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News When Eric Greitens, Missouri’s First Jewish Governor, Eyed The White House
Eric Greitens was once a rising Jewish star in the Republican Party. Now he is fighting for his political survival — and his freedom — after being accused of sex assault by an ex-mistress in a damning April 2018 report by the state’s GOP-controlled legislature. On the weekend before his January 9 swearing-in ceremony, Eric…
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News How Sebastian Gorka Catapulted From Far-Right Obscurity In Hungary To The White House
Sebastian Gorka, who sits in the Trump White House as deputy assistant to the president just five years after becoming a U.S. citizen, has faced growing controversy about his academic and professional credentials. Critics have also highlighted his past association with racist and anti-Semitic figures in Hungary, where he lived as a citizen for many…
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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 Poll: 87% of Democrats, 53% of Republicans Say Anti-Semitism A ‘Serious’ Problem
(JTA) — Seventy percent of American voters see anti-Semitism in the country as a “very” or “somewhat serious” problem, up from 49 percent a month ago, according to a new poll. The responses differed by party identification, with an overwhelming majority of Democrats, 87 percent, seeing anti-Semitism as a “very” or “somewhat serious” problem, and…
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News Jewish Conservatives Feel At Home At CPAC
At least 150 Jewish activists attended the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC this week, a sign of a growing contingent of Jewish hawks who are not put off by Steve Bannon and, at least in part, are willing to accept President Trump as a champion of their beliefs. “It’s not about personalities and not…
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Fast Forward This Jewish Republican Is Ducking Rowdy Town Hall Meetings
After hecklers shouted down Republicans in their home district town hall meetings this week, one New York representative says he’s found a way to avoid the embarrassment: don’t go. Instead, Lee Zeldin, one of two Jewish Republicans in the House, says he is doing “tele-town hall” meetings by phone. In an interview with CNN Zeldin…
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Opinion It’s Time For Republican Senators To Stand Up To Trump
President Donald J. Trump is a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. A delusional narcissist. An orange-faced windbag. President Trump is a megalomaniac strongman with a relentless focus on dividing Americans. A sniveling coward and a pathological liar. President Trump bragged about preying upon women. He has shown complete disregard for common decency. He opts to mock…
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Fast Forward Republican Jewish Lawmaker Cancels Town Hall, Citing Protests
Lee Zeldin, Congress’ lone Jewish Republican, has canceled an April town hall event, after protesters disrupted a recent appearance of his at a Long Island, New York rotary club. “This meeting was co-opted, renamed and re-branded by a group of liberal activists who were already holding strategy meetings to turn it into a disruptive show…
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News Who is Alan Garber, the Jewish Harvard president who stood up to Trump over antisemitism?
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Opinion My Jewish moms group ousted me because I work for J Street. Is this what communal life has come to?
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