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Who cut the Crown Heights eruv?

Orthodox Jewish residents of the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn were shocked to discover in recent days that a newly established eruv had been destroyed. The eruv itself had elicited a greal of controversy, dividing the neighborhoods Chabad population with the growing modern Orthodox community. In late June, local Chabad rabbis issued an edict declaring

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Jewish Religion, USA

Bernie Holds Onto His Email List

Bernie Sanders may have endorsed rival Hillary Clinton for president, but he’s not ready to give up quite yet. Looking for proof? Sanders, the Vermont senator who proved particularly popular among young voters in the Democratic primary, has not given Clinton’s campaign his highly desirable email list, an NBC producer tweeted Wednesday afternoon. Sanders raised

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USA

Ginsburg apologizes for Trump comments

WASHINGTON, D.C. (JNS.org)–U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is Jewish, issued an apology for remarks she made earlier this week that were critical of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Ginsburg, 83, spoke of her recent remark that Trump is a “faker,” and that she doesn’t even want to “contemplate” a Trump administration. She

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USA

Obama, Kerry say world safer 1 year after Iran N-deal

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry each issued statements Thursday on the one-year anniversary of the nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 power. The President issued the following statement from the White House: “Today marks one year since the conclusion of the Iran nuclear deal—known as the Joint Comprehensive

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International, Middle East, USA

Top religious court rules against US Rabbi Lookstein conversion

Israel’s Supreme Rabbinical Court ruled on Wednesday that the conversions performed on his own by Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, a prominent modern Orthodox rabbi from Manhattan, will not be recognized. The ruling by the country’s highest officially recognized religious court upheld a decision made last week by the Petah Tikva District Rabbinical Court, which held that

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Middle East, USA

Trump: GOP platform ‘the most pro-Israel of all time’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday took to Twitter to hail the new pro-Israel Republican party platform. “The Republican platform is most pro-Israel of all time!” he tweeted, in a post that received more than 6,000 likes. The new platform, the language of which was approved by the Republican Party’s Platform Committee on Tuesday,

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Middle East, USA

Stephen Colbert rips Hillary Clinton as dishonest: ‘F*** it, I gotta take the gloves off’

Late-night host Stephen Colbert “took the gloves off” and went into a nearly three-minute long skit this week on Hillary Clinton’s integrity. “F*** it, I gotta take the gloves off,” the comedian told his audience Monday night. “The Late Show” host then began a series of pop-culture analogies to demonstrate the former secretary of state’s

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Donald Trump polling stronger with evangelicals than Mitt Romney four years ago

Donald Trump does not speak often about his Christian faith, but it’s not a problem for many evangelical voters. A new poll released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center shows that 78 percent of white evangelical voters would vote for Trump if the election were held today. That’s higher than the 73 percent of evangelicals

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USA

Hillary Clinton calls on Americans to reject ‘divisive’ Trump candidacy

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton charged Tuesday that the Republican Party, once headed by a president who held the union together, is now led by a man who intentionally stokes divisions for personal gain, as she blasted Donald Trump for “pitting American against American” when the nation needs “a president who can help pull us together,

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