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Warren’s departure leaves Sanders as the only hope for change
On Thursday, Elizabeth Warren ended her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Warren’s departure not only finalized the narrowing of a historically large and diverse primary field down to two; it represented the closing of one possible path for the party to take following its 2016 disaster, with Sanders and Biden giving voters a stark…
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Opinion Ignorance about the Holocaust is fueling anti-Semitism. So I wrote the Never Again Education Act.
In the spring of 1945, as the war in Europe was drawing to a close, a US Army unit began the liberation of Buchenwald, one of Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camps. It was the first such camp American forces had encountered. They alerted the office of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied…
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Opinion Israelis just voted against the two state solution
Exit polls and early results from Monday’s Israeli election predicted a reprise of the first of three elections that began last April: a victory for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his bloc of right-wing, nationalist, and religious parties. Unlike in September’s vote, when Netanyahu finished a disappointing second and was not close to reaching the…
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Opinion What Sanders’ shellacking in South Carolina means for the race
On Saturday night in South Carolina, former Vice President Joe Biden scored a resounding win against the rest of the Democratic Primary contenders. The candidate ended the night with 48.4% of the vote and, it wasn’t even close; Biden’s closest competition came from Bernie Sanders, who finished nearly 30 points behind him. Black voters have…
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Opinion The dam is breaking for LGBT acceptance in the Orthodox world
A few days ago, I saw a headline that read: “This Orthodox Jewish rabbi just performed his first-ever ‘joyous’ same-sex wedding.” As a gay Jew, this piqued my interest, but for the rest of the world, it seemed that this news went over with a yawn. It was covered dryly by the Times of Israel,…
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Opinion How AIPAC proved Bernie right
I had never been in the same room as a person who has defended genocide until Sunday afternoon at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference. Words like apartheid and genocide and ethnic cleansing are often thrown around in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, much to the chagrin of Israeli Jews and their…
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Opinion Jews love Israel but don’t vote on it, and other things everyone gets wrong
This week, the non-partisan Jewish Electorate Institute released a poll squarely aimed at the politics of Jewish American voters. Its conclusions offer a roundhouse refutation to the alarmists of all political stripes who insist that American Jews are a community in need of a politics of extremism. The first major finding is that American Jews…
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Opinion The only difference between Bibi and Gantz Is Ayman Odeh
Recently, Ayman Odeh, the leader of the mostly Arab Israeli political party the Joint List, sat down with and Benny Gantz, the leader of Kachol Lavan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s challenger for Israel’s premiership. A person with direct knowledge of the discussion who was only permitted to share it on the condition he…
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Opinion Warren or Sanders? 3 questions for undecided progressives
I recently joined the Democratic Party. As a progressive, I’d always stayed away from such membership, more comfortable defining myself as an “independent” – albeit not of the pareve, middle-of-the-road variety. Come Election Day, I’d support Democratic candidates without fail, but, with a few exceptions, that support was generally lukewarm. Most Democrats, I felt, were…
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Opinion How do Jews feel about Bernie’s Jewishness? It’s complicated.
“We don’t want Sanders at AIPAC. We don’t want him in Israel.” When Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, made that fiery statement to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Sunday, he sounded like he was trying to cast Vermont Senator and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders out of the Jewish community…
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Opinion ‘Bernie Bro’ aggression is actually political engagement. And that’s a good thing.
If you’ve read anything about Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, you’ve probably heard of the infamous “Bernie Bro.” The political media has made a veritable meme out of a faction of overly enthusiastic Sanders supporters, some of whom engage in rude behavior online towards other candidates and their supporters. While most…
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