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News Did Jared Kushner Break Shabbat to Help Donald Trump Survive Tape Crisis?
Jared Kushner broke his usual Shabbat routine to help his father-in-law, Donald Trump, through a crisis sparked by the release of blockbuster tapes showing the presidential candidate lewdly discussing women. Kushner is an observant Orthodox Jew who normally does not work during Shabbat. But as the New York Times reported, he was among a group…
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News All About the Liberal Professor Who Predicts Donald Trump Will Win — He’s Never Been Wrong
Alan Lichtman made his first presidential prediction in 1984 and has gotten them all right ever since. He credits this prophetic success to a scientific model which never fails. And this model indicates that come January, Donald Trump will be moving to the White House. But now, for the first time since he took on…
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Breaking News Sheldon Adelson Reclaims Spot Near Top of Megadonor List — Finally
It took a while. But Republican casino mogul Sheldon Adelson finally reached his natural position – as a top election year megadonor. According to a Washington Post report, which tallied political giving through the end of August, Sheldon and Miriam Adelson are now ranked the third largest donors to super PACs, with $21.5 million already…
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News Jason Kander’s Got Broadway in His Blood — and He’s Running for Senate From Missouri
The United States Senate has lots of outsized Jewish personalities, from Al Franken to Chuck Schumer to Bernie Sanders. If the polls in Missouri’s Senate race keep narrowing, their ranks might grow next January with the addition of Jason Kander, the young Democratic challenger who’s running close to Republican incumbent Roy Blunt. The Real Clear…
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Opinion The Orthodox Case for Hillary Clinton — and Against Donald Trump
The American Jewish Committee released the first national poll of Jewish voters earlier in September, and the news is good for Hillary Clinton: Jewish voters prefer her to Donald Trump by a 3–1 margin. But who are those Trump supporters? In Florida, a crucial swing state where the Jewish vote could actually tip the state…
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Opinion From Rosh Hashanah to Election Day, It’s a Season of Repentance Like No Other
‘Today the world is born” — Hayom harat olam. These are among the most electric words in all of Jewish sacred liturgy. They’re recited by the congregation immediately after the blowing of the shofar, the ram’s horn, at midday on the New Year holiday, Rosh Hashanah. The words are especially electric this year, because they…
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The Schmooze Howard Stern Feels Trumped Up By First Debate
Howard Stern never expected he’d figure into an American presidential race. The talk-show host told BuzzFeed News that it felt surreal when he got name-checked at Monday night’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, as the candidates disputed Trump’s opposition to the Iraq War. “Now I can check that off on my bucket list,”…
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News ‘Alt-Right’ Hears Just Enough Dog Whistles To Stick With Donald Trump
Donald Trump may have angered some in the so called “alt-right” with his debate jibe about a 400 pound hacker. But most extreme-right activists were looking for other other code-worded racially loaded messages from Trump — and analysts who track white supremacists and anti-Semitic activists say they may have heard just enough to keep them…
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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