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The call to take place Friday morning comes three weeks after three non-Orthodox movements — Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist — declined to help organize an annual rabbis call that Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, had instituted.
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President Donald Trump speaking with members of Congress in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Sept. 5, 2017. (Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images)
77 percent said they viewed Trump’s job performance unfavorably and 21 percent said they viewed him favorably. Those are considerably worse numbers for the president than in the general population at around the same time, mid- to late August.
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Immigrants and DACA supporters rally across the street from the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Las Vegas on Sept. 10, 2017. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
While support for the Dreamers has been fairly bipartisan, and Jewish organizational consensus is for a solution that lets them stay in the country, some Jews have major qualms about the program — especially with the way it was created by executive order under Obama.
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“Dreamers” originally from Ecuador watching Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ remarks on ending the DACA program on a smartphone in Manhattan, Sept. 5, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
The Trump administration said it would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program launched by President Barack Obama in 2011 after multiple attempts failed in Congress to pass an immigration bill that would settle the status of 11 million undocumented immigrants.
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Hannah Risheq, center, campaigning in northern Virginia in June 2017 for a seat on the Virginia House of Delegates. (Courtesy of Risheq)
When you ask these Jewish women what propelled them to the churning uncertainty of seeking election, many of them circle back to two things: family and Donald Trump.
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Gary Wasserman, left, strolls through a corridor on the Georgetown campus in Qatar with his students in 2012. (Georgetown University-Qatar)
Near the end of his first year teaching American studies at the Georgetown University campus in Qatar, Gary Wasserman introduced a dozen Israelis to a dozen undergraduates from across the Middle East.
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Sen. John McCain leaving a meeting of GOP senators in the U.S. Capitol, June 22, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Here are four times Sen. John McCain has joined with Jews in bucking expectations.
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Alan Gross with some of his favorite things — a pastrami sandwich and a Cuban cigar — at Loeb’s Deli in Washington, D.C., July 12, 2017. (Ron Kampeas)
When he was arrested in 2009, Gross was working as a subcontractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development setting up internet access for Cuban Jews.
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FBI Director James Comey prepares to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 3, 2017. (Photo by Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
Comey may be gone, but the shock among Democrats – and some congressional Republicans — at his departure means his memory is unlikely to fade anytime soon.
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