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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 465

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln. (Anthony Berger, Wikimedia Commons)
September 13, 2020, 7:27 pm
Lock of Abraham Lincoln’s hair fetches over $80,000
Tuft sold at Boston auction house along with blood-stained telegram about the US president’s 1965 assassination
By AP
Author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza the keynote speaker at the Republican Sunshine Summit addresses the audience, June 29, 2018, in Kissimmee, Florida (AP Photo/John Raoux)
July 1, 2018, 12:30 pm
Trump associate under fire for retweeting #burnthejews hashtag
US president has called Dinesh D’Souza a ‘great voice for freedom’
By ToI Staff
Joanne Palmer
February 19, 2018, 2:15 pm
Joanne Palmer
Thinking about Lincoln, Gettysburg, and Elijah
In ‘Four score and seven years ago…’ the echoes of prophecy are unmistakable to Jewish ears
US President Donald Trump speaks during a joint press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, February 13, 2017. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)
February 13, 2017, 11:09 pm
Trump posts ‘fake’ Abraham Lincoln quote
Quotation mistakenly believed to be from 16th US president originally seen on RNC Twitter account, although group later deleted it
By AP and ToI Staff
Barbara Diamond
January 20, 2017, 2:54 pm
Barbara Diamond
Washington comes alive for Donald Trump
Nostalgia for a time when DC fixtures inspired awe instead of scrutiny, including the presidents with their daunting tasks
A member of the Ku Klux Klan who says his name is Gary Munker poses for a photo during an interview with AFP in Hampton Bays, New York on November 22, 2016. (AFP/William Edwards)
December 2, 2016, 5:46 pm
Ku Klux Klan embraces Trump, but resurgence seems unlikely
While spokesman insists people are ‘waking up’ to threat to whites, data shows support for the group is negligible
By Catherine TRIOMPHE
Leon Wieseltier, Jonathan Sarna and Ruth Calderon in conversation on Wednesday night, November 30, 2016, about Sarna's latest book, 'Lincoln and the Jews,' written with Benjamin Shapell (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
December 2, 2016, 10:40 am
Removing the second ‘L’ from Lincoln
A new book prompts discussion by Jonathan Sarna, Leon Wieseltier and Ruth Calderon on the American president’s legacy and history with the Jews
By Jessica Steinberg
The “Gettysburg Redress” clip, created by White Animation, tries to use Abraham Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address to motivate Americans to vote. (Screen capture: YouTube)
November 3, 2016, 9:00 pm
Israeli animation firm wants US citizens to vote
Tel Aviv-based studio specializing in whiteboard animation creates ‘Gettysburg Redress’ clip to motivate voters
By JTA
Then-Republican presidential candidates Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, left, and Donald Trump argue during a Republican presidential primary debate in Detroit, Michigan, March 3, 2016. (AP/Carlos Osorio)
March 17, 2016, 1:20 am
White House candidates talk like school kids
Republican front-runner Donald Trump ranked as worst offender in study, using grammar and vocabulary worse than a typical sixth grader
By AFP
At a Brandeis event on April 28, 2015, visitors view Solomon Nunes de Carvalho’s 1865 portrait of Abraham Lincoln. (JTA/Ashley McCabe/Brandeis University)
May 1, 2015, 8:33 am
Artist’s rare Lincoln portrait spotlighted
Work by Solomon Nunes Carvalho is the only known painting of the president by a Jewish contemporary
By Penny Schwartz
Detail from 'Lincoln,' painting by George Peter Alexander Healy in 1869 (public domain via wikipedia)
March 27, 2015, 11:58 am
Jews counted among Lincoln’s closest confidants
The scholars behind book/exhibit ‘Lincoln and the Jews: A History’ illustrate how firmly Jews are part and parcel of US history
By Beth Kissileff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas after delivering a speech at Cooper Union in New York, September 22, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Jason DeCrow)
September 23, 2014, 2:09 pm
In NY, Abbas equates statehood to US civil rights struggle
At an address to students ahead of this week’s UN GA, PA president links Lincoln’s call to end slavery with Palestinian independence
By Cathryn J. Prince
Bar Refaeli (photo credit: CC BY-SA Laurent Jean Philippe, Flickr)
July 17, 2014, 12:23 pm
Bar Refaeli boldly quotes the wrong guy
In comment on Gaza conflict, Israeli model invokes a Star Trek character
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A dreidel balloon is paraded down Central Park South as part of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, November 28, 2013. (AP/Tina Fineberg)
November 28, 2013, 11:49 pm
In Manhattan, ‘Thanksgivukkah’ is as American as apple pie
At Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, New Yorkers revel in a Jewish holiday — and ‘the most Jewish of American holidays’
By Elhanan Miller
Rabbi Sharon Brous of the IKAR congregation in Los Angeles. (Donovan Marks/Washington National Cathedral via JTA)
January 29, 2013, 7:00 pm
Rabbis tweaked inaugural readings to make them ‘Jewier’
White House was okay with last-minute changes added by Jewish clergy at service after Obama’s swearing-in
By Ron Kampeas
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