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Newbie Wisconsin Republican Takes Lead Over Feingold
Polls A CNN/Time poll of likely voters released October 13 shows Republican challenger Ron Johnson leading incumbent Democrat Russ Feingold by 8 points. The poll showed Johnson picking up 52% support. Feingold, running for his fourth term in the Senate, got 44% support. Biographies Russ Feingold Party: Democratic Age: 57 Religion: Jewish Feingold is a…
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Illinois Senate Candidates Are Close in Polls and Views
Polls An October 5 Rasmussen Report poll showed Democrat Alexi Giannoulias and Republican Mike Kirk in a tight race. They are running for the seat now held by Roland Burris, who was appointed to the post by former Gov. Rod Blagojevich after then-Senator Barack Obama became President. Poll respondents gave Kirk 45% of the vote,…
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Israel Looms Large in Penn Senate Fight
Polls A September 21 poll by CNN/Time found Republican Pat Toomey earning 49% of the vote, five percentage points above his Democrat opponent Rep. Joe Sestak’s 44%. There was a 3.5 point margin of error. The poll showed an increase for Sestak from a September 20 Municipoll conducted for PoliticsPA that found Toomey had 45%…
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Three Senate Contenders Fight Hard for Florida Seat
Polls This race pits Republican Marco Rubio, former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, against Democratic U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, and the recently declared Independent Charlie Crist, the former Republican who is now Florida’s governor. A September 29 Rasmussen Reports poll based on a telephone survey put Rubio in the lead with 41%. Crist…
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Two Yentas Walk Into a Bar…
Got a favorite joke? Chances are, Sam Hoffman has heard it before. In early 2009, Hoffman, with business partner Eric Spiegelman, launched the web video series “Old Jews Telling Jokes.” Inspired by his own experiences at the family dinner table, where, he says, “It was more important to get the line out at the right…
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D.C. Mayoral Hopeful’s Sort-Of Jewish Past
The September 14 Democratic mayoral primary in Washington D.C. is drawing national attention, with the capital’s current mayor, Adrian Fenty locked in a tight race with challenger Vincent Gray. At issue are the future of the city’s education reform and Fenty’s style of governing; but as always there is also a Jewish angle. Vincent Gray,…
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Inking Her Way to the Top
Lily Renée Phillips — a Comic Books Icon — She Inked Her Way to the Top in a Male Domain Since Vienna-born Lily Renée Phillips had spoken to Adriane Quinlan for the article “A Real-Life Comic Book Superhero,” which appeared in the August 9 issue of Newsweek and in which Quinlan dubbed Phillips as “perhaps…
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Why Some Jewish Stars Support Israeli Artistic Boycott
Sixty-six years ago, Theodore Bikel, then a young actor in what would become the State of Israel, co-founded Tel Aviv’s Cameri Theatre. Today, Bikel is one of America’s iconic Jewish actors and folk singers, and is taking sides in a debate involving his fellow actors at the Cameri. Known to many as Tevye in “Fiddler…
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Swimming the English Channel For a Challenge and a Cause
With 25 miles between him and the coast of France, James Meier, a trim 66-year-old, jumped off a boat idling near Dover and into the cold waters of the English Channel. It was 3 a.m., and after more than a year of chasing the unexpected in training drills, he found himself immersed in what seemed…
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And in This Corner, Salita Boxes for Redemption
For nine months now, Dmitriy Salita, the Russian-Jewish welterweight, has been telling anyone who will listen that the reason for his humiliating loss to Amir Khan in England last December was the hostile, jeering, “anti-Semitic” environment in the Newcastle arena. On September 2, Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach was to be the site of his redemption. If…
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Elul Study Program Combines a University’s Diversity With a Yeshiva’s Passion
It’s prime time at Israel’s yeshivas. Working men who have taken a bit of vacation to study, and full-time bokhers, pore over religious texts to get focused in preparation for the High Holy Days. Intensive Torah-learning is a long-standing tradition during the Hebrew month of Elul, which ends the day before Rosh Hashanah. But it…
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