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Opinion Why Jews Need To Band Together With ‘Subgroups’ That Steve King Attacked
What do you do when your political party gets described as mostly “old white people” on national television? If you’re Rep. Steve King of Iowa, you go full-on, double-barrel white supremacist. Speaking on a MSNBC news panel discussion on Monday, King took issue with the suggestion that soon there won’t be enough white people to…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Comments Shut Down Chat on Republican Convention Live Stream
A barrage of anti-Semitic comments shut down the Chat alongside the live YouTube feed from the Republican National Convention on Monday afternoon, Raw Story reported. As former Hawaiian Governor Linda Lingle made scathing comments about the Democrats lack of support for Israel, anti-Semitic trolls wrote “MAKE AMERICA JEWISH AGAIN,” “press h for hitler,” “F——————- THE…
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Fast Forward Debbie Wasserman Schultz Slams Donald Trump From Inside GOP Convention
Democratic National Committee chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz strongly denounced Donald Trump Monday in a live interview mere feet from the GOP convention stage as “the most divisive, bigoted, unprepared, unqualified major-party candidate that has ever run.” Wasserman Schultz, who is in charge of her party’s convention next week, added that while it will showcase…
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News Little-Known Rabbi Delivers GOP Convention Invocation in Place of Haskel Lookstein
The Republican National Convention turned to a little-known Ohio police rabbi to deliver an invocation after Rabbi Haskel Lookstein pulled out over the weekend amid protests. Rabbi Ari Wolf took to the stage at the Quicken Loans arena to give an invocation that combined Jewish prayers and phrases in Hebrew. Wolf used the term “avinu…
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Life Jewish Grandma Gets Naked at Republican Convention — but It’s Not About Donald Trump
As the sun rose over downtown Cleveland Sunday morning, Marsha Besuner Klausner wore a bandana festooned with American flag pins — and nothing else. As the 65-year-old Jewish grandmother stood nude with a group of 99 other women on the day before the Republican National Convention, Klausner couldn’t stop thinking about how great it was…
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News The ‘Kippah Guy’ Comes to Cleveland, Bearing Donald Trump (and Hillary) Yarmulkes
Marc Daniels, better known as “The Kippah Guy,” isn’t at the Republican National Convention this week in Cleveland for politics. On the street near the Quicken Loans Arena, he sells yarmulkes in both Democrat blue and Republican red emblazoned with the names of the party candidates in Hebrew and English. Instead, what matters to Daniels…
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News Republican Convention Liveblog, Day 1
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. This liveblog is now closed. Click here to follow Day 2 live. Today’s convention theme, according to the Republican National Convention, is Make America Safe Again. According to the convention website, “From attacks on our own soil and overseas to the tragedy in Benghazi, the policies of Barack Obama and…
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Opinion Rabbi Haskel Lookstein Would Have Schooled Donald Trump at the Republican Convention — If You’d Let Him
Nechama Liss-Levinson wrote an impassioned piece in these pages last week, demanding of the rabbi at the Ramaz School (her daughter’s alma mater), “Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, How Can You Shill for Donald Trump at Republican Convention?” Liss-Levinson, a Manhattan psychologist, has presumably never attended a political convention, either Democratic or Republican. If she had, she…
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