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Fast Forward Donald Trump Allegedly Mocked Deaf Jewish “Apprentice” Contestant
— Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who is attempting damage control following his misogynistic statements, is accused of mocking the deaf Jewish actress Marlee Matlin over her disability. Trump ridiculed Matlin, a 1986 Academy Award winner, during filming in 2011 of his reality television show “Celebrity Apprentice,” The Daily Beast reported Thursday, allegedly calling the…
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Fast Forward N.J. House Candidate Targeted By Swastika Attack
— Swastikas were painted outside the New Jersey home of an Indian-American candidate for Congress with a Jewish-sounding surname. Peter Jacob is running against a Republican incumbent, Leonard Lance, who is a supporter of presidential candidate Donald Trump. Jacob blames Lance’s backing of Trump for the display of hate. Jacob told the local media that…
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Fast Forward UNESCO Votes Against Jewish Connection to Temple Mount
— A United Nations agency in a preliminary vote has passed a controversial resolution that denies a Jewish connection to the Old City of Jerusalem. UNESCO — the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization — at its executive board’s meeting Thursday in Paris passed the Palestinian-backed measure with 24 votes in favor and 6…
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News Right Before Yom Kippur, New York Synagogue Finds Swastikas Spray-Painted on Cemetery Wall
As Jews prayed this weekend to be sealed into the Book of Life, vandals in a upstate New York town of Warwick disrespected their dead. Police in the town on October 9 alerted officials at nearby Temple Beth Shalom that the front of their cemetery had been defaced with a spray-painted swastika and Nazi slogans…
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The Schmooze ‘Harry Potter’ Series Finally Gets a Jewish Twist
After the publication of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” almost a decade ago, fans were afraid the series had finally come to an end, and that soon it would disappear from the big screen, too. But “Harry Potter” has found the Resurrection Stone (perhaps for reasons magical and pecuniary), first with the opening of…
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Opinion This Jewish Woman Is the New Face of the ‘Never Trump’ Republicans
As we’ve watched the rise of Donald Trump with abject horror over the past year, us “Never Trump” Republicans have stuck together because we’ve had to. We’ve helped each other withstand the onslaught of pressure to vote for what many Republicans perceive to be the lesser of two evils. One of the political friends I’ve…
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News You Lost The Debate? Blame the Jews
If Donald Trump lost his second smackdown with Hillary Clinton, it’s because the Jews sabotaged him or spun his performance to their own advantage, say his most ardent backers in the “alt-right” blogosphere. “The people believe Trump won the debate. It’s really just an objective fact. Not sure how even liberal kikes could claim otherwise….
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Opinion I’m a Bisexual Jewish Woman. Is It Wrong That I Want To Pass as Straight?
From communities on all sides, the answer I’m getting is yes
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