Will Trump do the ‘right thing’ in dealing with Palestinians and antisemitism? Liberal respondents have little to no confidence across the board that Trump will “do the right thing” in any area of questioning. 01/8/2025 - 2:34 am | View Link
Watchdog group calls on Florida to halt dealings with anti-Israel man’s Miami booze business Loira Rez, the founder and Executive Director of StopAntisemitism, said the Florida state government “must halt all dealings with IDS and Patrick Doyle, an antisemite who spews blood libels, Jewish ... 01/7/2025 - 10:20 am | View Link
Dept. of Education opens Title VI antisemitism investigation at Sarah Lawrence College, where Hillel alleged atmosphere of intimidation The federal Department of Education is opening a Title VI antisemitism investigation into Sarah Lawrence College in response to a complaint from the campus Hillel chapter that the school fostered a ... 01/7/2025 - 9:44 am | View Link
What the election of Pierre Poilievre would mean for Canadian Jews and Israel The Conservative politician poised to replace Justin Trudeau as prime minister of Canada took a hitchhiking trip through Israel in his youth, has referred to Canadian Jews as “the true Indigenous ... 01/7/2025 - 8:01 am | View Link
‘The View’ co-host Sunny Hostin slammed for likening Jan. 6 riot to the Holocaust and slavery: ‘Extraordinarily unhinged’ Hostin, 56, lamented that in her view some people have grown less outraged over the incident as time has gone on. 01/6/2025 - 9:05 am | View Link
American Jews American Jews or Jewish Americans are American citizens who are Jewish, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion. [4] According to a 2020 poll conducted by Pew Research, approximately two thirds of American Jews identify as Ashkenazi, 3% identify as Sephardic, and 1% identify as Mizrahi. An additional 6% identify as some combination of the ... 12/26/2024 - 10:39 pm | View Link
The American Jewish Community Will Look Different in 50 Years Today, the majority of American Jews are in the Reform and Conservative denominations. A new study by Yale SOM’s Edieal Pinker finds that in the coming decades, those groups will shrink and the number of Jews identifying as Orthodox will grow—a trend with implications for Jewish organizations and U.S. politics. 12/26/2024 - 7:02 am | View Link
The size of the U.S. Jewish population | Pew Research Center The “net” Jewish adult population seems to be keeping pace with the steadily growing U.S. population, rising from an estimated 5.3 million at the time of the 2013 Pew Research Center survey of Jewish Americans (2.2% of U.S. adults) to 5.8 million in 2020 (2.4%). The share of U.S. adults identifying as Jews by religion has been fairly stable ... 12/26/2024 - 1:04 am | View Link
History of the Jews in the United States Historians believe American Jewish history has been characterized by an unparalleled degree of freedom, acceptance, and prosperity that has made it possible for Jews to bring together their ethnic identities with the demands of national citizenship far more effortlessly than Jews in Europe. [123] 12/25/2024 - 6:16 pm | View Link
Decline of golden age for American Jews — Harvard Gazette The golden age for American Jews is in decline. At least, for now. That was the provocative proposition put forth in journalist Franklin Foer’s cover story for the April issue of The Atlantic . 12/25/2024 - 3:03 pm | View Link
Special counsel Jack Smith's final report into the criminal cases against almost-president Yambo has been blocked from release after the yam's lawyers launched a last-ditch effort to prevent its publication. But they already know what's in it, and they're desperate to keep it from the public. Via The Daily Beast:
In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland sent Monday, Trump’s lawyers said they were allowed to review Smith’s report in the criminal case in which Trump was charged with conspiring to keep classified documents after he left office.
They threatened legal action if it is released, noting Smith’s findings include strongly worded allegations that Trump “engaged in an unprecedented criminal effort” and describe him as “the head of the criminal conspiracies.”
Trump’s lawyers argued Smith’s report amounts to little more than a “politically-motivated attack” and that making public his findings in the classified documents case or an election interference case Smith also pursue would illegally interfere with Trump’s presidential transition.
Is that even a thing?
Yambo opened a bizarre news conference yesterday by introducing Hussain Sajwani, the founder and chairman of DAMAC Properties, a Dubai-based real estate firm that partnered with the Trump family a decade ago to build the first Trump-branded golf course in the Middle East. Via the New York Times:
Now, Mr. Trump said, DAMAC is planning to invest billions of dollars in the United States to build data centers, with the help of Mr.
Tommy Tuberville retains his title as one of the dumbest members of the United States Senate. Here's Tuberville on Fox Business Network this Tuesday trying to justify Trump's nonsense about the Panama Canal, and lying that Panama's President José Raúl Mulino is all-in with Trump (He's not.)
TUBERVILLE: I can remember my dad was very upset.
Above, John Mellencamp performs, Small Town. It's all performative with Republicans. Those heartland values they profess? Yeah, lies.
Stop The Presses asks us to beware of Republican bearing false witness.
Left Jabs goes to the Ur-text of Republicans bearing false witness.
Adventus has a lot of problems with you people.
Cassandra's Grandson reports on the end of the Old World Order.
Bonus Track: Colossal goes to the heart of the heartland.
Round-up by Tengrain who blogs at Mock, Paper, Scissors.
MAGA racists are nothing if not consistent. Senator Deb Fischer's been a banal right-wing Republican since arriving in the U. S. Senate. If it makes sense, helps regular ppl & scientists are for it, *she's against it.*
But Fischer was low profile until her cretinous caricature of a husband marched into the Capitol with his enormous pupils and Mitch McConnell energy for her swearing-in ceremony January 3rd.
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