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Breaking News Brooklyn Neighbors Sound Alarm Over Hasidic Synagogue’s Ear-Splitting Siren
The Sabbath is supposed to be a day of quiet relaxation. But according to residents near one Hasidic synagogue in Brooklyn, the noise from the schul’s Friday afternoon siren is anything but restful. “It leaves me with a ringing in my ears and headaches that have continued for two days,” Aaron Graubart, who lives next…
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News 5 Things About Gloria Allred
Donald Trump’s taped boast about assaulting women — and later assertions from a dozen women that he acted as he said — have stirred a hornet’s nest of sexual harassment and assault allegations. For two decades, Jewish attorney Gloria Allred has been at the center of that discussion, representing clients who have accused powerful men…
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Breaking News Is Boris Epshteyn the First Face of Trump TV?
Since the launch of his presidential campaign last year, Donald Trump has taken over the cable news airwaves. Almost ubiquitous as the man himself, Trump spokesman Boris Epshteyn has made more than 100 television appearances for the candidate. Epshteyn, a Russian-Jewish immigrant and a 34-year-old attorney and Republican, might also be as controversial as his…
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Breaking News WATCH: Can This Cute Lesbian Couple Swing North Carolina?
The presidential election could turn on North Carolina. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are pouring millions into the state and surrogates are blanketing the state with rallies. But could Lennie Gerber and Pearl Berlin be the Democrats’ secret weapon? The Human Rights Campaign is pulling out the elderly lesbian couple, in hopes their heartwarming…
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Breaking News Baltimore Poised To Elect First Orthodox City Councilmember
Baltimore has a rich Jewish history that stretches back to the colonial era. Next month will mark a milestone when it is expected to elect its first Orthodox Jew to the City Council. As the November election approaches, , Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer, a 20-something businessman, Sabbath observer, and father of one is the overwhelming favorite…
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Breaking News Bill Clinton Warns of Trump, Urges Florida Jews to Get Out and Vote
No one knows tikkun olam, or “repairing the world” like Bubba, right? Former President Bill Clinton invoked that spirit — and something much more scary — to urge Florida Jews to stick to their Democratic Party roots and vote en masse for Hillary Clinton. He connected Hillary Clinton’s call for a more inclusive country, embodied…
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News Divine Intersection: The Surprising Story of the Jews Who Became Sufi Muslims
At a burial shrine set in the rolling farmland of Pennsylvania, a group of Sufi devotees swayed in prayer, chanting the many names of God. The women, heads covered in loose shawls, sat on one side; the men, some clutching prayer beads, on the other. One woman, overcome with emotion, wept openly. At the center…
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Culture Takin’ The A Train to the Forgotten ‘Jews of Harlem’
THE JEWS OF HARLEM: THE RISE, DECLINE, AND REVIVAL OF A JEWISH COMMUNITY By Jeffrey S. Gurock NYU Press, 320 pages, $35 There was once an area in Manhattan where few Jews — and almost no whites — settled, that area beneath Morningside Heights, past Central Park, above 96th Street on the East Side: Harlem….
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