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 The Pittsburgh synagogue shooter got the death penalty. Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor is mum on the sentence.
Gov. Josh Shapiro said earlier this year he no longer supports capital punishment even for those committing the most heinous crimes
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News Jamaal Bowman’s primary challenger calls the incumbent ‘viscerally anti-Israel’
Michael Gerald, a Baptist pastor, is the first candidate to launch a bid against Bowman but other challengers may emerge
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Fast Forward Trump campaign likens latest indictment to Nazism
The statement came in reaction to a set of federal charges over Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election
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News She’s low in the polls, but for some Jewish Republicans, Nikki Haley is the best Trump alternative
'I hope that everyone will remember what a good friend I was to Israel,' Haley said
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Fast Forward Elon Musk reinstated Kanye West’s Twitter account. Jewish groups were not happy.
The ADL noted that West has refused to make amends for promoting antisemitic content and denying the Holocaust
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Fast Forward Joel Rubin, who worked in Jewish outreach for Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, launches bid for U.S. House seat
The former Obama official and J Street director will run in a crowded primary for Maryland’s 6th District
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Fast Forward ‘I didn’t say those things’: RFK Jr. denounces those who accuse him of promoting antisemitic COVID-19 conspiracy theory
Kennedy has been condemned by major Jewish groups for saying the coronavirus was 'ethnically targeted' to spare Ashkenazi Jews
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders boycotted President Herzog’s speech to protest Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians
Sanders joined five members of the 'Squad' who skipped the speech to mark the 75th anniversary of the U.S.-Israel alliance
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