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Jewish Democrats Eye Historic Gains In Congress As #BlueWave Builds
Jewish Democrats are on the cusp of making major gains in the upcoming midterm elections with a Forward analysis now predicting at least 4 Jews will flip seats in the House of Representatives. With an anti-Trump #BlueWave building in suburbs from coast to coast, Jews are likely to win at least 27 seats when America…
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RNC Takes Neo-Nazi Money; Trump Campaign Still Hasn’t Returned Racists’ Gifts
Republicans have taken more money from neo-Nazis while President Trump’s reelection campaign has kept multiple donations from white supremacists, records show. Trump’s campaign has still not returned gifts from at least three white nationalists after the Forward exclusively reported their donations on July 30. The president’s 2020 election operation still has hundreds of dollars from…
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For Jewish Children Of Color, Finding Friends Like Them Is A Revelation
Aliza Hausman is a mixed-race Dominican Jew, and will do whatever it takes to secure a playdate for her son. She recently got up the nerve to approach a Japanese woman in the lobby of her son’s Modern Orthodox day school in Los Angeles. “I thought, am I a crazy person if I just go…
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Jewish Veteran Flush With Cash Narrows Lead Of Republican On Staten Island
Jewish Army vet Max Rose raised nearly five times more than his Republican rival from July through September in his bid to oust incumbent Rep. Dan Donovan in a Staten Island-centered district that could be key to the Democrats flipping the House on Nov. 6. Rose brought in $1.6 million and has than $1 million…
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Adelson-Backed PAC’s New Strategy Demonizes All Democrats
A super PAC Jewish conservative megadonor Sheldon Adelson helped found released an ad weeks ahead of the midterm vote linking Democratic candidates with radical leftist protesters bent on impeaching President Trump. Future45 will reportedly spend $10 million on the ad, “A Democrat,” which will air on ABC, NBC and CBS broadcast affiliates as well as…
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Perry Gershon Leverages Hamptons Star Power In Race Featuring Two Jews
Eastern Long Island is a study in contrasts. It’s got acres of farms, punctuated by mom-and-pop stores. But it’s also home to the Hamptons, where New York’s elite summers. After a day on the stump in early October, Perry Gershon’s campaign for the area’s congressional seat was working that Hamptons glitz with Alec Baldwin, who…
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Will Jacky Rosen’s Stint As Synagogue President Make Her A Better Senator?
When Nevada Senate candidate Jacky Rosen was thinking about running for Congress in 2016, she called her rabbi for advice. “I thought about it and I thought about the skills necessary for someone to run for Congress,” Rabbi Sanford Akselrad of Congregation Ner Tamid, the largest Reform synagogue in Nevada, told the Forward. “I said…
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Documents Reveal Board Of Shadowy Charity Linked To Canary Mission
The Israeli not-for-profit registered under the name Megamot Shalom was never meant to be found. Until early this month, its online footprint was almost nil. It has no official website, no public spokesman, and its listed address is an apparently empty office building on a rundown commercial strip in Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem. In…
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Brooklyn Moms Bond. 6 Years Later, A New Jewish Congregation Is Born.
Even in Brooklyn, there are wandering Jews. That’s how Marcella Kanfer Rolnick and Amy Abrams saw themselves in 2012. Both parents of students at the same Jewish school, the two women bonded over their shared longing for a spiritual home. “I felt like here I was telling my kids, ‘Go to a Jewish school, yes…
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Second Major Jewish Charity Admits Funding Group Tied To Canary Mission Blacklist
A second major U.S. Jewish charity has acknowledged to the Forward that it funded the Israeli charity that appears to run Canary Mission, the online blacklist of student activists that the Israeli government has used to interrogate and detain U.S. citizens. Between November of 2016 and September of 2017, the Jewish Community Foundation of Los…
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Israeli Spy Firm That Approached Trump First Proposed Dirty Tricks Against BDS
The Israeli private intelligence company that offered to manipulate social media for the Trump campaign offered similar services a year earlier to a group of U.S. Jewish donors who sought to target Israel’s critics, according to a document obtained by the Forward. In late 2015, the Israeli private intelligence firm Psy-Group approached an ad hoc…
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