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Fast Forward Lyft’s Jewish Co-Founder Donates $1 Million to ACLU to Fight Immigration Ban
The American Civil Liberties Union received $24 million in donations this past weekend after President Donald Trump announced a temporary ban on immigration from 7 majority-Muslim countries. A whole $1 million of that sum — 6 times what the ACLU typically gathers in online donations over the course of a year — is from Lyft,…
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News WATCH: Chuck Schumer Tears Up Over Muslim Ban
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer cried during a press conference condemning President Trump’s Muslim ban on Sunday. Trump’s executive order bans refugees and immigrants from Muslim countries from entering the U.S. Schumer spoke surrounded by recently resettled Syrian refugees and an Iraqi man who served the U.S. Army for 10 years, and just made it…
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Fast Forward Madeleine Albright and Mayim Bialik Say They’ll Register as Muslims
(JTA) — Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and actress Mayim Bialik said they would register as Muslims if President Donald Trump creates a registry of Muslim Americans. Albright, who served under President Bill Clinton, cited her Jewish ancestry in her statement Wednesday on Twitter. I was raised Catholic, became Episcopalian & found out later…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitism Spikes in Poland — Stoked by Populist Surge Against Refugees
Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Poland, a country with almost no Jews. A new national study conducted by the Center for Research on Prejudice at the University of Warsaw finds a significant increase in negative attitudes toward Jews since 2014. The research, covering the years 2014-2016, shows that anti-Semitic hate speech is becoming increasingly…
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Opinion Thanks, Donald Trump. You Actually Brought Jews and Muslims Together.
At 1:30 p.m. on the day of the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., I huddled with my group of students from the University of Pennsylvania alongside thousands upon thousands of other protesters. Our group tried to find a route around the gridlock, to no avail, when a Muslim freshman realized that the time for afternoon…
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Fast Forward French Presidential Candidate Compares Holocaust to Anti-Muslim Bias
(JTA) — French Jews accused a left-wing presidential candidate of encouraging Holocaust denial following his comparison of the Nazi persecution of Jews to the situation of French Muslims today. Vincent Peillon, who is running in the Socialist Party primaries ahead of the elections this year, made the analogy Tuesday during an interview aired by the…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Muslim Teen Helps Nab Jewish Woman’s Attacker on NYC Subway
Ahmed Khalifa is winning recognition from the community after helping chase down a homeless man who slapped an Orthodox Jewish woman in the face on December 27. “It was a very hard slap, I almost could feel the slap. He was 6-foot-6, and a very big, big guy,” said the 17-year-old Muslim high school student,…
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Fast Forward Muslim Teen Catches Assailant of NYC Jewish Woman
(JTA) — A Muslim teen from New York City helped police catch a homeless man who hit an Orthodox Jewish woman on the subway. Ahmed Khalifa, 17, told the New York Daily News about the incident aboard a Brooklyn-bound train Tuesday. “It was a very hard slap, I almost could feel the slap,” the high…
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