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Breaking News First Survey Of All U.S. Jewish Federations Finds No Illegalities, But Still Cites Some Problems
Larry Cohler-Esses A first-ever comprehensive survey of all Jewish federations in the United States has found no evidence of illegalities at them but has identified some with financial practices that the study characterizes as suggesting they are run “less like volunteer organizations and more like family firms.” The review, conducted over the course of a…
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Fast Forward Israel Scraps Plan For Database Of American Jewish Students
The Israeli government has suspended a plan to create a database of the names of all Jewish college students in the U.S., Haaretz reported. The plan was scuttled after Haaretz released an article detailing the controversial initiative. The company that was supposed to run the initiative, Mosaic United, is run by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora…
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News How Trump Threw A Bone To Poland’s Populists — And Whitewashed Their Anti-Semitism
The Polish government can claim a huge victory in the fight over the country’s honor as well as its campaign to rewrite history and erase the stains of Poland’s past. President Donald Trump, the leader of the free world, adopted the Polish narrative of victimhood and its unilateral pretension of innocence in its entirety, granting…
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Opinion ‘Modest’ Ivanka Trump Did Nothing Wrong At Western Wall
Before President Donald Trump and his family members made their way to the Western Wall speculation was rife, as to whether or not they would obey the gender separation rules and split up to the women’s and men’s sections. One might think that there would be no technical reason for the foursome – the president…
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News Jared Kushner Is Architect Of Trump’s Daring Mideast Push — And It Could Backfire On Him Badly
On Sunday night, as President Trump was concluding a successful two-day visit to Saudi Arabia, the White House distributed a very rare press release: a statement attributed directly, “on the record”, to Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner. “The president asked us to plan a trip that would help unite the world against intolerance…
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News Massive Fire Destroys 120-Year-Old Synagogue On Lower East Side
One hundred and twenty years of Jewish history on Manhattan’s Lower East Side came to a tragic ending on Sunday night, as fire destroyed Beth Hamedrash Hagadol, one of the oldest synagogues in New York. For hours, smoke billowed above the neighborhood, once the heart of Jewish life in the city, and residents gathered to…
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Israel News Is A Jewish Group Funding Killers While The U.S. Slams Palestinians For Doing The Same Thing?
At the White House on Wednesday, President Trump admonished Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas to “resolve” the issue of paying the families of Palestinian terrorists to show that he is serious about peace. But Palestinians might not be the only ones making controversial payments to violent offenders in their midst. Now, a liberal American Jewish…
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Fast Forward Is Netanyahu Deleting Critical Facebook Comments?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Facebook page appears to have been scrubbed of critical comments over the last several months, even those written in polite language. A Haaretz review of Netanyahu’s Facebook profile, which counts more than 2 million followers, found that dozens of comments from both left and right wing critics of the Prime…
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