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Opinion 9 Questions Republican Jews Want Answered
It’s going to be a long Thursday. The Republican Jewish Coalition is holding a forum for GOP presidential candidates, and everyone’s invited. Well, everyone in the race. Even candidates who register as barely a blip on the national radar will get 30 minutes to make their case to an audience of hundreds of Republican Jews….
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Fast Forward Trump Has Strongest Jewish Ties of all GOP Candidates
(JTA) — Among the expansive field of Republican presidential candidates on display in the party’s first debates Thursday night, Donald Trump may be the most closely connected to the Jewish people. Trump is from New York, works in professions saturated with Jews and long has been a vocal supporter of Israel. His daughter and two…
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News Meet Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s Jewish Wingman
Donald Trump has been losing friends fast since he called Mexican immigrants “rapists” at his campaign kickoff in June: Television networks, a department store and a mattress company have all “fired” the bronze-haired developer. Amid the defections, though, one Trump buddy is standing by his man: Trump confidante Michael Cohen has been nearly as visible…
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Fast Forward Ed Miliband Resigns After Crushing Loss in British Election
British opposition leader Ed Miliband quit on Friday after his Labor Party suffered a heavy election defeat and was virtually driven out of Scotland, leaving the demoralized party with no obvious successor. Miliband had gone into Thursday’s election expecting he had a good chance of beating Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives and forming a government,…
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Fast Forward Ed Miliband Locked in Dead Heat as Britain Votes
Britons went to vote on Thursday in the tightest election for decades; one that could cause government gridlock, push the world’s fifth-largest economy closer to leaving the European Union and stoke a second attempt by Scotland to break away. Final opinion polls showed Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives and Ed Miliband’s opposition Labor Party almost…
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Fast Forward British Politician Suspended for Calling Ed Miliband ‘the Jew’
(JTA) — Britain’s Conservative Party suspended a council candidate after she referred to Labor Party leader Ed Miliband as “the Jew” in Arabic. Gulzabeen Afsar, who was set to run next week in Derby, was suspended on Monday, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Responding to a comment on her Facebook page suggesting that Miliband would be…
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Culture Fear, Trembling and Madness After Bibi’s Re-Election
I’m in Tel Aviv. I love Tel Aviv. Who doesn’t? I’m in a boutique hotel on Gordon Street, facing the Gordon Beach, and I’m ready for breakfast. “What would you like to order?” asks the waiter. I like the waiters at this hotel. They are young and handsome, they look intellectual, and all of them…
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Fast Forward Marco Rubio, Israel Hawk, Enters 2016 Republican Race for White House
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a hawk on pro-Israel issues, declared his bid for the Republican presidential candidacy. Rubio, 43, spoke Monday with donors, according to various media reports, and said his campaign would emphasize his biography: The child of refugees from the Cuban dictatorship who made good in America. He was due to make a…
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