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Breaking News Michigan Republican Sorry for Tall Tale About Jewish Wedding Bar Tab
— A candidate for the Michigan state legislature apologized for saying a Jewish lawmaker asked a lobbying firm to pay for the bar tab at his daughter’s wedding. Steve Marino, a Republican and former lobbyist running for the Michigan House of Representatives, was recorded by a Democrat as saying that the Jewish chairman of the state Senate’s…
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Breaking News Republicans in Israel Launch Quixotic Push for Donald Trump
The Israeli branch of the U.S. Republican party began a campaign on Monday to get American voters living in Israel to cast absentee ballots in favor of Donald Trump. According to the Israeli chapter of the Republican party, around 300,000 Americans are eligible to vote in the November presidential elections. They live in Israel or…
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Opinion Republicans Want To Teach the Bible in Public Schools. But Which Bible, Exactly?
The Republican Party’s new platform calls for teaching the Bible as literature in public schools. But which Bible, exactly, would the Republicans approve of? The idea of the Bible taught in public schools has a fraught Constitutional history. For the Jewish community, it can bring back memories of “prayer in the schools” or mandatory participation…
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Breaking News Internet Heats Up Over Comparison of Trump’s Words on Clinton To Rhetoric Preceding Rabin Assassination
The comparison between Donald Trump’s comments about what “Second Amendment people” can do to stop Hillary Clinton and the violent rhetoric that preceded the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 is heating up the Internet. At a rally in North Carolina, Trump said that Republicans who are not happy with Clinton’s comments…
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Breaking News Republican Jewish Coalition Ad Brands Democrats ‘Anti-Israel’
NEW YORK — An ad from the Republican Jewish Coalition accuses the Democratic Party of being “stridently anti-Israel,” featuring a string of attendees at last week’s Democratic convention criticizing Israel. Released Friday and titled “This Isn’t the Old Democrat Party Anymore,” the ad claims that “anti-Israel Democrats are on full display at the Democratic Convention in…
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News Rabbi Haskel Lookstein’s Long Hot Summer in the Spotlight
For Rabbi Haskel Lookstein it’s been a challenging summer. A widely admired New York rabbi, Lookstein has faced down this over-heated season at the tail end of a long career as a beloved and respected spiritual leader among Manhattan’s elite. He has, among other things, long presided over Manhattan’s East Side synagogue Kehilath Jeshurun and…
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News Donald Trump Tweets Insults at ‘Little’ Michael Bloomberg as Billionaire Feud Heats Up
We no longer have to wonder about the identity of the “little guy” Donald Trump said he wanted to smack. The Republican nominee fired off tweets Friday morning, leaving little doubt that he was referring to former New York City mayor and fellow billionaire, Michael Bloomberg, who denounced the Donald at the Democratic convention. “Little”…
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Breaking News Did Ivanka Trump (Yes, the Jewish Speaker) Just Steal the Show at Republican Convention?
At times, the speech was drowned out by the cheering crowds in the arena of the Republican National Convention. Social media crowned a new political star. Some Republicans said they were seeing the U.S. president they longed for. It was Ivanka Trump’s night. The eldest daughter of New York businessman-turned-presidential nominee Donald Trump almost stole…
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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