Polls The most recent poll, taken by Anzalone Liszt Research for the campaign of Democrat Dan Seals and released September 7, showed Seals ahead of Republican Bob Dold, 46% to 38%. The poll had a 4.4% margin of error. Congressional Quarterly rates the race, for the seat covering Chicago’s affluent north suburbs, as a toss-up….
Polls Republican Portman led Fisher by 50% to 37% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll of 600 registered voters, including 440 who said they were likely to vote, released September 28. The poll had a 4% margin of error. A September 14 CNN/Time Poll of likely voters gave Republican Rob Portman 52% of the vote, leading Democrat…
Polls Several political websites, including the New York Times and Congressional Quarterly, are calling the race in favor of Democratic incumbent Michael McMahon. A Sept. 19-22 internal poll McMahon commissioned from Global Strategy Group showed that of 500 likely voters, he leads Republican opponent Michael Grimm 51% to 33%, with 16% undecided. New York’s 13th…
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…
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,…
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%…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
