Jacob Kornbluh is the Forward’s senior political reporter. Follow him on Twitter @jacobkornbluh or email [email protected].
Jacob KornbluhSenior Political Reporter
By Jacob Kornbluh
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Fast Forward Marjorie Taylor Greene tours Orthodox spots in Brooklyn
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was stripped of her House committee assignments last month for antisemitic and other incendiary comments, toured Orthodox areas of Brooklyn and Long Island on Monday, according to a community leader who hosted her. Nachman Mostofsky, executive director of Chovevei Zion, an Orthodox conservative group based in Brooklyn, told the Forward…
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News SCOOP: NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Yang to be endorsed by Queens Jewish lawmaker
Andrew Yang, one of the leading candidates for mayor of New York City, is expected to get a boost in his effort to lock in the Jewish voting blocs with the endorsement of one of the youngest and most influential Jewish politicians in New York. Assemblyman Daniel Rosenthal told the Forward that he will endorse…
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News How ranked-choice voting might affect the historic influence of NYC’s Orthodox voting bloc
Andrew Yang promised he would not take action on secular education in yeshivas. Eric Adams visited a Brooklyn yeshiva to learn about how it teaches science, math and English. Ray McGuire hosted a roundtable with rabbis in which he boasted about his comfort level praying at the Western Wall. These are just a few examples…
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News Most Jewish groups mum amid growing pressure on Cuomo to resign
As calls mount for embattled Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York to step down amid allegations of sexual misconduct, Jewish groups are seeming reluctant to express an opinion. In particular, Orthodox groups, who have expressed their fair share of criticism of Cuomo in recent months, have remained on the sidelines. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and…
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News ‘Not every disagreement should lead to a crisis’: Israel’s new ambassador on repairing relations with Democrats
When Gilad Erdan was growing up in the port city of Ashkelon, his mother predicted that one day he would become Israel’s state comptroller because he was always giving orders on what needed to be fixed at school. He got an early start in politics and by 26 became an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin…
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Fast Forward Marjorie Taylor Greene says she didn’t invent Jewish space lasers
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed in a TV interview on Tuesday that she didn’t come up with the term “Jewish space lasers” that triggered backlash from the Jewish community. She blamed the whole hoopla on an activist, leftist journalist. In a recently uncovered Facebook post published by Media Matters, Greene alleged that space lasers were…
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News New book details Jared Kushner’s lead role in U.S.-China relations
In a new book, titled “Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century,” out on Tuesday, Josh Rogin, a Washington Post foreign policy columnist, provides an inside look Jared Kushner’s outsize role on the mismanaged trade talks with China. Kushner was directly involved in negotiations with China, Rogin writes, because he…
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Fast Forward After visiting yeshiva, Eric Adams “impressed” by secular education
Eric Adams, one of the leading candidates running to be mayor of New York City toured a Brooklyn yeshiva on Monday that had been on a list of schools subject to investigation over adequate secular education standards and came away with a positive impression. ”I was really impressed by what I saw,” Adams told the…
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