Joy Resmovits
By Joy Resmovits
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News Bagels & Ballots: [Almost] Throwing In the Towel
Ohio Looking Very, Very Red: While several election battles are waging in Ohio, the fight appears to be over for one Democrat: Senatorial candidate Lee Fisher, the state’s Jewish lieutenant governor. Even after boosts from actors Matthew Morrison and Martin Sheen, Fisher turned over his small lump of $100,000 in campaign cash over to the…
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News Price of Beauty: Boycotts and ?Buycotts?
The Middle East conflict has inflamed college campuses, bedeviled political campaigns and sparked street demonstrations. But cosmetics stores are the latest, and perhaps least likely, sites so far to bear witness to the sprawling nature of this ever deepening dispute. At Ricky?s NYC in Brooklyn Heights ? part of a self-described ?edgy, ultra-hip? chain of…
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News Bagels & Ballots: The Trouble Down South
What’s the Matter With Florida? Jewish Democrats aren’t doing well in … South Florida? What’s up with that? It’s a sign of the times, the Forward’s Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman suggests. “Trailing in the polls is probably the only thing the two Jewish Floridians have in common.” (MitzVote) Mama Obama Raises the Vote: After a…
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News Bagels & Ballots: Eight Days and Counting
Weekend Uptick: Happy Monday! New polls suggest that independents are leaning Republican this year, as the GOP now leads the generic ballot 47% to 42% — and scored 14 more percentage points among independent voters. (Politico) And Now For Something Different: Simeon Kolko, a rabbi in Rochester, offers religious guidance for behavior this year’s “silly…
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News Israel’s U.N. Envoy, a Lieberman Appointee, Says Peace Is Possible Within a Year
Ask Meron Reuben, Israel?s new interim United Nations envoy, what position he represents in a government whose top foreign policy voices take diametrically opposed stands on the timeline for reaching peace with the Palestinians and, like a diplomat, he avoids answering directly. ?There is a tendency ? to wend your way between the different views,?…
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News Bagels & Ballots: It’s AFSCME Versus the Chamber of Commerce
Hey, Big Spender: As of Friday, the election’s biggest spender is the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. An 11th-hour push of $16 million to Democrats thrust the public-sector union ahead of the Chamber of Commerce. (The Wall Street Journal) Where Are They Now? In February, the Forward gave you a rundown of…
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News Bagels & Ballots: Frozen Chosen Edition
Finding Jewish Candidates Where You’d Least Expect Them: Forward Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman takes us beyond the usual suspects New York in Florida and into … well, other places where Jews are running for office. Hint: think “beyond the lower 48.” (MitzVote) Watch the Jewish vote — in state government: On the question of a…
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News Bagels & Ballots: Counting the Days
Counting on Labor: Two candidates included in our Races to Watch are the subjects of negative union-backed ad campaigns: Pat Toomey for Pennsylvania senate, and Mark Kirk for Illinois senate, Republicans both. In Pennsylvania, the union will announce $2 million in campaign efforts, including a push for voter turnout for Democrat Joe Sestak. In Illinois,…
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