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Jewish Chief Justice Campaigns to Keep His Seat in Ohio
Think you have a good grip of all the Jewish candidates running for office in the November elections? Well, how about Judge Eric Brown from Ohio? Yes, he is Jewish, and yes, he is running. Eric Brown, if elected, will be the first Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. In fact, he already is….
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Senator Barbara Boxer Answers Our Questions
In early September, MitzVote sent a questionnaire to candidates we wanted to learn more about. We’ve just received our answers from California Senator Barbara Boxer — the Democratic incumbent who is fighting Republican Carly Fiorina to defend her seat — via Boxer campaign research director Rosa Po. Here’s what Boxer had to say, word for…
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Bagels and Ballots – Thursday
Big Bucks: Florida’s Republican senatorial candidate Marco Rubio has held a lead in polls against rivals independent Charlie Crist and Democrat Kendrick Meek — and yesterday posted that he raised $5 million in the last quarter. As Politico’s Alexander Burns puts it: “that’s a ridiculous fundraising performance, and if one of Rubio’s two opponents can…
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How Will Jews React to ‘Budrus’?
Protesters in the Palestinian town of Budrus were growing frustrated. After months of nonviolently demonstrating against the Israeli separation barrier being built through their olive groves, the demonstrators faced increased force from Israeli border police who were firing tear gas and swinging batons. Young Palestinians began tossing rocks at the soldiers despite pleas from protest…
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J Street Board Sticks With Ben-Ami After Soros Flap
On September 25, a day after J Street, the dovish Israel lobby he helped found, was revealed to be funded by George Soros, Jeremy Ben-Ami convened a conference call with members of his group’s board. Ben-Ami, the lobby’s president, had already alerted board members by e-mail about an upcoming report in The Washington Times revealing…
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Avital Emerges in Fight To Save Shcharansky
This is the last of three excerpts from Forward staff writer Gal Beckerman’s new book, “When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle To Save Soviet Jewry,” published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in September. Not long after Anatoly Shcharansky was accused in a Soviet newspaper of being a CIA agent, he was…
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A Football Team That Recites the Sh’ma
San Diego Jewish Academy, which fields what it says is the nation’s only all-Jewish high school football team, is experiencing its share of tsuris. Last season, its first year of playing 11 boys on a side, the academy won six games and lost two to make the playoffs and raise expectations. But in the offseason,…
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Venezuela Community in Eye of Storm As Chavez Assails Israel
It was just a few weeks ago that Fidel Castro condemned anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in Iran, telling the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg: “I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say, much more than the Muslims.” And already, the impact of Castro’s self-described message to Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is…
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Push To Amend Civil Rights Act Forces Basic Questions About Jewish Identity
When the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, it was seen as the main vehicle for ending racial discrimination against African Americans. Now, two Jewish lawmakers are trying to amend the law, in order to have it include protection for Jewish students on college campuses. In the process, they are taking on a heavy…
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What? Not All Jews Are Geniuses?
It’s that time of year again. As the temperature begins to dip and the leaves start to turn, the MacArthur “genius grants” fall from on high, followed quickly by the announcement of Nobel Prize recipients. And, as happens so often, Jews are prominent this year among the winners of each honor. Four Jews have won…
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Rick Sanchez Latest To Be Immediately Fired After Comments Hostile to Jews
By the time Rick Sanchez, now a former CNN anchor, made his remarks about Jews controlling the media, there was a well-established process for how to deal with these types of situations. Within 24 hours, he was summarily fired, with a curt thank-you for his service to the network. Call it crisis management on steroids….
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