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As Schumer presses ahead with Antisemitism Awareness Act, concerns about free speech resurface
WASHINGTON — One of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s last actions as the outgoing Senate majority leader is an attempt to codify a controversial definition of antisemitism in the face of claims from the left and the right that it… Continue Reading
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Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a Jewish Democrat, launches bid for New Jersey governor
Josh Gottheimer has a dream: to be the country’s fourth Jewish Democratic governor named Josh. Gottheimer, a New Jersey congressman, announced Friday morning that he is running to succeed Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat who is… Continue Reading
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Trump taps RFK Jr., whose anti-vaccine activism has included antisemitic comments, to lead Dept. of Health and Human Services
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and onetime presidential candidate who has compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust and mused that the COVID-19 pandemic was engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews, is… Continue Reading
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Pete Hegseth, Trump’s defense secretary nominee, has multiple Christian and Crusades-inspired tattoos
Pete Hegseth wears his Christian pride on his sleeve — literally, and sometimes in Hebrew. The Minnesota National Guard veteran, Fox News personality and now nominee for U.S. secretary of defense has a slew of religiously… Continue Reading
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Trump named Mike Huckabee ambassador to Israel. Is that a sign of the second coming of annexation?
WASHINGTON — When Donald Trump appointed David Friedman as his ambassador to Israel eight years ago, American Jews sensed — correctly — that it would presage big changes in the U.S.-Israel relationship. Unlike any of his… Continue Reading
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Close to 90 congressional Democrats urge Biden to sanction Israeli ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir
WASHINGTON — Close to 90 Democrats in Congress, including eight Jewish officials, are calling on President Joe Biden to use his lame-duck period to sanction two far-right Israeli ministers. Both ministers have pushed for… Continue Reading
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Trump picks Matt Gaetz, who called ADL ‘racist’ and invited Holocaust denier to SOTU, for attorney general
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Matt Gaetz as his nominee for attorney general, putting forward a firebrand who has tussled with Jewish groups, embraced an antisemitic conspiracy theory and associated with a Holocaust… Continue Reading
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‘Wanted’ posters at U of Rochester target Hillel director, Netanyahu’s brother and others with ‘ties’ to Israel
When the director of the local Jewish federation first saw the hundreds of red, white and black posters plastered around the University of Rochester’s campus last weekend, an eerie comparison came to her mind. They “looked a… Continue Reading
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CIA official charged with violating Espionage Act for leaking documents revealing Israel’s plans to attack Iran
A CIA official was charged with violating the Espionage Act after the FBI found him responsible for a recent leak of classified documents revealing Israeli plans to attack Iran. The man, Asif W. Rahman, was indicted last week in… Continue Reading
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Trump names fellow real estate mogul Steve Witkoff as Middle East envoy
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump named as his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, a realtor and golf buddy who was present at a recent foiled assassination of Trump. “Steve is a Highly Respected Leader in Business and… Continue Reading