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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump Met With Evangelical Leaders For Hours
After the National Prayer Breakfast last week, Ivanka Trump went into a meeting with over a dozen major evangelical leaders. The meeting went well over it’s scheduled time limit, last for two hours, The Christian Post reported. The group included Paula White, Franklin Graham (son of Billy Graham) and Texas pastor Robert Jeffress. “In 2017,…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi GOP Candidate Says He’s ‘Not A Single-issue Candidate’
Arthur Jones, a Republican candidate for Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District (in a deep-blue part of Chicago), has long been a member of the American Nazi Party. He attended parties celebrating Hitler’s birthday. He recently called the Holocaust “a greatly overblown event.” But, despite wearing a “Veterans of Jewish Wars” cap to events, Jones told the…
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Fast Forward Michele Bachmann Says God Silent On Whether She Should Replace Al Franken
Michele Bachmann declared she is not running to replace Al Franken’s Senate seat, less than a month after telling a televangelist that she was looking into it, the Washington Post reported. Bachmann told a conservative radio host in Minnesota that she “wasn’t hearing any call from God to do this.” “I took it to the…
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Opinion Jane Eisner Interviews Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Transcript
On February 1, 2018, Jane Eisner, editor-in-chief of the Forward, interviewed Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg, a legal and cultural icon, is the longest serving Jewish Supreme Court justice, as well as the second woman to ever serve as a justice. She spoke with Eisner for nearly an hour-and-a-half at Adas Israel in Washington, D.C. Lauren…
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Fast Forward Schiff Accuses Nunes Of Altering Mysterious ‘Memo’ Sent To White House
Adam Schiff accused Devin Nunes of secretly altering a classified ‘memo’ that accuses the FBI and the Department of Justice of abusing their power in their investigations into Donald Trump’s Russia ties, the New York Post reported. Schiff, the ranking Democrat in the House Intelligence Committee, said Nunes, the committee’s chair, sent Trump a version…
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News Have Jews Lost Power In New York City Council Reshuffle?
A power shift in New York’s City Council has diminished some of the city’s most influential Jewish legislators. Now, political insiders warn that Jewish groups may have less pull in City Hall over the next four years. Those insiders worry that the changes could mean that Jewish interests will get short shrift. And they note…
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Fast Forward Gov. Eric Greitens Admits Affair — Accused Of Blackmailing Mistress With S&M Pic
Eric Greitens, the Republican governor of Missouri, admitted Wednesday to having an extramarital affair after a CBS affiliate St. Louis reported that Greitens had tried to blackmail his mistress with a picture showing her bound, blindfolded and partly undressed. KMOV 4 obtained a recording of Greitens’ former hairdresser confessing the affair — from 2015 —…
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Community Leave God Out Of Your Election Commentary
Roy Moore’s first words after losing his U.S. Senate election in Alabama invoked Psalm 40 for God’s control of the election. At the same time, my liberal friends and colleagues – who for years lamented “Bible beating” in the public square – jubilantly called Doug Jones’ election victory a “Chanukkah miracle” that “proves a loving…
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