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Jewish Candidate Launches Bid for Illinois Governor—And It’s Not Pritzker
As of Monday morning, there’s a Jew in the 2018 race to be governor of Illinois. But not the one most people were expecting. Instead of entrepreneur and billionaire philanthropist J.B. Pritzker, the Jew on the ballot is Democrat Daniel Biss, a state senator from north suburban Evanston, who announced his candidacy in a 25-minute-long…
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Leaning In: Ivanka To Get Security Clearance And White House Office, After All
President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, is getting an office in the White House West Wing, stepping up her highly visible role in helping advise her father. A White House official on Monday confirmed reports that Trump’s 35-year-old daughter would be getting her own West Wing space, as well as access to classified information and…
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Chuck Schumer Slams Proposed Trump Budget Cuts To Security Grants
NEW YORK (JTA) — Sen. Charles Schumer slammed President Donald Trump’s budget proposal that could jeopardize a security assistance program for nonprofits that benefits Jewish institutions, citing threats to Jewish sites across the United States. “At a time where perpetrators are terrorizing the Jewish community across the country, even here in New York, it makes no…
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Toronto Hate Crimes Increase, With Jews Targeted The Most
(JTA) — Reports of hate crimes in Toronto increased by 8 percent, with the city’s Jewish community targeted the most, according to a police report compiling last year’s data. Hate crimes in the city increased to 145 in 2016 from 134 the previous year, the Toronto Police reported. Forty-three of the reported attacks, or 30 percent,…
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David Stern Elected Third-Generation Leader Of Reform Rabbis
(JTA) — Rabbi David Stern of Dallas has been installed as president of the Reform movement’s Central Conference of American Rabbis, the third generation in his family to hold the title. Stern, 55, the senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El, was installed by the rabbinical group as its 61st president on Monday during its annual convention in Atlanta….
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Mel Gibson Now Donates To Holocaust Survivors
(JTA) — Mel Gibson clearly knows he has a long road to winning back support from the Jewish community. But it seems as if he is willing to try. The movie star — known for a drunken anti-Semitic rant and promoting the idea that the Jews killed Jesus in “The Passion of the Christ” —…
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Mexican Jewish Teen Challenged To Cook Non-Kosher Food On TV Reality Show
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A 13-year-old Jewish girl who cooked pork during a primetime reality show on Mexican TV said “my grandfather is going to kill me.” Batia Bresca was clearly uncomfortable cooking non-kosher food during the premiere of the Mexican edition of “MasterChef Junior 2017” last week and invoked Jewish law when a referee asked…
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Florida Girl Makes Hundreds of Painted Rocks to Decorate Vandalized Headstones
(JTA) — A 6-year-old Florida girl has sent hundreds of rocks that she painted to place on headstones vandalized in Jewish cemeteries in St. Louis and Philadelphia. Ayel Morgenstern of Parkland took up the project after seeing a news report about the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in St. Louis and that one of the toppled headstones was that of…
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Over 100 Swastika Leaflets Left At Virginia Tech Chabad
(JTA) — More than 100 leaflets with hand-drawn swastikas on them were found dropped on the front yard of the Chabad Jewish Student center at Virginia Tech. The leaflets were discovered at the student center located across the street from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, on Saturday afternoon by Chabad…
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Hitler’s ‘Piece Of Crap’ Painting On Display In Italy
ROME (JTA) – A “piece of crap” painting by Adolf Hitler is on display in a recently opened exhibition in northern Italy on the theme of madness. The small, untitled oil painting, on loan from a private German collector and never before exhibited, shows a seated man and a standing man at the front of a long,…
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Jewish Militants Seek White Nationalist Alliance — But Draw The Line At Nazis
Followers of the radical Jewish militant Meir Kahane are aligning themselves with white nationalists and the “alt-right.” “I am a Jewish nationalist first and foremost, but Jews are white, so naturally I recognize the logic behind white nationalism,” said Jonathan Stern, a New York-based Kahanist, in an interview with Amerika.org, a website in the “alt-right”…
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