words are especially electric this year, because they…
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The Schmooze Howard Stern Feels Trumped Up By First Debate
Howard Stern never expected he’d figure into an American presidential race. The talk-show host told BuzzFeed News that it felt surreal when he got name-checked at Monday night’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, as the candidates disputed Trump’s opposition to the Iraq War. “Now I can check that off on my bucket list,”…
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News ‘Alt-Right’ Hears Just Enough Dog Whistles To Stick With Donald Trump
Donald Trump may have angered some in the so called “alt-right” with his debate jibe about a 400 pound hacker. But most extreme-right activists were looking for other other code-worded racially loaded messages from Trump — and analysts who track white supremacists and anti-Semitic activists say they may have heard just enough to keep them…
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Life Meet the ‘Jewish Women for Hillary’ Who Are Going All Out to Elect a Female President
In less than two months Hillary Clinton could become the first female president of the United States. A group of challah-loving girls on the block is doing everything they can to make exactly that happen: Jewish Women for Hillary. “Jewish women are doers. They know how to get things done,” Betsy Sheerr, one of the…
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News Sid Blumenthal, an Unhappy Bibi and 3 Other Jewish Moments From the Presidential Debate
After months of anticipation, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met Monday night in the first of three presidential debates. Stretching for 90 minutes, the spectacle lived up to the hype, and felt at times more like a boxing match than a civic event. Here’s five Jewish snap-shots from a night to remember: Return of Sid…
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News Jewish Neocons Tweet Shade, Schadenfreude at Trump’s Debate Performance
It was a night of huffing and puffing, snorting and smarting, hectoring and interrupting for Donald Trump at the first presidential debate at Hofstra University. The media consensus — even the right-leaning Fox News — held that Hillary Clinton won. Jewish conservatives, many of them Never-Trumpers, signaled their agreement in a series of derisive tweets….
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News Trump Seizes on Pre-Debate Netanyahu Meeting to Revise His Record
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have wanted a low key-key rendezvous with Donald Trump September 25. The press, after all, was left standing outside the Trump Tower, but the Republican presidential candidate was aiming for as much attention as possible in his release of an unusually long and detailed press release. Natanyahu was using…
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News In Age of Donald Trump, Jews Battle Over Legacy of RFK
What would Bobby do? This question suddenly has two Jewish former aides of Robert F. Kennedy on competing side of the argument. One, former speechwriter Adam Walinsky, shocked Democrats in announcing his decision to side with Donald Trump, while the other, former Senate aide Peter Edelman, strongly rejected the mere idea of comparing Trump to…
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