In March, I was driving along a road that led from Dayton, Ohio, into its formerly middle-class, now decidedly working-class southwestern suburbs, when I came upon an arresting sight. I was looking for a professional sign-maker who had turned his West Carrollton ranch house into a distribution point for Trump yard signs, in high demand […]
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USAHillary Clinton was the choice of nearly every American newspaper editorial board. It didn’t matter. When it comes to influencing public opinion, the 2016 presidential election demonstrated with sobering effect the weakening role of traditional media and the ascendant power of social networks like Facebook. Forty-four percent of Americans get their news from Facebook, according
During his unorthodox Republican presidential campaign, Donald Trump at times touted his support for longtime progressive causes, promising to reform trade deals, invest in infrastructure, reinstate a key Depression-era financial regulation and combat political corruption. Now, some of Trump’s harshest progressive critics are offering their support for the president-elect on the issues on which they
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USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Like others who voted for Hillary Clinton, I was shocked and saddened by the election results. It took me a while to get my head around the idea that Donald Trump will be our next President. After a while, I had an opportunity to reflect. How could it
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Rabbi Michael Berk Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — As I write these words the presidential campaign, mercifully, is winding down. The ugliest, most unseemly, undignified, and dispiriting campaign in my lifetime is finally laid to rest. David Horovitz, editor of Times of Israel, says we have watched “…a great democracy being battered
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Jewish Religion, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — After everything that has been said and done, this election will probably be remembered as one of the most acrimonious elections, full of mudslinging, accusations of improprieties, and personal attacks that our country has ever seen. The brilliant French political thinker, Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) wrote
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USARabbi Shlomo Riskin, the chief rabbi of Efrat and head of and head of the Ohr Torah Stone institutions, said in an interview with Channel 7 that he believes Trump’s victory is auspicious both for the world and for the State of Israel. “This is a victory for the “common American,”” he said. “The US
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USAMatt Brooks says anti-hate organization ‘put their thumb on the scale’ in criticizing anti-Semitism related to Trump campaign By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, speaking at the ADL Annual Meeting in Los Angeles on November 6, 2014. (Courtesy ADL) WASHINGTON — Republican Jewish Coalition Executive Director Matt
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USAAt a summit held in October at the National Museum of American Jewish History, several hundred communal professionals, rabbis, scholars, philanthropists, and young intermarried couples discussed engagement of interfaith families in Jewish life. There is widespread communal agreement that intermarriage has reshaped the landscape of American-Jewish life, but a lack of consensus regarding how best
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Jewish Religion, USAJeffrey R. Sprague, Professor of Special Education, University of Oregon Donald Trump has won the presidency, but not before launching one of the most ugly and fractious campaigns in American history. As the 2016 election season now comes to a close, there are signs that it has left scars behind, particularly in the schools of
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USABritish Prime Minister Theresa May spoke to President-elect Donald Trump early Thursday to congratulate him on his “hard-fought election campaign and victory.” Mr. Trump, in turn, said the United Kingdom is “a very, very special place for me and our country” and invited Ms. May to visit him as soon as possible after he takes
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International, USAWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama met for more than 90 minutes with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday, an unexpectedly lengthy encounter that ended with both men offering uncharacteristic praise for each other. Obama, calling their discussion an “excellent conversation,” said he was “encouraged” by Trump’s interest in working with his administration
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USACongratulations, President-elect Donald Trump: You have won a resounding victory. But before you buy into the upcoming avalanche of media speculation that your victory will change the world, here are a few facts to keep you from becoming a megalomaniac despot. Fact No. 1: You won with the help of FBI director James Comey and
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USAU.S. President-elect Donald Trump could try to complete the postponed transfer of the wartime operational control of South Korean forces from Washington to Seoul in an effort to reduce American security burdens, a top expert on Korea said Wednesday. South Korea handed over control of its forces to the U.S. during the 1950-53 Korean War
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