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Fast Forward Meet The Jew-Turned-Evangelical Who Boosted Bob Mueller Firing Rumor
President Trump just welcomed another unlikely darling of the Christian right with a history of jilted business partners and employees. The newest member of the president’s personal legal team used to be a Jew. His name is Jay Sekulow and you should know who he is. A Messianic Jew Sekulow, 61, converted in college after…
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Fast Forward Jon Ossoff Slams Opponent On Planned Parenthood Drama In Georgia Congress Debate
Jon Ossoff slammed his Republican opponent for a controversy involving breast cancer screenings and Planned Parenthood in their first debate in the high-stakes Georgia special election for Congress. The Jewish Democrat slammed Karen Handel for her actions as an official of the Susan G. Komen Foundation when she sought to cut ties with the women’s…
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Opinion The Big Tent: What Camping Can Teach Us About Israelis And American Jews
Every year for the past six, I’ve spent an early summer weekend camping with several dozen Jewish parents (mostly fathers) and their elementary-school-age kids. We all live in the New York area, but roughly one-quarter grew up in Israel. The other three-quarters hail from the United States or other parts of the Diaspora. Over the…
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News The Film Maker Who Sees A National Plot That Starts At A Suburban High School
Paul Traynor’s documentary “New Trier: The Tip of the Spear” explains in deep detail all the elements of a seemingly local controversy that flared up last February at New Trier High School, a nationally distinguished public school in suburban Chicago’s heavily Jewish North Shore. If the film is to be believed, the angry dispute that…
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News Racial Politics Hits An Affluent Chicago Jewish Suburb — But Does It Go Further?
Students at New Trier High School were pleased and excited when Andrew Aydin, a close associate of civil rights icon and Democratic Congress member John Lewis, agreed to speak at their school on civil rights; even more so when Colson Whitehead, the widely lauded author of the best-selling novel, “The Underground Railroad,” agreed to join…
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Community Want To Be Radical? Forge True Friendship.
In 2017, our minds have succumbed to thinking in antonyms. There are two of everything these days, be it political affiliations or moral positions. We are drowning in a form of dualism that pits each of us against the other and aggravates every form of difference. This is a lonely way to live and a…
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Community Why Is Congressman Lee Zeldin The Target of Attacks?
Lee Zeldin is the ranking Jewish Republican Congressman who represents District 1 of NY in the U.S. House of Representatives. Zeldin is also the co-chair of the House Republican Israel Caucus. Zeldin was one of the first to openly oppose the Iran Nuclear Deal and an ardent supporter of Israel. He is a member of…
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Fast Forward Eliot Spitzer’s Ex-Wife Takes His Name — Eyes Political Future
Women usually dump their married names after a divorce, but the ex-wife of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer – has gone in the other direction, changing her name from Silda Wall to Silda Wall Spitzer via a filing in an upstate court. “Petitioner simply desires to change her name from Silda Alice Wall, her legal…
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