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The Schmooze Trevor Noah Mocks Trump’s Response To Damning Federal Climate Report
Trevor Noah bashed President Trump on the “Daily Show” for his lukewarm response to the explosive climate report that was released by thirteen federal agencies last week. Trevor Noah (along with the rest of us with common sense) had assumed that the president would “finally come onboard” and attempt to rectify our dire climate condition,…
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News Rabbi Jeffrey Myers Opens Up About Welcoming Trump To A Wounded Pittsburgh
Shabbat was approaching, but Rabbi Jeffrey Myers didn’t have time to write his Saturday morning sermon. And this wasn’t just any Shabbat — it was the first Shabbat after the shooting that killed seven of his congregants, and four others. But on Friday afternoon, he officiated at a funeral. Then he was attending a shiva…
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The Schmooze Michael Cohen Reportedly Saves Elderly Man In Swanky Restaurant
Satan or savior? Some hailed Michael Cohenan American hero after he flipped on turbulent President Trump earlier this year, and some saw him as a nogoodnik turncoat. Either way, you have to salute his quick thinking in reportedly saving an elderly man in an NYC restaurant this week. Once again, the news is much, much…
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Fast Forward 5 Ways Jared and Ivanka Shaped Trump’s Response To Pittsburgh — For Better Or Worse
Critics of President Trump began to blame him for the massacre of 11 Jews at prayer last Shabbat as soon as the news broke, arguing that the killer had justified his actions with Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric. The president’s initial response — or lack of response — to the shooting included jokes about a bad hair…
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News The Bizarro Plot To Smear Robert Mueller Has Some Crazy Jewish Angles
A pro-Trump Jewish hedge fund prodigy and a Seth Rich conspiracy theorist tried to frame special counsel Robert Mueller — yes, that Robert Mueller — for supposed sexual harassment. They hatched a plot that wound up unraveling badly after it was uncovered by a Twitter-famous set of twins and was pitched to star journalist Ronan…
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The Schmooze Pharrell is Not ‘Happy’ — May Sue Trump For Playing Tune At Rally After Pittsburgh Bloodbath
Pharrell Williams is not “Happy” with President Trump right now. The President incongruously played the Williams’ song “Happy” at a rally that occurred shortly after the tragic and deadly shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday. Though this is not the first time the producer’s music has been used at Trump events, this was apparently…
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Fast Forward Trump Attacks ‘Disgraceful’ Pittsburgh Protests In Angry Tweet About Synagogue Bloodbath
A defiant President Trump tweeted Wednesday morning that the sprawling demonstrations against his visit to Pittsburgh in the wake of Saturday’s synagogue massacre were “small” — and denounced coverage of the visit as “disgraceful.” Showing no signs of toning down his partisan and divisive rhetoric, Trump focused attention on himself in his first statement about…
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Fast Forward Dershowitz Says Birthright Citizenship Can’t Be Ended ‘For Better Or For Worse’
President Trump vowed to end the blanket right to citizenship for children born on American soil in an interview with Axios Tuesday morning. But legal eagle Alan Dershowitz, known for his frequent defenses of Trump, says that the 14th Amendment authorizes birthright citizenship and it can’t just be changed by executive order. “[Birthright citizenship] doesn’t…
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Culture How my odious cousin Roy Cohn was responsible for creating Donald Trump — and me
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