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Batya Ungar-Sargon / The Forward:
Why No One Can Talk About The Attacks Against Orthodox Jews — There's a poem Jews sing every evening after lighting Hanukkah candles. It's called “Maoz Tzur” — Rock of the Ages — and was written during the Crusades, one of the many times when Jewish blood ran through the streets …
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New York Times:
Monsey Hanukkah Stabbing: 5 Wounded at Rabbi's Home in N.Y. Suburb — The governor called the violence an “act of domestic terrorism” after a suspect was arrested in Harlem. — MONSEY, N.Y. — An intruder with a large knife burst into the home of a Hasidic rabbi in a New York suburb on Saturday night …
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New York Post:
Suspects released without bail after shocking attacks on Jews — Suspects arrested in last week's spree of eight anti-Semitic attacks are being quickly released right back into the neighborhoods they terrorized thanks to “bail reform” legislation — which doesn't even take effect until Jan. 1.
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Deborah Lipstadt / The Atlantic:
Jews Are Going Underground — In a month of terrible anti-Semitic attacks, including a stabbing yesterday of multiple people at a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi's home in Monsey, New York, the news that most depressed me did not involve violence. It was not something done to Jews but something Jews did.
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CBS New York:
At Least 5 People Stabbed By Machete-Wielding Suspect At Monsey Synagogue, Suspect Arrested In NYC
At Least 5 People Stabbed By Machete-Wielding Suspect At Monsey Synagogue, Suspect Arrested In NYC
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Associated Press:
5 stabbed at Hanukkah celebration in rabbi's New York home
5 stabbed at Hanukkah celebration in rabbi's New York home
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Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
How liberals are allowing anti-Semitism to flourish
How liberals are allowing anti-Semitism to flourish
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The Guardian and Slate
Erielle Davidson / The Federalist:
IDENTITY POLITICS ENABLES ANTI-SEMITIC VIOLENCE. ENOUGH
Ariel Zilber / Daily Mail:
Police released this image taken from surveillance cameras showing a man investigators believe …
Police released this image taken from surveillance cameras showing a man investigators believe …
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Yonah Jeremy Bob / Jerusalem Post:
Will American Jews finally get hint about dangers they face? - analysis
WPIX:
There were alleged attacks on Jewish New Yorkers almost every day last week
There were alleged attacks on Jewish New Yorkers almost every day last week
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NBC New York:
5 People Stabbed at Rabbi's Home in Rockland County, NY: Police
5 People Stabbed at Rabbi's Home in Rockland County, NY: Police
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Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman / Jerusalem Post:
Multiple victims reported in latest New York stabbing attack - breaking
Multiple victims reported in latest New York stabbing attack - breaking
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Dallas Morning News:
2 dead, 1 in critical condition after shooting at White Settlement church, officials say — Officials said the shooter is among the two people dead after a shooting at the West Freeway Church of Christ. … Two people are dead and another is in critical condition after a shooting at a church …
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CBS Dallas / Fort Worth:
2 Dead, 1 Critically Injured After Shooting At West Freeway Church Of Christ In White Settlement — WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) — Two people are dead and another person is critically injured after a shooting at a church in the Tarrant County city of White Settlement, officials said.
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
GOP Senator James Lankford says he doesn't think Trump is a role model for young people — Washington — Republican Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma criticized President Trump for his tweets and language, saying he doesn't believe the president is someone who young people can look up to.
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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
GOP senator says he doesn't think Trump “as a person” is a role model for kids
GOP senator says he doesn't think Trump “as a person” is a role model for kids
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The Daily Beast:
Graham: Rudy Should Scrub Evidence for Russian Propaganda — In the weeks leading up to their impeachment trial, senators on Capitol Hill are actively avoiding meeting with President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani—partly because they fear he might try to pass off Russian conspiracy theories …
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Adia Robinson / ABC News:
‘No exoneration’ if impeachment trial ‘rigged’ by McConnell, senator says — Pelosi and McConnell have been at an impasse over the Senate impeachment trial. — Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski put her finger on a key issue of an impeachment trial when she expressed concern …
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Helen Whitehouse / Mirror.co.uk:
Transgender man gives birth to non-binary partner's baby with female sperm donor — EXCLUSIVE: Proud dad Reuben Sharpe has revealed how he gave birth to miracle baby Jamie with partner Jay in Britain's most modern family - and even the couple's doctor was transgender
Michael Moran / Dailystar.co.uk:
Huge triangular UFO captured on video gliding through sky above New York — The strange object hung immobile above the clouds for several minutes, at one point ejecting a red ‘orb’ — 2019 has been a remarkable year for UFO sightings. — Partly because drones are so commonplace now …
Rick Wilson / New York Daily News:
A decade of loss: What slipped away in America in the 2010s — History's greatest trick is that our innate human bias toward normalcy always lures us into complacency. You wake up in the morning and the coffee still tastes largely the same, the water runs, the lights come on. It feels almost ordinary.
New York Times:
Behind the Ukraine Aid Freeze: 84 Days of Conflict and Confusion — The inside story of President Trump's demand to halt military assistance to an ally shows the price he was willing to pay to carry out his agenda. — WASHINGTON — Deep into a long flight to Japan aboard Air Force …
Washington Post:
Trump's lawyer and the Venezuelan president: How Giuliani got involved in back-channel talks with Maduro — The international call came in September 2018, after months of rising tension between the United States and Venezuela, a key strategic player in South America.
Lexington Herald-Leader:
Why do some people believe Trump's fairy tales? It feels good. — Make voting easier — President Ronald Reagan said that our nation “cannot allow any American's vote to be denied, diluted, or defiled. The right to vote is the crown jewel of American liberties, and we will not see its luster diminished.”
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Statement From Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Jonathan Hoffman — In response to repeated Kata'ib Hizbollah (KH) attacks on Iraqi bases that host Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) coalition forces, U.S. forces have conducted precision defensive strikes against five KH facilities in Iraq …
Justine Coleman / The Hill:
Putin thanks Trump for tip helping thwart ‘acts of terrorism’ in Russia — Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked President Trump in a phone call for giving him a tip that helped stop “acts of terrorism” in Russia, Reuters reported the Kremlin said. — The Kremlin added Trump …
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Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Searching for truth in an era of ‘alternative facts’: Disinformation in the age of Trump — On a special edition of “Meet the Press,” top journalists discuss the challenges of finding the facts amid growing disinformation. — WASHINGTON — In an era of politics and journalism that includes …
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Left presses 2020 Democrats to retake the courts from Trump — Democratic presidential contenders are facing increasing pressure to detail their plans for filling federal court vacancies amid angst over President Trump's success in packing the benches with conservative judges.
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
U.S. companies are forcing workers to train their own foreign replacements — Opponents of job outsourcing are making a holiday-season appeal to President Trump: Stop U.S. companies from forcing American workers to train the very same cheaper foreign laborers who will soon replace them.
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Dave Barry / Washington Post:
Dave Barry's Year in Review 2019 — Impeachment. Brexit. Greenland. Can we say anything good about this year? Nah. — It was an extremely eventful year. — We are using “eventful” in the sense of “bad.” — It was a year so eventful that every time another asteroid whizzed past the Earth …