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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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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Opinion Donald Trump’s Messianic Vision for America
I do not recognize the America that Donald Trump described last night in his endless speech accepting the Republican nomination for President. I expect the nominee of the party out of power to rail about what’s gone wrong in the four or eight years of the incumbent administration — our system is set up as…
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News Trump Won’t Take Position on Two-State Solution, Says Aide
Jason Greenblatt, Donald Trump’s adviser on Israel, who recently increased his role and serves as the campaign’s de-facto liaison to the Jewish community, worked the crowd and the media in Cleveland, making the case for Trump on issues relating to his views on Israel. In an interview with Israel’s Channel 1 TV, which aired Thursday,…
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Fast Forward A whites-only, no-Jews community says it’s found a legal loophole. A Jewish lawmaker in Pennsylvania wants to close it.
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Culture Why do Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas?
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Opinion What if Donald Trump puts his name on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum?
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