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Opinion How I Convinced My Russian Jewish Grandmother Not to Vote for Trump
My 80-year-old Russian Jewish grandmother did not vote for Donald Trump. She lives in Massachusetts, so it didn’t make much of a difference in the election’s outcome. Qualitatively, however, her vote mattered. Having started out in Trump’s corner, like the overwhelming majority of ex-Soviet Jews, particularly older ones, she allowed herself to be persuaded by…
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News When Trump Says ‘Globalists,’ Some Fans Hear ‘The Jews’
Throughout Donald Trump’s campaign he fashioned himself as a brash outsider, up against what he said was an economic and political system rigged against the American people. The system worked for the benefit of itself and shadowy, unnamed forces in the banks, the media and the government. Trump and his supporters call those forces globalists….
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Opinion Let’s Create New Jewish Rituals To Cope With the Trump Era
In the wake of this toxic election season and its deeply destabilizing outcome, many people have been scrambling for ways to react, to process and to organize. From this environment of confusion, many small Jewish grassroots efforts have sprung up, trying to find ways to understand and react to a new world — through the…
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Israel News Israeli Company That Built Gaza Fence Sees Opportunities in Trump Era
The Israeli company that fenced in the Gaza Strip has seen its stock price rise since Trump’s win. Because Magal Security Systems Ltd. specializes in “smart” electronic fences and other security systems, it is celebrating Donald Trump’s election win as a boon to business. “Trump’s victory brings great opportunities for anyone in the security and…
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Culture What If Mike Pence Got Booed at ‘Fiddler on the Roof?’
Picture this: It’s a lovely evening at the Broadway Theater and “Fiddler on the Roof” is nearing its finale. Soon, the little village of Anatevka — beset by pogroms and the disruption of tradition — will be little more than a memory. Some will try to adhere to the old ways, others will try their…
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News Trump’s Muslim Ban Has an Advocate in Attorney General Pick Jeff Sessions
Donald Trump on has announced his pick for attorney general: Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, one of the most conservative U.S. lawmakers and an early supporter of the president-elect’s proposal on banning Muslims entering the country. In a November 18 statement, Trump called Sessions a “world-class legal mind” who is “admired by legal scholars and virtually…
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Culture How Hitler Changed The Bible — and Why It Still Matters in Donald Trump’s America
In the days of Hitler, the Bible was condensed and transformed. Throughout the Third Reich, the “Old Testament” was taken out, thus erasing the Jewish contribution. Imagine: a 12-year-old German reader in 1945 might have been entirely unaware of Genesis, Exodus, or Isaiah. It wasn’t just book burning, it was a replacement of text. It…
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News Pro-Palestinian Activists Push Cause as Protests Against Donald Trump Roil Nation
As thousands of protestors rally in the days after Donald Trump’s upset victory in last week’s election against Hillary Clinton, pro-Palestinian activists are joining their ranks — and hope to join their national struggle to the growing protest movement in America. “The fight is not easy back home and it’s not easy here now with…
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Opinion I’m a Jew of color. Ta-Nehisi Coates can’t apply U.S. lessons to Israel
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Culture How my odious cousin Roy Cohn was responsible for creating Donald Trump — and me
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Fast Forward Was the viral Ta-Nehisi Coates interview a hit piece or fair play? A journalism ethics expert weighs in.
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