In Trump’s assault on the media, disturbing flashbacks to the Third Reich
Hitler also consolidated his power by controlling, intimidating and punishing the press
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Do you know the story of how Jews came to be known as the People of the Book? After the destruction of the Second Temple, the Jewish people dispersed. Absent the temple that had united them in observance and study, each man was obligated to study Torah for himself. To do this, all men needed…
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Fast Forward InfoWars, ‘Alt-Right’ Fake News Site, Gets White House Press Credentials
InfoWars, the “alt-right” site that’s been widely blasted for spreading fake news, has acquired credentials to attend White House press briefings. Jerome Corsi, Washington Bureau Chief, https://t.co/8yxnbeoqQC. We have WH PRESS CREDENTIALS. I’m in WH May 22, 2017 pic.twitter.com/ln9aE6nNOB — Jerome Corsi (@jerome_corsi) May 22, 2017 There have been previous attempts from the organization to…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Jake Tapper Schools Sean Spicer on Who’s Using the Word ‘Ban’
Jake Tapper, CNN’s chief political correspondent, has been in rare form lately, taking on President Donald Trump’s White House for its embrace of “alternative facts” and attacks on the media. Now he’s fact-checking Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s claim that the media invented the term “ban” to describe the president’s executive orders on immigration and travel…
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Opinion Why Won’t More Jewish Groups Condemn Trump’s Shameful Nazi Comparisons?
Twice in one day, President-elect Donald Trump compared himself to the victims of Nazi persecution. The first instance was in one of his infamous tweets, responding to two very different media reports, by CNN and BuzzFeed, about intelligence briefings given to Trump last week regarding his relationship with Russia. . “One last shot at me,”…
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Culture All The Yiddish That’s Fit To Print in Easthampton, Massachusetts
Who knew that we loved to listen to the air? Until the death of analogue music we never realized we craved the warmth of vinyl’s atmospheric cracklings, but in 2014 record sales spiked 49%. And so it is with printing. Once we no longer rely for our news on swathes of newsprint hurtling through factories…
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Fast Forward Hamas Allows West Bank Papers in Gaza as Unity Push Gains Pace
The Hamas-run government in the Gaza Strip said on Wednesday it had relaxed a ban on Palestinian newspapers published outside the enclave as a gesture of reconciliation to rival group Fatah after their unity deal last month. The announcement came two days after Palestinian President and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas met Hamas’s leader in exile,…
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Fast Forward Israel Regains ‘Free’ Designation by Freedom House in Annual Report
Israel was the only country in the Middle East with a press designated as free by a Washington think tank. The designation by the Freedom House in its annual report upgraded Israel from not free last year and put the Jewish state in the 14 percent of countries and territories throughout the world considered to…
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