Zachary Kohn
By Zachary Kohn
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News Jews, North Carolinians, Democrats
When North Carolina’s largest city was named in February as the Democratic party’s choice for its presidential nominating convention in the late summer of 2012, Jews in the “Queen City” began giving some thought to their role. With a local Jewish community roughly the size of Obama’s slim margin of victory in North Carolina in…
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News A DREAM Deferred
As the 112th Congress gathers steam this month, a major immigration-rights bill, the DREAM Act — which enjoys broad Jewish support and passed in the lame duck Democratic House of Representatives last year — faces a cloudy future in the new Republican-majority House. Despite the more conservative Congress, as well as the previous Senate’s failure…
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