A Republican Jewish Coalition board member has issued a statement supporting Stephen Bannon, who was appointed chief strategist for President-elect Donald Trump.
In his inspiring book \”Words That Hurt, Words that Heal,\” Rabbi Joseph Telushkin wrote: “Because words can be used to inflict devastating and irrevocable suffering, Jewish teachings go so far as to compare cruel words to murder.”
It seems counterintuitive, but a new study posits that education is to blame for the growing gap between the rich and poor in Israel. Researchers at the Shoresh Institute, an Israeli socioeconomic research center, have shown that improving the education system in the country by focusing on weaker students would increase Israel’s GDP by some 300%.
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President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday received the blessing of the Peres family, expressing hope that he will maintain strong U.S.-Israel relations.
Ivanka Trump, daughter of the president-elect and an adviser to him, tops the Forward 50, the Daily Forward’s annual list of 50 Jews who have impacted American life.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she was looking forward to Donald Trump’s naming of a ninth Supreme Court justice.
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