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U.S. Synagogues Invite Grieving Jews to Sit Shiva Together After Trump Victory
Haaretz ^ | Nov 10, 2016 8:27 PM | Debra Nussbaum Cohen

Posted on 11/11/2016 12:05:17 PM PST by Olog-hai

There were tears at preschool drop off hours after Donald Trump was declared president-elect, but at Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn they weren’t from the 3-year-olds. It was parents who cried, many of them overcome by grief and fear after Hillary Clinton’s stunning loss to a man who throughout his campaign crudely expressed explicitly anti-Semitic, racist and sexist views.

“People were openly weeping,” said Douglas Schneider, an attorney and local political activist who was one of those who cried at the synagogue preschool while dropping off his young son. “This is a real gut punch. Not just because Donald Trump will be president. It’s also about what this says about who the United States is today.” …

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TOPICS: Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: jewishvote; liberaljews; trump
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To: ncfool

I think that happens after the nosh... ;)


61 posted on 11/11/2016 4:35:30 PM PST by W. (Time for Black Velvets--half Guinness Extra Stout, half champagne! Also, victory steak! Brap!)
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To: Olog-hai

When in the world did Donald Trump express “anti-Semitc views”? These people are cray-cray.


62 posted on 11/11/2016 6:29:55 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
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