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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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Opinion How Donald Trump’s Republican Party Veered to Right of Benjamin Netanyahu on Israel
Several weeks ago, the Republican Jewish Coalition unleashed an online advertising campaign with three dramatic, 30-second ads asserting that radical, anti-Israel extremists had taken over the Democratic Party. One ad focused on Cornel West, the firebrand who called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal, another on the Arab-American activist James Zogby, and the…
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Fast Forward Republican Convention Looks Shockingly Short on Jews — Is Donald Trump To Blame?
Yes, there are Jews attending the Republican National Convention next week in Cleveland. But they’ll be barely visible, and the reason has everything to do with the presumptive nominee, Donald Trump. The Republican Jewish Coalition usually rolls out major shebangs at party conventions, starting with a news conference where you can count on director Matthew…
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News Republicans Prepare to Drop Mention of ‘Palestine’ From Platform
Taking yet another shift to the right on the Israeli – Palestinian conflict, the Republican Party is poised to drop reference to Palestinians from its platform and to reinforced the call for keeping Jerusalem “undivided” under Israeli rule. According to a CNN report based on a leaked first draft of the platform presented to party’s…
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News In Major Shift, GOP Rejects Two-State Solution, Says Israel Not “Occupier”
Rejecting decades-old policy, the Republican Party approved on July 12 a platform that does not include a call for a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Instead, it defers to Israel to determine whether it is interested in negotiating a deal with the Palestinians, and omits any reference to a solution that would establish an…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Adviser Says GOP Might Reject Two-State Solution
A policy adviser to Donald Trump that the Republican party might be due to assert more support for Israeli settlements, and possibly reject all together the idea of a two-state solution, which has long been a pillar of both Democratic and Republican policy in the region. David Friedman, a real estate lawyer and bankruptcy expert who Trump has described…
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