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News Has Donald Trump’s Campaign Reshuffle Pushed Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Aside?
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law, have long enjoyed a reputation as his closest advisers. Yet when Trump fired his campaign manager and installed two new operatives in his place, the Jewish power couple was far from the action, enjoying the good life in Croatia and hanging out with Vladimir Putin’s…
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News Catskills Congressional Candidate Takes Aim at Republican Donor Paul Singer
Eliminating the middleman, a Democratic candidate for a upstate New York seat in Congress is going after her Republican rival’s financial backer, Jewish billionaire Paul Singer. Zephyr Teachout, a progressive Democrat running for an open seat in New York’s 19th congressional district, has challenged Singer to debate her personally after the hedge fund titan sunk…
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News Could Donald Trump’s ‘Extreme Vetting’ for Immigrants Bar Orthodox Jews and Israelis?
Would your Jewish grandparents pass Donald Trump’s “extreme vetting” for potential immigrants to America? Would their country of origin fall under those “most dangerous and volatile regions of the world” from which immigration to the United States should be barred? Would they pass the bar of “those who share our values?” For at least one…
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News Newt Gingrich Just Fanned the Flames of Seth Rich Conspiracy Theories
Newt Gingrich has raised questions about the murder of Democratic staffer Seth Rich, fanning the flames of conspiracy theories that link the unsolved slaying to the hacking scandal that has roiled the presidential campaign. In an appearance on The Mike Gallagher Show last week, the former Republican presidential candidate Gingrich appeared to give credence to…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Waves Anti-Semitic Graphic Tweeted by David Duke
Donald Trump used another graphic initially published by an anti-Semitic site last week at a rally in Sunrise, Florida. He held up a chart that purported to show the amount of money several countries in North Africa and the Middle East had paid in order to receive money from the State Department, calling it a…
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Community Two Reasons Trump Deserves the Jewish Vote
This piece was written by Jews Choose Trump members Carol Greenwald, Richard Allen, Eve Stieglitz and Louis Sokol. Greenwald is the president of Potomac Investment Co., a financial advisory firm. Allen is the founder of JCCWatch.org. Stieglitz is the Jewish advisor for women on the National Diversity Coalition for Trump. Sokol is an Internet marketing…
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News In Seattle, Jewish and Muslim Business Partners Agree to Dump Trump
Donald Trump’s upcoming fundraiser in Seattle at the end of the month will lack two major fundraisers, a Jew and a Muslim, who decided to withdraw their support for the Republican presidential nominee because of his attack on the family of a Muslim American fallen soldier. Gordon Sondland and Bashar Wali have been partners in…
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The Schmooze Hillary Clinton Makes History, Gets Photo of Hand Published in Ultra-Orthodox Newspaper
In an unlikely turn of events, the ultra-Orthodox newspaper Yated Ne’eman has been thrust into the spotlight as a paragon of feminism and progressive media ethics. The newspaper has, for the first time in its history, published a picture of a woman, Only Simchas reported. And not just any woman: Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. But,…
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