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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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Fast Forward Jewish Democrat Josh Gottheimer Prevails in N.J. House Race
After an ugly contest that filled the airwaves with attack ads, Democrat Josh Gottheimer has won a New Jersey congressional race against Republican incumbent Scott Garrett. After all the ballots were tallied on Wednesday, the Jewish former Bill Clinton aide held a 3% edge over his Tea Party rival, a bright spot for liberals in…
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Fast Forward Ari Fleischer Rescinds Endorsement of Donald Trump at Last Moment
— Ari Fleischer, a White House press secretary under President George W. Bush, said he will leave his presidential ballot blank, walking back his endorsement of Donald Trump earlier this year. Fleischer, who serves on the board of the Republican Jewish Coalition, cited several reasons for his change of heart in a Washington Post op-ed. “Trump lost…
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News This Jewish Democrat Raised $13K for GOP on GoFundMe After ‘Nazi’ Firebombing
As the November election fast approaches, Democrats and Republicans are in the usual arms race to raise campaign cash. But in a rare moment of across the aisle solidarity, Democrats led an online fundraiser to fix a North Carolina Republican Party office damaged by an explosion last week. “Even though we deeply, deeply, disagree with…
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Opinion This Jewish Woman Is the New Face of the ‘Never Trump’ Republicans
As we’ve watched the rise of Donald Trump with abject horror over the past year, us “Never Trump” Republicans have stuck together because we’ve had to. We’ve helped each other withstand the onslaught of pressure to vote for what many Republicans perceive to be the lesser of two evils. One of the political friends I’ve…
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Opinion Americans are waking up to right-wing antisemitism. We’re still ignoring the root problem
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