NOVOGRUDOK, Belarus — People in Jared Kushner’s ancestral town tend to speak very highly of President Donald Trump.
In Novogrudok — a picturesque city of 30,000 in western …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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6/8/17
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When Jewish Republicans met online to talk about the best way to defeat Joe Biden, the conversation kept sliding back to a question that has beset them since 2016: How do you …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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7/29/20
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Aaron Keyak started out in Democratic Party politics as a kid, stuffing envelopes for campaigns in his native San Francisco. He clearly found his niche early …
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By Dan Pine, J. Jewish News of Northern California
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7/29/20
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Nikki Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations, said the U.S. is considering its membership in the U.N. Human Rights Council, citing among other things its bias …
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By JTA
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6/8/17
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While President Trump appeared to dominate the U.S.-Israel relationship in 2017, some major stories in this arena had little or nothing to do with the president. Here’s a …
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By Sean Savage, JNS
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1/3/18
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Tony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for secretary of state, is the stepson of a Shoah survivor whose stories shaped his worldview and subsequently his policy decisions, including …
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Backgrounder by Gabe Friedman, JTA
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11/25/20
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Lou Kornreich’s Shabbat table is a microcosm of the Maine Jewish community. And he doesn’t like it.
“When I have a discussion at the Shabbos table, there are those on the left …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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8/6/20
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Presidential candidates since Bill Clinton have promised to move the United States embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. While none has kept the promise in office, all indications are that when he enters …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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1/11/17
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At 15, Elias Rosenfeld became a “Dreamer.”
At the time, the Venezuela native was attending Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School in Miami, where he had lived since he …
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By Penny Schwartz, JTA
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9/13/17
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Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone, a longtime official in U.S. Orthodox Jewish organizations, will advise David Friedman, the just installed U.S. ambassador to Israel, the Jerusalem Post reported on …
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4/7/17
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