A scandalous Jewish NBA rivalry is taking shape — in the owner’s box
Think Jacob and Esau, but with home financing
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Sports Mitzvah or shanda? Suns owner Ishbia grabs ball, annoys MVP
The Forward’s sporting correspondents debate last night’s NBA donnybrook
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Sports Phoenix Suns’ new owner played for his hometown Maccabi team
Mat Ishbia, a walk-on at Michigan State, replaced another Jewish owner who was mired in scandal
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Opinion Old antisemitic tropes found new life in Phoenix
On Oct. 29, a video emerged of an anti-vaxxer ranting at a local school board meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, where she used a public comment period to espouse hateful conspiracies about Jews, whom she accused of controlling the pharmaceutical industry. Her accusations dripped with many of the classic conspiratorial tropes that have dogged Jews for…
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Fast Forward I saw a Nazi flag at a Sanders rally and I had to act — for my Jewish dad
Editor’s note: A teenaged boy and a friend tore down the Nazi flag a protestor unfurled at Thursday’s Bernie Sanders rally in Phoenix. This is the teenager’s account of the event, lightly edited for clarity. He spoke on the condition of anonymity out of concerns for his personal safety. I decided to go to the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Phoenix Family Leaves Anti-Semitic Graffiti On Home To Send Message
Shoshana and Ari Simone had just returned from a Fourth of July weekend trip to Atlanta when they noticed papers taped to their mailbox. The papers, it turned out, were put up by a neighbor to cover up a swastika and the word “Jew,” spray-painted on to the Simones’ mailbox while they were away. “To…
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Fast Forward Swastikas And ‘White Power’ Graffiti Discovered At Phoenix High School
(JTA) — Graffiti including swastikas and the words “white power” were discovered on the auditorium of a Phoenix high school. The vandalism on the outside walls of the auditorium at Pinnacle High is being investigated by the police bias crime unit, the Arizona Jewish News reported. “No place for hate in Phoenix,” the city’s mayor, Greg Stanton,…
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Breaking News Anti-Islam Demonstrators Rally Outside Phoenix Mosque
More than 200 protesters, some armed, berated Islam and its Prophet Mohammed outside an Arizona mosque on Friday in a provocative protest that was denounced by counterprotesters shouting “Go home, Nazis,” weeks after an anti-Muslim event in Texas came under attack by two gunmen. The anti-Muslim event outside the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix was…
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