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2 weeks ago | 
timesofisrael.com | Grace Gilson |Asaf Elia-Shalev |Lauren Markoe |Philissa Cramer
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
timesofisrael.com | Lauren Markoe
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
timesofisrael.com | Lauren Markoe
(JTA) WASHINGTON — In her last week in office, Deborah Lipstadt, whom US President Joe Biden charged with fighting antisemitism around the world, expressed doubt as to whether the incoming Trump administration will be up to the challenge. “I certainly hope so — I don’t know,” said Lipstadt, during her final roundtable with the Jewish press at the State Department after 15 months of spiking bigotry against Jews globally.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
jpost.com | Lauren Markoe
She “brought expertise, gravitas, and determination” to the role “during one of the most challenging periods for the Jewish people in decades,” said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
jewishaz.com | Lauren Markoe
(JTA) — Announcing his deputy envoy for Middle East peace, President-elect Donald Trump made it clear that he chose Morgan Ortagus reluctantly. Trump said he picked Ortagus, a spokesperson at the State Department when it was led by Mike Pompeo — who in 2024 considered running against him — because others lobbied hard for her. “These things usually don’t work out,” the Friday statement from Trump read, “but she has strong Republican support, and I’m not doing this for me, I’m doing it for them.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
jta.org | Lauren Markoe
Announcing his deputy envoy for Middle East peace, President-elect Donald Trump made it clear that he chose Morgan Ortagus reluctantly. Trump said he picked Ortagus, a spokesperson at the State Department when it was led by Mike Pompeo — who in 2024 considered running against him — because others lobbied hard for her. “These things usually don’t work out,” the Friday statement from Trump read, “but she has strong Republican support, and I’m not doing this for me, I’m doing it for them.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
forward.com | Lauren Markoe
Pam Bondi, president-elect Donald Trump's new nominee to lead the Justice Department, has touted her pro-Israel credentials and called out antisemitism on the left. She has said less, at least in public, about threats to Jews from the right. Bondi is from Florida, the state with the third-largest Jewish population, and is expected to face few obstacles to confirmation.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Lauren Markoe
12 hours agoWith the possibility of a porn ban looming, tensions between conservative and liberal performers are bubbling over. On Tuesday, November 5, Donald Trump secured a second term as President of the United States. While Trump won the Electoral College comfortably, the popular vote was much closer, with …
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
forward.com | Lauren Markoe
Among the prominent and early promoters of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Trump administration's Department of Health and Human Services was a celebrity physician who once touted his book as "the Jewish doctor's guide to Christian weight loss."Dr. Mark Hyman, author of The 10-Day Detox Diet, is a family physician who talks about " food as medicine" and has leaned into his Jewishness on social media to promote some of his 15 books, blogs and podcasts.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
religionunplugged.com | Lauren Markoe
In the days since Donald Trump’s reelection, Jews and others who value a strict separation between church and state in the nation’s public schools have been alarmed by some of the names floated to run the Department of Education — and by the president-elect’s talk of eliminating it.
