Jacob Kornbluh is the Forward’s senior political reporter. Follow him on Twitter @jacobkornbluh or email kornbluh@forward.com.
Jacob KornbluhSenior Political Reporter
By Jacob Kornbluh
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News This one-time refugee and former Israeli paratrooper just won a seat in her county legislature
Thirty years after she was airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel fleeing religious persecution, Mazi Melesa Pilip won public office on Long Island earlier this month. The Jewish Republican unseated another Jewish woman in heavily Democratic North Hempstead, New York. Pilip, 42, beat Ellen Birnbaum — a four-term Democratic legislator, to represent Nassau County’s 10th district…
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News The (more modest, less partisan) White House Hanukkah party is on!
It was touch and go for the White House Hanukkah party this year. For the longest time, no one knew whether it was happening at all. It came together at practically the last minute, just a few days before the holiday began. And it appears as if the guest list is far skimpier than in…
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Fast Forward VP Harris and husband Doug Emhoff will light a menorah at the vice president’s residence
Douglas Emhoff, the Jewish husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, marked the first night of Hanukkah at the annual lighting ceremony of the National Menorah on The Ellipse outside the White House on Sunday. Then he and Vice President Harris planned to light a hanukkiah in a window of their official residence. “The story of…
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Fast Forward More money needed for kosher and halal food, says Jewish anti-poverty agency
The nation’s largest Jewish anti-poverty charity is warning that more government funding is needed to provide meals to struggling New Yorkers who keep kosher or eat only halal foods. “The sad reality is that kosher and halal emergency food is underfunded in New York,” said David Greenfield, CEO of the Met Council. “Simply put that…
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News A quirky Israeli-born newcomer may win an even quirkier NY election
He made two unsuccessful bids for the Israeli Knesset, was twice a contestant on Israel’s Big Brother reality show, was arrested for failing to pay child support, invented an anti-vaccine mandate cryptocurrency and now awaits the results of an election too close to call for town supervisor of Canajoharie, New York. Benny Goldstein, 44, is…
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News The congressman went to Israel. His Socialist allies say he’s got some explaining to do.
Jamaal Bowman, a first-term congressman from New York, boasts nearly impeccable progressive credentials. He is closely aligned with “The Squad,” the five congresswomen known for their far-left views. He’s a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. And he ousted a centrist veteran last year — Eliot Engel, the former chair of the House Foreign…
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Fast Forward Aaron Keyak, former Biden Jewish engagement director, appointed as deputy antisemitism envoy
Aaron Keyak, who served as Jewish outreach director during President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, has been appointed as the State Department’s deputy envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism. The appointment comes amid a political fight over the Biden Administration’s pick for the top global antisemitism role. Deborah E. Lipstadt, the renowned Holocaust historian, was nominated…
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Fast Forward Harris and Emhoff place mezuzah on doorpost of vice president’s residence
Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff, who is Jewish, recently affixed a mezuzah to the doorpost of the vice president’s residence and have chosen another for the residence’s interior. A mezuzah, a tiny scroll with auspicious biblical verses ensconced in a decorative case, in Judaism marks the home as a sacred space….
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