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Newt Faces Tough Road Ahead
Newt Gingrich is in for a tough few weeks. Following a decisive loss to Mitt Romney in Florida, Gingrich will move through a number of contests that appear to favor Romney before Super Tuesday, on March 6, analysts say. Next up for the Republicans is Nevada, which will hold its caucuses on February 4. Romney…
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Opinion Florida Exit Polls Suggest Fewer Jews Vote GOP
Florida’s Jewish voters were in the crosshairs of Republican efforts to peel support away from President Obama in the general election. Exit polls from the Republican primary suggest that the strategy may not be working particularly well. According to polls posted by Fox News, only 1% of voters in today’s Republican primary identified themselves as…
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Opinion Obama’s Jewish Mega-Bundlers
Disclosures released today by the Obama campaign cite more prominent Jews among Obama’s top fundraisers. Prominent additions in the latest quarterly report include American Council for World Jewry chair Jack Rosen and former chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Alan Solow. The Forward reported in December that Obama had lost…
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Opinion Gingrich: Romney Made Survivors Eat Treyf!
Mitt Romney forced Holocaust survivors to eat non-Kosher food, a Gingrich robocall claimed today. The claim ties longstanding criticism over a 2003 veto Romney signed as Massachusetts governor to the specter of mistreated Holocaust survivors in an 11th-hour bid for south Florida’s Jewish vote. The call, available here, references a bill Romney vetoed as governor…
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Opinion The Super Schlep
The Great Schlep is back. That’s the campaign that, in 2008, enlisted comedian Sarah Silverman to guilt young Jews into traveling to Florida to convince their grandparents to vote for Barack Obama. Now, the organization that ran the Great Schlep has reorganized for the 2012 campaign — this time as a super PAC. “If Barack…
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Opinion Who the !?@# Is Saul Alinsky?!
“Republicans have created this completely fictional president. His name is Barack X. And he is an Islamo-Socialist-Revolutionary who is coming for your guns, raising your taxes, slashing the military, apologizing to other countries, and taking his cues from Europe, or worse yet…Saul Alinsky!” — Bill Maher (note: contains explicit language; in other words, this is…
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Opinion Echoes of U.S. Racism in Israel
An easy case followed by a harder case: At the beginning January, Israel’s Channel 2 reported that it had encountered in the town of Kiryat Malachi what used to be called here in the United States a “restrictive covenant.” Such a covenant is a legal device that enables the seller (or renter) of real estate…
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Opinion Wiesenthal Center Posts Anti-Semitic Cartoons
The Simon Wiesenthal Center yesterday trumpeted its success in forcing YouTube to remove a heinously anti-semitic Iranian animated cartoon. Putting the principles of free speech aside for a second, it’s difficult to see what possible good YouTube could be doing by hosting such hateful propaganda. As the Wiesenthal Center notes, the campaign of which the…
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Opinion Bagels and Iran
Democrats walk a fine line these days when they reach out to the organized, activist wing of the Jewish community. One side beckons with an ardent, almost scolding reminder of the Jewish mandate to care for the needy. On the other side, an urgent, almost pleading defense of the Democrats’ record on Israel. The danger:…
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Opinion The Adelson Factor
Any discussion of Sheldon Adelson’s dominant role in both American and Israeli politics must begin with a fundamental ackowledgement: Everything about it is legal and transparent. But that is what makes it even more troubling. In just the past month, Adelson and his wife, Miriam, have garnered headlines in the United States by donating a…
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Letters Successes, Too
As the Rabbi of Congregation B’nai Israel in Northampton, Mass., I was certainly proud of the Lander Grinspoon Academy, our local K-6 day school, cited in a recent article as an exception to the trend of other Schechter-affiliated schools shrinking or closing (“What Does Schechter Decline Mean?” January 27). However, I also believe it is…
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