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Fast Forward Ikea Aims To Reach Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox With A Female-Free Catalog
Swedish furniture retailer Ikea has come under fire in Israel after publishing a catalog without women. Hoping to appeal to the country’s ultra-Orthodox Jews, the catalog released this month shows men and boys in domestic settings — clad in yarmulke and with side curls. They sit at a Sabbath table, in a study and a…
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Fast Forward Republican Jewish Lawmaker Cancels Town Hall, Citing Protests
Lee Zeldin, Congress’ lone Jewish Republican, has canceled an April town hall event, after protesters disrupted a recent appearance of his at a Long Island, New York rotary club. “This meeting was co-opted, renamed and re-branded by a group of liberal activists who were already holding strategy meetings to turn it into a disruptive show…
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Opinion Americans Love the Jews. They Really Do. For Now.
With all the hateful stuff being said about Jews by the “alt-right”, with a White House that somehow neglected to mention Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day, with hate crimes spiking and even placid Jewish Community Centers on the receiving end of bomb threats, the results from a survey released today by the Pew Research Center…
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Fast Forward Will David Friedman Apologize For Calling Liberal Jews ‘Kapos’?
President Trump’s pick for Israel envoy, David Friedman, is expected to apologize for calling liberal American Jews “worse than kapos” at his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday, the New York Times reported. Friedman doubled down on the disparaging comments about supporters of J Street, the dovish Israel lobby, in an op-ed last year on the…
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Breaking News Jewish Groups Cheer ‘Muslim Ban’ Appellate Rulling
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jewish groups welcomed a federal appeals court ruling upholding a stay on President Donald Trump’s ban on the entry of refugees and of travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries. “We applaud the Ninth Circuit’s ruling, and hope that it sends an important message to the nation and the world that the United States…
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Breaking News Chuck Schumer: W.H. Holocaust Statement Didn’t ‘Honor’ 6 Million Jews
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Sen. Chuck Schumer joined the growing list of Democrats to have condemned the White House Holocaust Remembrance Day statement, calling it “troubling and unfortunate.” Schumer, the Senate minority leader from New York, made the comments to Haaretz Wednesday, a day after House Democrats failed to pass a resolution slamming the White House statement, which…
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Fast Forward Jamaica Kincaid, Black Jewish Author, Scoops Israeli Cultural Prize
Jamaica Kincaid, the Jewish, Caribbean-born author of five semi-autobiographical novels, won a prestigious Israeli prize this week in recognition of her cultural impact and literary accomplishment. Administered by Tel Aviv University, the Dan David Prize went to Kincaid because she’s “one of the most important and influential writers today,” the awards committee wrote. Previous recipients…
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Community How To Build A More Inclusive Jewish Community
Judaism values inclusion. Yet, according to a study conducted in 2013 by RespectAbilityUSA and JerusalemU, most American Jews with disabilities feel excluded from their own gathering places. National Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month (JDAIM), created in 2009, was designed to rectify this. As a community, we still have work to do. To that end,…
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