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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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Opinion 10 Troubling Things About the GOP Platform (Unless You’re a Straight White Christian Male)
Remember that thing where the Republicans lost the presidency in 2012 and Republican National Convention Chairman Reince Priebus was all about giving the GOP a makeover to appeal to the youth, minorities, non-Christians, women and more progressive-leaning voters? Yeah, that never happened. And the GOP’s recently released 2016 platform is the most conservative, anti-progressive thing…
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News Jewish Republicans Slip Into Crisis Mode as Donald Trump’s Convention Looms
Lew Eisenberg, a New Jersey investor and longtime political fundraiser, serves as finance chair of Trump Victory, the main fundraising arm of the Trump campaign. He holds the same position for the Republican National Committee. However, he has yet to make any personal contributions to the Trump campaign. Nor was he active in the pro-Trump…
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News Rabbi Haskel Lookstein Drops Out of Republican Convention Amid Modern Orthodox Outcry
Bowing to mounting pressure from Modern Orthodox circles, Rabbi Haskel Lookstein decided not to give his planned invocation at the Republican national convention in Cleveland next week. “The whole matter turned from rabbinic to political, something which was never intended,” Lookstein wrote Friday afternoon in a letter he addressed to the “Ramaz Family,” referring to…
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Fast Forward Republican Convention Begs Sheldon Adelson for $6M as Sponsors Shun Trump
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Republican Party convention is asking Sheldon Adelson to cover a $6 million shortfall triggered by sponsors walking out over the nominee, Donald Trump. Politico reported Thursday that the appeal to the casino magnate came July 12, just six days before the July 18 launch of the convention in Cleveland. The convention…
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News Donald Trump Taps Ivanka’s Rabbi Haskel Lookstein for GOP Convention
Rabbi Haskel Lookstein may not be kosher in the eyes of Israel’s chief rabbinate, but he is more than good enough for Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump. The New York rabbi, whose conversions to Judaism, including that of Trump’s daughter Ivanka, were recently rejected by Israeli chief rabbinate will deliver an invocation during the four-day…
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