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Culture Donald Trump is accused of violating the Espionage Act — so were the Rosenbergs
As some Jewish targets of federal investigations can tell the former president, these charges are no small matter
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Culture In a delightful new Purim film, Esther is a secret agent in Argentina
In its long history, the Purim story has had its fair share of reboots. Because, in every generation, a new Haman arrives to oppress us, that genocidal adviser has worn the face of Hitler and, when Stalin suffered a stroke on Purim, averting his own dire plans for Jews, he wore a different mustache entirely….
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Opinion Six Times The U.S. And Israel Were At Loggerheads Over Intel
The revelation that Israel was the source of secret intelligence President Trump leaked to the Russians has potentially placed another strain on U.S.-Israeli relations as Trump prepares for his first foreign trip including a visit to Israel. However, this is only the latest in a litany of intelligence snafus between the U.S. and Israel over…
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Opinion After Comey’s Bombshell, Will Republicans Finally Act Like Americans?
There was a certain ironic justice in FBI Director James Comey’s sensational testimony March 20 before the House Intelligence Committee. Comey testified that the bureau is investigating “whether there was any coordination” between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and “the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in last year’s election.” In other words, the FBI believes it…
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Opinion You’ve Heard About Muslims Getting Profiled. What About Jews?
Trigger warning: This column may offend some readers. It concerns profiling of Muslims (for terrorism) and of Jews (for espionage). The issues aren’t as different as you might wish. Proceed at your own risk. Let’s begin with New York dentist Gershon Pincus. A Brooklyn-born Orthodox Jew, age 62, he applied in 2013 for a part-time…
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News Abbe Lowell Is on a Legal Mission
From representing the Democrats in Bill Clinton’s 1999 impeachment hearings to defending New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez against recent corruption charges, Abbe Lowell boasts a client portfolio that places him snugly within the Beltway’s elite lawyer club. But in recent years the Jewish white-collar criminal defense attorney has taken on an anti-establishment cause. In courts…
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Breaking News McCarthy-Era Prisoner Asks Judge to Overturn Espionage Conviction
More than half a century after a jury implicated Miriam Moskowitz in the Cold War atomic espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the 98-year-old retired New Jersey math teacher is asking a federal judge to throw out her 1950 conviction, the New York Daily News reported. One of the last living links to the…
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