Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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Culture Nonprofit CEO Focuses on Social Justice
As a young labor organizer in the late 1990s, Simon Greer was particularly fond of a certain motto often recited by his boss: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me?” But having grown up without any ties to the organized Jewish community, Greer was unaware that the quotation is part of…
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News Pelosi Faces Possible Fights Over Top Posts
As triumphant Democrats begin a season of post-election jockeying, congressional insiders are speculating that Rep. Tom Lantos could face a challenge for the chairmanship of the House International Relations Committee. Lantos, a prominent foreign policy hawk and initially an outspoken supporter of the war in Iraq, has long raised the ire of more liberal Democrats,…
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News Polls: Democrats Score Big Win With Jewish Voters
The elections are over (except for a few recounts), but Jewish Democrats and Jewish Republicans are still doing battle — with competing poll results relating to Jewish voting patterns. Democrats are touting the results of an independent nonpartisan national survey that was conducted for the National Election Pool by Edison Media Research of Somerville, N.J.,…
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News The House: Dems Count on Jewish Candidates
As Democrats seek to pick up 15 seats to win control of the House of Representatives, they are counting on several of the dozen or so Jewish candidates fighting to replace Republican incumbents. According to polls, the most likely Democratic pick-up is in Arizona’s eighth district, where state lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords — great-granddaughter of a…
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News The Senate: N.J. Incumbent Holds Slight Lead, Other Races Tight
As one of the country’s most closely watched Senate races — and the only one involving an endangered Democratic incumbent — comes down to the wire in the Garden State, recent polling shows Democratic Senator Bob Menendez with a slight lead over political scion and state lawmaker Tom Kean Jr. Democrats need to pick up…
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News Trailing in Polls, GOP Senator Reaches Out to Jews
As Senator Rick Santorum held court at an October 19 campaign event, he evoked the menace of Islamic fundamentalists — and laid down a guilt trip — to rally dozens of Jewish supporters. Trailing in a race that could hand back control of the Senate to the Democrats, Santorum warned the 50 supporters in attendance…
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News Rabbi Issues Appeal for Santorum
A Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi from Brooklyn sent out a mass e-mail Monday asking recipients to show support for embattled Senator Rick Santorum. “At this moment, we need to show our support for Rick Santorum,” Rabbi Shea Hecht wrote in the missive. The rabbi asked recipients to urge the senator’s rival, Democrat Bob Casey Jr., to return…
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News Dems Repudiate Carter Book
Top Democrats are rushing to repudiate former President Carter’s controversial new book on the Middle East, in which he accuses the Israeli government of maintaining an apartheid system. Two key party leaders — Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, party chairman, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — and several congressmen issued statements Monday saying…
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