(JTA) — The remains of a Jewish poet were reburied in Belarus under a crucifix in a ceremony that featured prayers by priests. The reburial of Shmuel Yefimovich Plavnik, better known by his pen name Zmitrok Byaduli, took place on Tuesday at a Christian cemetery in Minsk, promoting critics to complain that it erased the…
(JTA) — As Pennsylvania counts its votes with the nation watching anxiously, the person in charge of making sure the ballots are tallied is an official once described as someone out of a “bar mitzvah photo.” Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s Democratic and Jewish attorney general, is the man charged with ensuring the legality of the state’s…
Aaron Coleman, a Democratic candidate for the Kansas House of Representatives who has been accused of several acts of sexual harassment, including distributing revenge porn, has won the seat. Coleman, 20, ran unopposed in the general election. When he takes office, Coleman will be one of the youngest representatives to sit in any state legislature….
Raquel Montoya-Lewis, the first Native American woman to sit on Washington State’s Supreme Court, and only the second to sit on any supreme court in the country, has won her reelection campaign, according to the Spokesman Review. Montoya-Lewis first won that title in January, when she was nominated by Gov. Jay Inslee to fill the…
Reverend Paula White, President Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser and a prominent Christian Zionist, held a prayer service for the president last night during which she blamed the lack of a Trump victory on “demonic confederacies.” Earlier in the service, another evangelical leader compared Trump supporters challenging vote counting to the soldiers of King David, standing…
A former Israeli Knesset member from the country’s Druze religious minority is accusing American Jews of having no “gratitude,” and of “betrayal,” for voting overwhelmingly for former Vice President Joe Biden. On Twitter, Ayoob Kara, who served as a member of the Likud party until 2019, said that he was surprised American Jews did not…
In North Carolina, a Jewish leader and political neophyte won a seat in Congress. In New York, a sitting congressman who’d barely won in 2018 lost this round. Other races are still too close to call, but as the day goes on, more questions are getting answered. Here’s an update on the big Jewish races…
Sen. Bernie Sanders predicted the uncertainty that has now enveloped the United States presidential election. “You’re going to have a situation, I suspect, in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, other states where they are going to be receiving huge amounts of mail-in ballots,” said the Jewish senator from Vermont, whom Joe Biden defeated in the…
(JTA) — Cori Bush, a Democrat who expressed support for the movement to boycott Israel, is set to become the St. Louis area’s next congresswoman. Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, who also support the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel — known as BDS — are also expected to win. A now-deleted…
Jewish conservative icon Ben Shapiro broke ranks with the Trump administration in a tweet Wednesday morning, calling the president’s claim of an early electoral victory “deeply irresponsible.” No, Trump has not already won the election, and it is deeply irresponsible for him to say he has. — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 4, 2020 Shapiro, a…
(JTA) — Jewish voters favored Joe Biden over Preident Donald Trump 77%-21% in an exit poll. The numbers, in a poll by GBAO Strategies for J Street, a liberal Jewish Middle East advocacy group which endorsed Biden, was of 800 voters who voted early or who answered questions on election night. The poll released in…
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