By MARCY OSTER
(JTA) — The editor of a quarterly journal published by the historical commission of Dearborn, Michigan will not work on any more of the magazines after he published an article about Henry Ford’s history of anti-Semitism in the publication’s 100th anniversary issue.
Dearborn Mayor John B. O’Reilly prevented...
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(JTA) — Jussie Smollett told an audience in southern California that he is “going to stand strong with y’all” in the wake of an assault that is being characterized as a hate crime.
Smollet, who is black, gay and Jewish, took the stage Saturday night at the Troubadour in West...
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By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Five Jewish things about U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, who just announced for the Democratic presidential nomination, you ask?
Here’s a start:
The New Jersey politician literally carried a rabbi on his back until he (figuratively) cast same rabbi into the waters, like a forgotten sin.
...(JTA) — Anti-Israel protesters took the state unannounced at Creating Change, an LGBTQ conference that was the site of a raucous anti-Israel protest in 2016.
At the opening of this year’s conference, organized by the National LGBTQ Task Force, a group of activists holding Palestinian flags took the stage and...
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By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Prominent Democrats are launching a pro-Israel group to counter a drift away from Israel on the party’s left.
The Democratic Majority for Israel, according to a story appearing Monday evening on The New York Times website, will be led by Mark Mellman, a longtime...
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By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In her first appearance on national TV as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, California Sen. Kamala Harris lashed out at President Donald Trump for “fueling division,” including on race.
“Racism is real in America, sexism, anti-Semitism, transphobia, homophobia — these things are...
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By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bernie Sanders has dropped hints that he’s ready to run again for president, and the one thing we know for sure is that Bernie, the sequel, will not be a retread.
Much about Bernie 1.0 was attention-getting precisely because of the way his campaign...
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By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The top two Jewish members of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee revile BDS, the boycott Israel movement.
Its newest member, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-MI., has embraced the movement. It’s not a big deal, the Jewish Democrats say.
Reps. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y.,...
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By MARCY OSTER
(JTA) — Linda Sarsour defended the legality of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel during her speech on stage in Washington D.C. at the third Women’s March. Her critique of anti-BDS laws came hours after rejecting the anti-Semitic statements of Louis Farrakhan.
Sarsour, a leader...
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(JTA) — A Jewish woman walking in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn was punched by a black male who then ran off.
It is the second such attack on the same street in less than 48 hours.
The woman was walking on Friday afternoon on Kingston Avenue, a main...
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