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Opinion It’s Time To Choose Whether To Be Progressive Or To Be Anti-Trump
Democrats need a plan, and fast. Each new day brings another appalling revelation about the Trump administration’s endless capacity for incompetence and misbehavior. With each new outrage, a flock of Democrats takes to the streets or to the nearest Washington microphone, puffing out their chests and sputtering in helpless rage. And as they flail, Donald…
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Fast Forward Dan Lederman Elected Chair of South Dakota Republicans
(JTA) — Former South Dakota State Sen. Dan Lederman was elected the state’s new Republican Party chairman. The vote Saturday, in which Lederman unseated incumbent chairwoman Pam Roberts, was 73 to 53. Lederman becomes the first candidate for the job in recent memory to win without the governor’s endorsement, the local newspaper the Argus Leader…
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Opinion This Week In Anti-Semitism: Duma Defamation And Heartless Valentines
The Forward plans to regularly monitor the surge of anti-Semitism in many parts of the country and the world. The mission of this column is not to unduly alarm, but rather to raise awareness of a disturbing trend that, from some vantage points, can prove difficult to spot. 1) Republicans Keep On Omitting Jews from…
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Opinion We’ll Lose College Students If Israel Becomes a Right-Wing Republican Cause
(JTA) — For decades, supporters of the U.S.-Israel relationship have insisted on strong bipartisanship rather than allying their cause with the Democrats or Republicans. So even while a typical bit of punditry over the past few presidencies was to assert that Bill Clinton, or George W. Bush, or Barack Obama was “the most pro-Israel president…
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Community Jews Should Demand A Special Investigation Into Trump’s Potential Tax Evasion
The Jewish community should join with the attorneys named below to demand that our government finally investigate Donald Trump for tax evasion. We’re two short weeks away from the day on which Donald Trump will gain control of the only government agencies with the power to investigate and prosecute him for federal tax evasion. The…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Gilman, Upstate New York Republican Congressman, Dies at 94
— Benjamin Gilman, who served as a Republican congressman from New York for more than 30 years and who was a pro-Israel voice in Congress, has died. Gilman died on Saturday at a veterans hospital in New York at the age of 94. Gilman was first elected to Congress in 1972 and served 15 full…
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Community The League of Defamation
Raymond Donovan, President Reagan’s Secretary of Labor, was repeatedly investigated and cleared — including by the FBI and Justice Department — of apparently politically-motivated accusations of bribing union officials, mob connections and fraud by his construction company. Still, in 1985, a politically ambitious Democratic Bronx District Attorney resurrected those accusations, and secured a highly-publicized 137-count…
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Community I’m a Jew Who Voted for Trump. To Keep My Support, Here’s What He Must Do Next.
I lost, at least temporarily, some friends and social media outlets thanks to the recent election — but I may have gained a far broader appreciation of the greatness and opportunities for America’s future. Enough time has passed for the various realities of the election to settle in. I didn’t start watching returns until 10:30…
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