Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News Reshuffled Primaries Have Candidates Betting on Nevada
When it comes to presidential primaries, Jewish Americans have generally found themselves sitting on the sidelines in such late-voting states as New York, New Jersey and California. This year, due to the reshuffling of the primary calendar, the community has the potential to have an impact in at least one key battleground state. Nevada —…
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News Barbra Streisand Joins Team Hillary
It’s official: Babs is for Hill. Continuing its push to amass a mountain of bold-faced endorsements, the Clinton campaign announced this morning that the legendary singer loves the sound of “Madame President.” Here’s the press release: Barbra Streisand Endorses Hillary Clinton Legendary filmmaker, artist, and Democratic activist, Barbra Streisand, today endorsed Hillary Clinton for President….
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News Scandal Tarnishes Holy Land Baseball Diamonds
After a bumpy first season marked by allegations of financial mismanagement, Israel’s fledgling baseball league suffered a new setback last week with the sudden departure of its commissioner and a dozen volunteer advisers. Daniel Kurtzer, a former American ambassador to both Egypt and Israel who served as the first commissioner of the Israel Baseball League,…
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News Number of Orthodox Court Clerks Jumps Thanks to Scalia
While Jews in general have been well represented among the Supreme Court’s clerks in recent decades, the same cannot be said of the Orthodox. Court watchers say you can count on one hand the number of Orthodox Jews who have served as clerks, but that figure will see a significant jump in 2008, when Harvard…
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News Candidates and Muslim Groups Keep Distance From Each Other
The annual meeting of one of the country’s leading Muslim American organizations is still several weeks away, but the list of probable no-shows currently includes a half-dozen presidential front-runners. The meeting, to be held December 15 in Los Angeles by the Muslim Public Affairs Council, falls little more than two weeks before the candidates will…
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News Push To Investigate Bush’s Faith-Based Office Puts Jewish Groups in Quandary
The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives has been a thorn in the side of church-state watchdogs since its creation in 2001, but when a network of civil rights organizations urged Congress to investigate the office last week, a number of liberal Jewish groups declined to join. Last Friday, the Coalition Against Religious…
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News Who’s Striking: Nora Ephron
The Writers Guild picket line moves to Silver Cup Studios in Long Island City tomorrow, and none other than Nora Ephron is “supposed to” attend, according to Sherry Goldberg of Writers Guild of America East. Given that late-night writers turned out in droves to Rockefeller Center today, can we also expect appearances from some of…
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News Writers On Strike, With An Assist from Obama
Forgive us if we in the Forward newsroom are paying a little bit of extra attention to the Writers Guild strike. We’re union members ourselves, and the whole brouhaha has our favorite celebrities going all lefty on us: SNL’s Tina Fey and Seth Myers are uptown picketing at Rockefeller Center; Jon Stewart may or may…
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