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Fast Forward 3 Things About Ezra Cohen-Watnick, The White House Aide At Heart Of Trump Russia Probe
(JTA) — Ezra Cohen-Watnick has been in the spotlight recently following reports that he was the aide behind a White House leak to help back up President Donald Trump’s claim that Barack Obama had wiretapped him. The New York Times reported last month that the Jewish senior director for intelligence on the National Security Council was one of two White…
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Fast Forward Moscow Limmud Sees Record Enrollment Of 2,500
(JTA) — A record 2,500 people signed up for this year’s Limmud conference on Jewish learning in Moscow. Attendance this year at the main event organized by Limmud FSU – an international organization putting together Jewish events in the former Soviet Union — exceeded last year’s tally by 25 percent, organizers said in a statement…
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Fast Forward House Democrats: Revoke Kushner’s Security Clearance Over Russia Investigation
(JTA) — Five House Democrats called for Jared Kushner’s security clearance to be revoked over his alleged ties to Russia. In a letter co-signed by Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) to FBI Director James Comey and Charles Phalen, director of the National Background Investigations Bureau, the Democrats expressed concerns over the alleged failure of the President’s son-in-law…
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Fast Forward House Democrats Ask FBI To Suspend Jared Kushner’s Security Clearance
A group of House Democrats released a letter on Thursday calling on FBI Director James Comey to suspend Jared Kushner’s security clearance after a New York Times report revealed that the presidential advisor’s clearance application failed to disclose dozens of meetings over the last several years with Russian officials. “Lack of candor, particularly regarding contacts…
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Opinion 3 Things Politico Got Wrong In Tying Chabad To Trump’s Russia Scandal
(JTA) — Has Chabad “taken on an outsize importance” in the Trump-Russia scandal? That’s a claim of a recent Politico article detailing a web of connections between Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and a vast network of Chabad benefactors and their associates. It’s long been known that a set of Russian oligarchs are also Chabad mega-donors,…
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Fast Forward Politico Called Anti-Semitic For Accusing Chabad In Trump’s Russia Scandal
A tangled web of relationships ties Donald Trump and his associates to Vladimir Putin’s Russia — and Chabad appears to be right in the middle of them. The Hasidic movement forged an unlikely alliance with the Russian strongman two decades ago just as Trump and others close to him were pursuing a series of lucrative…
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Fast Forward Adam Schiff Blindsided By Nunes Resignation From Russia Probe
Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House’s Intelligence Committee, [said Thursday that he only learned of chairman Devin Nunes’ decision to step aside from an inquiry into ties between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia when the news broke to the entire world. It’s not the first time that the Jewish representative from California…
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News Jared Kushner Suddenly Looms Large In Trump Probe — Is Trouble Ahead For Jewish Golden Boy?
A Washington Post graphic published recently mapped the ties and alleged ties to Russia of President Trump and his associates. The name of Jared Kushner, once the wunderkind of Team Trump, loomed shockingly large within the elaborate web crisscrossing the illustration. The 36-year-old son-in-law and senior adviser to the president has at least three points…
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