Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the 2020 election. Visit here for the latest news on the candidates running for president. The race began with 25 Democrats and two Republicans, including President Trump, who is running for reelection. There are…
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Culture ‘Borat 2’ is a riot, but slandering a nation’s history goes too far
Borat was never a victimless enterprise. In “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America,” the Kazakh journalist invited an RV full of frat brothers to reminisce about the days of slavery (they needed zero prompting, save for their companion’s foreign, sympathetic presence). More troublingly, a kindly Jewish couple operating a kosher bed and breakfast provided the venue…
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Community When conversations with friends can have real power
It can often feel pointless to talk about politics with someone who disagrees with you; it can lead to a heated argument in which neither side budges. Especially with friends and family, many people opt to avoid the conversation to protect the relationship. But those conversations are the most impactful. Below, Jonah Sanderson, a rabbinic…
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Culture At 94, Mel Brooks makes his first ever political endorsement ad
While Mel Brooks has dabbled in the local politics of a frontier town, enjoined theatergoers to join a Nazi kickline and famously proclaimed “It’s good to be king,” he’s never made a video endorsing a political candidate. Even at 94, there’s a first time for everything. On October 21, Brooks’ son Max posted his father’s…
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News Jewish swing-state voters support Biden in higher numbers than Clinton: poll
Jewish voters in the crucial swing states of Pennsylvania and Florida overwhelmingly favor Democrat Joe Biden in the upcoming presidential election, according to a poll released Wednesday by J Street. Three-quarters of likely Jewish voters in Pennsylvania plan to vote for Biden, compared to 22% who support Trump. In Florida, Jewish voters break for Biden…
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Life Where schmoozing meets suffrage: meet the all-online tribe getting young Jews to the polls
On Wednesday night, about 50 young Jewish women gathered to hear a stump speech from Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen, a self-described “young-at-heart Jewish woman” and surrogate for the Biden campaign. Instead of standing in an auditorium or a stadium, the women were sitting at desks or in bed, brought together virtually by Jewish Women for…
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Culture ‘The Simpsons’ reminds us of Trump’s ‘disloyal’ Jews comments
While the question of cultural sensitivity and “The Simpsons” remains fluid, the show has always been attuned to the unique concerns of American Jewry. So it’s no real surprise that the forthcoming “Treehouse of Horror” special reminds us of the worst thing President Trump ever said about our voting trends. In the episode, which opens…
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Fast Forward Jewish Kansas state House candidate was arrested as teenager for threatening to shoot female student
(JTA) — Aaron Coleman, the 20-year-old Jewish student and Democratic nominee for a state House seat in Kansas, was arrested in 2015 for threatening to shoot a female student at a local high school. The revelations about the arrest further detail Coleman’s history of harassing woman. This summer, Coleman admitted to calling a girl fat…
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Community Do talk politics with family this election
Watching the flames in California along with the destruction of lives and livelihoods in Kenosha, it suddenly hit me that we can either grow together or burn together. I say this as both a Holocaust-traumatized Jew and as a family therapist. Seeing fear in the faces of children most days in my practice on Zoom…
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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