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Opinion Why is Donald Trump harassing Jews?
Posting that Jews need to 'get their act together' paints a target on our backs
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Culture This social media site is ready to fund a Christian nationalist America
Using a recent PayPal scandal as a springboard, Gab is promoting its new financial app
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Culture Why are we afraid to call Kanye West’s posts antisemitic?
The rapper tweeted that he wanted to go "death con 3 on Jewish people," yet numerous major outlets called this "purported" antisemitism
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Fast Forward A pro-Palestinian YouTuber tried trolling Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn. Here’s what happened.
A viral video pressing Jews to account for the actions of Israel draws complaints — and thousands of Jewish viewers
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Fast Forward Arizona GOP nominee for attorney general invoked antisemitic tropes in past online posts – and continues to do so
Abraham Hamadeh wrote on an online message board that ‘Jews are influential and for the most part rich,' and continues to promote conspiracy theories about George Soros, a Holocaust survivor.
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News Lenny Dykstra tweets as if he’s Jewish. Is it really him behind his words?
Dykstra's Orthodox Jewish ghostwriter says he didn't write derisive tweet about Conservative synagogue
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Culture Seeing ‘Hashem’ or ‘Yiddish’ trending on Twitter? It’s because the platform knows you’re Jewish.
The trending bar on the social media platform has been serving up a lot of haimish terms. But no one is actually talking about them.
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Fast Forward Meta refuses to block Facebook page that Israeli court says incites terror
In a rare turn, the U.S. company that controls Facebook refused to cooperate with Israeli authorities on blocking inciting content, amid the spring's terror wave
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Opinion Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point
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Opinion I run The Jewish Theological Seminary. Here’s the real story about President Isaac Herzog speaking at our commencement
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News Middlebury College Hillel votes to rebrand, distancing from parent group on Israel
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