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Jewish Disability Activists Push Back Against Republican Health Law Changes
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Close to 200 Jewish disability activists lobbied against proposed Republican changes to Medicaid and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The activists lobbied in Washington on Thursday under the aegis of the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism and the Jewish Federations of North America. In a summary statement, the groups were careful not…
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Polish Police Raid Anti-Xenophobia Center
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – Police raided the offices of the Center for Monitoring Racist and Xenophobic Behavior in Warsaw. The search by police on Friday came at the request of the Bialystok prosecutors’ office, which said it was undertaken in order to “find documentation on activity related to the commission of offenses.” “This is an…
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Stephen Bannon Described Jews As ‘Enablers’ of Jihad in Old Film Treatment
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a treatment describing a documentary on a purported Muslim plan to take over America, Stephen Bannon, now President Donald Trump’s top strategic adviser, described the “American Jewish community” as among unwitting “enablers” of jihad. Bannon, a former banker who transitioned into a career as an ultranationalist propagandist, culminating in his becoming…
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Orthodox Women Clergy Will Continue Ministry After O.U. Ban
NEW YORK (JTA) — Rabba Ramie Smith of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, an Orthodox congregation, says she doesn’t have time to protest the Orthodox Union decision banning its synagogues from hiring women clergy like herself. This weekend, she’s busy organizing a Shabbat conference with Yachad, a group supporting Jews with disabilities. Then she has classes…
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Like Most Federations, JUF of Chicago Tried to Avoid Politics—Til Now
The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago issued a statement earlier this week criticizing the Trump administration’s “sweeping, sudden, and uncoordinated” move to temporarily ban refugees and travelers from seven majority-Muslim nations from entering the United States. As a protest action, that may not sound like much. But it’s an unusual step for the federation, which…
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Did Ivanka and Jared Block Anti-LGBT Executive Order?
(JTA) — Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner reportedly helped push President Donald Trump to uphold a 2014 executive order protecting LGBT people from workplace discrimination. President Trump’s daughter and her husband, who serves as the president’s senior adviser, worked to nix a draft executive order outlining how to roll back some of the protections granted by former president Barack Obama’s…
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Trump’s Settlement Statement Has a Little Something for Everyone
Like a good businessman, Donald Trump managed to keep all parties satisfied after his long-awaited and still-cryptic statement on Israel’s settlement expansion policy. Opponents of the Netanyahu government policy read the statement issued by the White House as a note of reassurance, albeit partial and insufficient, that America’s anti-settlement policy is still in place. At…
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Orthodox Jew Rallies Support for Yemenite Bodegas’ ‘Muslim Ban’ Strike
NEW YORK (JTA) — It’s not uncommon to see Hasidic Jews in Day N Night, a Yemenite-owned corner store in Boro Park, Brooklyn. In fact, the shop caters to the many Orthodox Jewish customers who live in the neighborhood by selling Hebrew and Yiddish-language newspapers and allowing observant Jews to buy things on tab on Shabbat and Jewish holidays,…
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SCOTUS Nominee’s High School ‘Fascism Forever Club’ In His Name Was a Joke
The “Fascism Forever Club” that the Daily Mail stated President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch founded in high school was actually a joke, according to fact-checking website Snopes.com. A spokesman for the school told Snopes that such a club never operated there, and Snopes also quoted America, a Jesuit magazine, which stated that…
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Trump Says Settlement Expansion ‘May Not Help’ Peace
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Settlement expansion “may not be helpful” in achieving peace, the Trump administration said, its first pronouncement on an issue that has for decades confounded U.S.-Israel relations. The White House announcement Thursday evening comes a week after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced major settlement building initiatives in the West Bank and eastern…
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Richard Spencer: By My Definition, Jews Aren’t ‘European,’ or ‘White’
Richard Spencer has decided to put American Jews on the couch, and he’s ready to reveal his session notes: Jews are not European and don’t want to assimilate to white people in the United States. Maybe he should share his thoughts with rabbis and communal leaders, who fret about intermarriage and disengagement from Jewish communal…
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