Election Day! While the Democrats’ quest to take back the House and Senate is definitely today’s main story, there are also a number of ballot initiatives to watch. Voters in a number of states, including ones with close congressional races, are considering a variety of ballot initiatives designed to spur turn-out from the religious right,…
Forward reporter Beth Schwartzapfel has the latest dust-up stemming from the Republican Jewish Coalition’s ad campaign: Lawyer and Democratic activist Paul Kujawsky is taking issue with the most recent in the Republican Jewish Coalition’s spate of print ads promoting Republican candidates that they identify as being strong on Israel. In the ad, Kujawsky, Vice President…
The contest between Republican Rep. Charlie Bass and Democratic challenger Paul Hodes in New Hampshire’s second congressional district is currently a toss-up, and will be one of the country’s most closely watched races tomorrow. Hodes ran against Bass in 2004 and won just 38% of the vote. Hodes started this campaign season with a twenty-point…
The race for Wyoming’s single House seat is coming down to the wire, with polls showing Democrat Gary Trauner continuing to gain on six-term Republican Rep. Barbara Cubin. Cubin has run a particularly bare-knuckled campaign for months, but has potentially skated on to thin ice – frosted with ethnic insinuations – with a recent television…
The sample size is small – only 27 Jews out of over 1400 respondents – but a poll conducted by the Columbus Dispatch over the past week found that 85% support Democrat Sherrod Brown over Republican Mike DeWine in the state’s Senate contest.
Edward J. Klein of Jamaica Estates, N.Y., writes: “I have heard two words claiming to be Yiddish which I understand are Polish. One is nigde, meaning never, as in ‘The Messiah will come on Shabbes nigde.’ The other is povatinye, meaning spiderweb. Are these legitimate Yiddish words?” Passing over the fact that povatinye is Ukrainian,…
Two soldiers wearing olive-drab ski masks against the autumn chill stood last weekend at a checkpoint on the road into Bir Nabalah, a West Bank village north of Jerusalem. Palestinian cars waited in line 100 yards away. One by one, they moved up to the checkpoint, where one of the Israeli soldiers glanced inside each…
A vulnerable Republican incumbent battling for re-election in suburban Chicago is facing criticism this week — including a call for a federal investigation — over an e-mail message in which an aide seemingly threatened to punish Tel Aviv University because one of its top American donors was backing the Democratic challenger. The incumbent, Rep. Mark…
The Bush administration is planning to ratchet up pressure on Tehran at the United Nations by invoking the recent Argentine indictment of top Iranian leaders in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish communal center in Buenos Aires. Several sources told the Forward that Washington intended to highlight Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism to convince reluctant…
UMAN, Ukraine –Ex-Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke visited Ukraine’s largest university last week to give a stump speech on what he calls “radical Jewish extremists” — his phrase for the Israeli and American government. Duke has become a regular at the university, the Inter-Regional Academy of Personnel Management, which is known by its Ukrainian…
BERLIN — A recent soccer match in the German capital turned into an orgy of rioting and antisemitism, as a spate of anti-Jewish incidents is fueling fears that neo-Nazis are gaining a strong foothold in German politics and society. Three hundred rioters attacked security guards at an October 27 match between the Berlin team Hertha…
