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Fast Forward CNN’s Jeff Zucker Accused of Media Bias by Republican Campaign Operatives
CNN’s Jeff Zucker became a punching bag at a Harvard post-election confab, where Republican operatives accused him of aiding Trump’s rise in the primary with ample free press and favorable treatment. “You showed empty podiums!” senior Marco Rubio adviser Todd Harris screamed at Zucker, as the network president took the stage at the Kennedy School…
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Fast Forward Republican Jews Embrace James Mattis as Defense Chief — Despite Israel ‘Apartheid’ Remarks
General James Mattis, President-elect Trump’s choice to be the next Secretary of Defense, once warned that Israel’s policy of expanding West Bank settlements could lead to an apartheid state. But Jewish Republicans see no problem with this comment. In a statement issued Friday morning, the Republican Jewish Coalition welcomed Mattis’ appointment as a “smart and…
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Opinion Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education? That’s a Tragedy for All American Jews.
For generations of American Jews, public education has been the gateway to American life. It was certainly true for my parents, the children of immigrants; public school taught them not just facts and figures, but alao how to be American — and how to be proud of being American. Which is why the nomination of…
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Opinion Faced With Steve Bannon, Jewish Groups Need To Reach Out to Decent Republicans
As Donald Trump takes his first steps toward staffing his administration, he’s confronting us with yet another conundrum: What to do when the leader of the world’s greatest democracy makes Steve Bannon his designated chief strategist? Bannon, the man who took over the right-wing provocateur website Breitbart News and turned it into the central bulletin…
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Opinion They Went Low With Donald Trump and Steve Bannon — We Should Go Lower
“When they go low, we go high,” said Michelle Obama. Look how well that turned out. For the next four years, progressives must take a lesson from conservatives: When they go low, we must go lower, fiercer, harder, smarter. We must fight unrelentingly to save the country (and planet) we once knew. The same zeal,…
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Opinion A Letter to My Evangelical Friend, Who Betrayed Me (and All Jews) by Voting for Trump
Dear C., Over the years as we’ve gradually become friends, we’ve come to realize how unlikely and how important our bond is. I’m an observant Jew and a political liberal, and you’re an evangelical Christian and a political conservative, and our peoples have been historical enemies for a long time. We thought we were helping…
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Opinion The Breathtaking Hypocrisy of Jews Who Line Up Behind Steve Bannon’s Twisted Vision of America
For many years now, American Jews have been told to worry about anti-Semitism from the left, from those whose criticism of Israel veers into rank de-legitimization of the Jewish state. Well-funded efforts have sprung up to defeat this “new anti-Semitism,” especially on college campuses, and it’s getting to the point where support of the movement…
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Israel News At Western Wall, GOP’s Man in Israel Writes Thank-You Note to God
The head of Israel’s Republicans gave thanks for Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election at the Western Wall on Tuesday, seeing a divine hand in the businessman’s defeat of Hillary Clinton. “I feel fantastic and very grateful and I came here to thank God for the miracle that he performed for us yesterday,” Marc…
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