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Opinion Hebrew School Isn’t Supposed To Be ‘Fun’
As a Jewish Soviet immigrant living in a tony New York City suburb, I don’t always fit in. Smalltalk in our WASPy town tends to center around real estate prices, traffic, and sports scores. Even the Jewish moms have impossibly shiny hair and perfect, glossy nails, their toned bodies forever clad in yoga pants. My…
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Fast Forward Kushner’s Security Clearance Restored After Second Meeting With Mueller
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner had his White House security clearance restored Wednesday, a person familiar with the matter told CNN. Kushner was stripped of his interim clearance in February amid a change in procedures following the resignation of Rob Porter, the President’s staff secretary, who had been allowed to remain…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner Was ‘Infuriated’ When Russians Didn’t Deliver Hillary Dirt
Jared Kushner became “agitated” and “infuriate[d]” when a meeting arranged with a Russian Lawyer at Trump Tower in 2016 ended up focusing on U.S. sanctions rather than promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton, a friend of the Trumps who helped set up the meeting testified to Congress. British music producer Rob Goldstone’s testimony to the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Investor Linked To Russia Probe Bought Alt-Right Domain Names
NEW YORK (JTA) — The CEO of an investment firm linked to an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election said he bought website domain names linked to the “alt-right” movement in a personal capacity. Frederick Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, said he had for years bought domain names related to trending topics…
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Culture Q & A: How The Kishinev Pogrom Shaped History, From The Bolsheviks To The NAACP
Close to noon on April 6, 1903 — Easter Sunday — as families took in the newly pleasant weather in Kishinev, then part of Russia, a group of young boys started to hassle some of the Jews who had joined the Christian families in Chuflinskii Square. It happened every year. The period around Easter always…
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Fast Forward Did Michael Cohen Get $500K Payoff From Jewish Oligarch?
The lawyer for adult-film star Stormy Daniels, who says she was paid $130,000 by Cohen to stay quiet about a sexual encounter with Trump, on Tuesday claimed that the longtime attorney for President Trump, Michael Cohen, received $500,000 from a Russian billionaire in the months after the 2016 election. In a tweet and report released…
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Opinion Actually, Netanyahu’s Speech Was A Warning — And Not For Trump
Israeli PM Netanyahu’s cartoonish presentation to the world on Monday of Iran’s stolen nuclear archive predictably aroused a broad spectrum of reaction. Much of the scorn heaped on the presentation is technically correct. There was nothing really new here. There was no smoking gun of Iranian violation of the JCPOA nuclear deal. And this was…
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Fast Forward Matzo Has An Unlikely Fan: Vladimir Putin
The Chief Rabbi of Russia has let out a secret about his president — Vladimir Putin loves matzo and snacks on it all year long. Rabbi Berel Lazar told reporters about the president’s appetite for the unleavened flatbread at an event for the Jewish organization Limmud FSU in Moscow last week, Arutz Sheva reported. While…
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