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Opinion The real Kanye West scandal everyone is missing
Unless antisemitic rhetoric is painfully obvious, it gets ignored
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Fast Forward Rep. Lauren Boebert calls on Christians to ‘rise up and take our place in Christ and influence this nation’
The comments come amid a rising trend of Christian nationalism among a segment of conservative politicians, including Marjorie Taylor Greene
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Fast Forward Buffalo Republican: Hitler is ‘the kind of leader we need today’
Carl Paladino, a Congressional candidate in New York, endorsed the German leader’s charisma during a 2021 radio appearance
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Fast Forward GOP Washington state lawmaker apologizes for wearing Yellow Star of David
A Washington state lawmaker has apologized for wearing a yellow Star of David, a universal symbol of the Holocaust, during a recent speech decrying the state government’s coronavirus vaccination campaign as well as restrictions that have been in place since the pandemic began. “It’s an echo from history,” Jim Walsh, a Republican member of the…
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Opinion Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Holocaust tweet was a gift to Democrats
In today’s political environment, where everyone is either a Nazi or communist — and, as ever, the Jews are unhappily stuck in the middle — it was almost bound to happen. Like so many discarded blue face masks spread across the asphalt of a shopping center parking lot, the gauntlet was thrown down on May…
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Fast Forward Report shows younger Jews are less partisan, but Democratic support remains steady
In the weeks after last fall’s presidential election, the heads of the Jewish Democratic Council of America and the Republican Jewish Coalition both filled social-media platforms and email inboxes with seemingly contradictory declarations of victory. Halie Soifer, chief executive of the Democratic council, touted an exit poll conducted by J Street that showed Jewish voters…
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Culture The CPAC stage was shaped like the Othala rune…which is what?
At the just-wrapped Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, headlining speaker Donald Trump made an inflammatory speech from a strange, zig-zagging stage. The speech, of course, drew attention, but it featured largely the kind of content we have grown to expect from the former president. The stage itself, however, drew anger for its shape —…
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Culture The obvious biblical beef with the Golden Trump
Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, two men were seen hauling a gold statue of Donald Trump through the Hyatt Regency Orlando lobby. Clergy, coreligionists and people with eyes for easy metaphors all asked: Where’s the beef? The golden calf jokes aren’t subtle and wry when they make it all obvious like that https://t.co/mNQzwjgGsh…
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Fast Forward Why some Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
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Opinion I’m an Israeli who lives in New York. Here’s why I’m voting for Mamdani
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News How Mamdani became New York’s next mayor, with Jews divided between fierce opposition and fiery support
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Sports It’s so cool that Sandy Koufax was there for that
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Yiddish World A German museum aimed to honor Jewish wit. The result is downright demeaning.
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Opinion The three profound Jewish lessons of Mamdani’s astonishing victory
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News Mamdani’s victory divides Jewish leaders one more way: Whether to say congratulations
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Fast Forward In a first, a ballot initiative to divest from Israel has won at the ballot box in Boston suburb
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