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Bagels & Ballots: Eight Days and Counting
Weekend Uptick: Happy Monday! New polls suggest that independents are leaning Republican this year, as the GOP now leads the generic ballot 47% to 42% — and scored 14 more percentage points among independent voters. (Politico) And Now For Something Different: Simeon Kolko, a rabbi in Rochester, offers religious guidance for behavior this year’s “silly…
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Rules of Engagement
We are nearing the end of a time many like to refer to dismissively as the “silly season.” But for Jews, some of the antics on display during this year’s campaign should not just be blown off semantically that way, as if they had no wider repercussions for the health of the country, or our…
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Israel’s U.N. Envoy, a Lieberman Appointee, Says Peace Is Possible Within a Year
Ask Meron Reuben, Israel?s new interim United Nations envoy, what position he represents in a government whose top foreign policy voices take diametrically opposed stands on the timeline for reaching peace with the Palestinians and, like a diplomat, he avoids answering directly. ?There is a tendency ? to wend your way between the different views,?…
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Bagels & Ballots: It’s AFSCME Versus the Chamber of Commerce
Hey, Big Spender: As of Friday, the election’s biggest spender is the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. An 11th-hour push of $16 million to Democrats thrust the public-sector union ahead of the Chamber of Commerce. (The Wall Street Journal) Where Are They Now? In February, the Forward gave you a rundown of…
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The Ten to Watch: Where Are They Now?
In February, the Forward selected 10 top Jewish candidates to watch this election season. Eight months later, and with under two weeks before a contentious election season comes to a close, we check in with where the candidates stand today. Connecticut Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Richard Blumenthal is leading Republican Linda McMahon in a…
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Bagels & Ballots: Frozen Chosen Edition
Finding Jewish Candidates Where You’d Least Expect Them: Forward Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman takes us beyond the usual suspects New York in Florida and into … well, other places where Jews are running for office. Hint: think “beyond the lower 48.” (MitzVote) Watch the Jewish vote — in state government: On the question of a…
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Innovation by the Sea
It’s no secret that the densely populated Israeli city of Bat Yam has faced its share of urban problems and decay in recent years. But as “Timing 2010,” the city’s recent Biennale of Landscape Urbanism, shows, there is no shortage of ideas for transforming the city into a showcase for re-imagining Israel’s urban environments. Sigal…
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A Search for Plan ‘B’ as Hopes Fade for Direct Mideast Talks
As Israelis and Palestinians continue to reject compromise on the extension of a Jewish settlements freeze on the West Bank, all eyes are turning to Washington to see what happens next. With each side digging in on its demands regarding the settlements before they will agree to resume direct negotiations, diplomats and analysts are increasingly…
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Boxer-Fiorina Race Redefines ‘Negative’
It’s a late Monday afternoon in October, Election Day looming like a thunderhead over the Mojave Desert, and John Burton, chairman of the California Democratic Party, is gruff but confident. The campaign is “going fine for the senator,” he grumbles on the phone from his Sacramento office, noting the leading position his candidate, Barbara Boxer,…
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Schools Fight Stokes Anger At Orthodox Jews in N.Y. Suburb
The dirt road that someone cut through a few feet of brush to connect the Hasidic village of New Square to the playing fields of Hillcrest Elementary School in early October is only the latest in a series of puzzles surrounding the contested sale of the shuttered public school. In this ethnically divided section of…
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Wisconsin’s Feingold Fights for Political Life
For the past 18 years, Wisconsin, where Jews constitute 0.5% of the population, has sent two Jews to fill its Senate seats. But as Election Day nears, one of those two is now fighting for his political life. Over the course of three terms, Democrat Russ Feingold has earned a reputation as one of the…
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