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Fast Forward Republican Congressional candidate deletes photos from Hitler’s retreat vacation
(JTA) — A right-wing Republican congressional candidate in North Carolina has taken down pictures he posted to Instagram from a 2017 vacation to the Eagle’s Nest, the Nazi retreat in Germany that Hitler visited more than a dozen times. Just seeing these @CawthornforNC Instagram posts from 2017…my god. Referring to Hitler with the honorific “Führer.”…
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Fast Forward Report: Trump lashes out at Sheldon Adelson, one of his biggest donors
(JTA) — Sheldon Adelson might be one of Donald Trump’s biggest donors, but that doesn’t mean the two men have a warm relationship. According to a report in Politico this weekend, Trump appeared not to understand Adelson’s significance when the president spoke to him last week — and lashed out at the casino magnate for…
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Community Why isn’t climate change a bigger issue for the Orthodox?
Why have Orthodox Jews been so slow to commit to the struggle against climate change? The Pope and the Islamic Society of North America have spoken up about it. In January, Renewal Rabbi Arthur Waskow’s Shalom Center issued a statement with more than 500 rabbinic signees, and this spring, Reform Rabbi Jennie Rosenn launched Dayenu:…
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Fast Forward A Jewish guide to Biden’s VP short list
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is expected to name his running mate in the next two weeks, and while the list of contenders has changed constantly for months, most reports have now whittled the group of front-runners down to Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Susan Rice, Karen Bass, Tammy Duckworth and Keisha Lance…
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Fast Forward A county prosecutor is running on being ‘truly a Christian’ — against a Jewish opponent
A Jewish candidate for county attorney in Michigan is taking offense to ads from his opponent, who in a recent mailing and Facebook post calls himself “a candidate… who is truly a Christian.” Stuart Fenton is running to be the top prosecutor in Emmet County, in northern Michigan. His opponent, James Linderman, a four-term incumbent,…
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News The pandemic put Phoenix’s Jewish mayor in the spotlight. She’s walking a tightrope.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — When Kate Gallego was growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, she dreamed of moving to the big city and making an impact. To prepare, she played video games. “So there was a computer game Sim City where you could map out cities, and I loved that,” Gallego said in an interview this…
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Fast Forward Elected mayor at 22. Alex Morse, a gay Jewish progressive, is now running for Congress.
(JTA) — Alex Morse’s first job out of college was as mayor of his Massachusetts hometown, Holyoke. Morse spent only one day a week on campus at Brown University his last semester as he mounted a campaign against an incumbent three times his age. When he was elected later that year, the then-22-year-old first-generation college…
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News Insurgent New York primary victories could signal shift in Orthodox voting
In the middle of a once-in-a-century pandemic and historic protests over systemic racism in American society, three New York electoral districts with large Jewish communities are getting new political representation for the first time in well over a generation. The heavily Jewish Riverdale section of the Bronx as well as Rockland and Westchester Counties are…
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