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Hearing on delivering racist rag: Yesterday in Toronto, a board of review hearing began to address a federal order prohibiting Canada Post from delivering the racist, pro-Nazi, Holocaust-denying publication Your Ward News.
Trump hates anti-Semitism (yesterday): President Trump said a bunch of things about being committed to confronting anti-Semitism and supporting Israel at yesterday’s annual Holocaust remembrance ceremony at the Capitol.
Highest educated are less observant: American Jews with the most education are also the least religious, finds a Pew Research Center study on religiosity and education in the United States.
Trump to visit Israel: President Trump says he’ll visit Israel at the end of May, on the heels of a meeting scheduled with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on May 3 in Washington.
Critics not sold on Sarsour: Some Jewish leaders are taking issue with a decision by City University of New York’s School of Public Health to have Muslim-American political activist Linda Sarsour deliver the commencement speech in June.
