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(JTA) — Rep. Ilhan Omar has deleted tweets that Jewish groups and her congressional colleagues called anti-Semitic. Omar, D-Minn., came under fire earlier this month for posting successive tweets suggesting that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobby, pays politicians to be pro-Israel. Democratic and Republican leaders condemned the tweets as echoing anti-Semitic […]

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Prepared testimony by Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former fixer, says the president is a con man and a racist, and again cites his father’s survival of the Holocaust to explain why he turned on his one-time mentor and employer. “My father survived the Holocaust thanks to the compassion and selfless acts of others,” […]