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Fast Forward JD Vance attacks influential Jewish head of teachers union for not having biological kids
'If she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone,' the vice presidential nominee said in a newly surfaced clip
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Politics Harris spoke more extensively about war in Gaza at DNC than Trump did at RNC
Republican candidates did not use the worlds "Gaza," "Hamas" or "Palestinians" during their acceptance speeches
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Politics JD Vance downplays Trump dinner with Holocaust denier
The Republican vice presidential nominee disavowed Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist, and called him a ‘total loser’
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Politics JD Vance’s Jewish chief of staff, Jacob Reses, eyed for big role in Trump/Vance administration
Some say Reses' Jewish identity clashes with the Christian nationalism of many on the so-called New Right, with which his boss affiliates
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Opinion JD Vance is a huge fan of Israel’s Yoram Hazony. What might that mean for America?
Trump's vice president's inspiration is a right-wing theorist who believes in reintegrating church and state
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Yiddish World Why are Yiddish speakers talking about JD Vance and bedbugs?
The 'vants,' once ubiquitous among poor Lower East Side residents, appears in a number of humorous Yiddish expressions
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Politics What a JD Vance vice presidency would mean for American Jews and Israel
Vance subscribes to Trump's isolationism, but says the US commitment to Israel must remain strong
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Culture J.D. Vance’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy’: A Jewish defense
Ron Howard's adaptation of J.D. Vance's book has been widely derided as poverty porn, but a Jewish reading yields something far-more nuanced
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