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Fast Forward AOC Tangles With Jewish Hollywood Power Player Aaron Sorkin On Twitter
Director Aaron Sorkin went after freshman members of Congress in an interview with CNN, saying that the Democrats needed to “stop acting like young people,” The Guardian reported. “I really like the new crop of young people who were just elected to Congress. They now need to stop acting like young people, OK? It’s time…
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Fast Forward Joe Lieberman Takes Another Dig At ‘Silly’ AOC
Former Senator Joe Lieberman is going strong with his criticism of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York Post reported. Lieberman returned to Fox News on Sunday, reiterating on “Sunday Morning Futures” why he doesn’t see the freshman congresswoman as the future of the Democratic Party. “She just takes us back to the big-spending, big-taxing Democratic…
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Fast Forward Joe Lieberman, 76, Tells AOC, 29: You Aren’t The Future Of Democratic Party
Joe Lieberman, former Democratic Senator from Connecticut, made it clear he is not a fan of New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “With all respect, I certainly hope she’s not the future and I don’t believe she is,” Lieberman said Thursday on Fox Business Network. Lieberman, 76, explained that Ocasio-Cortez, 29, is too “different” and “controversial”…
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Fast Forward Mark Cuban: AOC Is A Game Changer — But Should Tone Down Partisan Language
Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban said he’s a fan of Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her radical style, but he also thinks she should tone down her partisan language, Business Insider reported. He told BI on Monday that he sees the freshman congresswoman, who was sworn into office last week, as a potential game changer. “My…
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Fast Forward Ex-Trump Troll Tells AOC To ‘Keep Being You’ After Dancing Video Surfaces
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had many fierce defenders after a nine-year-old video of her dancing while in college surfaced online — including reformed Trump troll David Weissman. Several months ago, Weissman, a U.S. Army veteran from New York now living in Israel wouldn’t have been found advocating for the newly sworn-in New York congresswoman. He was…
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Israel News Democratic Newcomers Herald ‘New Reality’ For Israel In Congress
The new U.S. Congress held its first session on Thursday, ushering in a new generation of Democratic lawmakers and possibly signaling a new era in Israel-U.S. relations. For the first time since entering the White House two years ago, U.S. President Donald Trump will have to deal with a new reality in which his political…
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Fast Forward Ocasio-Cortez Has ‘No Plans’ To Travel To Israel — Or Anywhere Else — Right Now
Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will not join other new members of congress on an AIPAC-affiliated trip to Israel later this year, and does not have plans to go on any other trips to the region. “She wants to make sure that she’s getting a full picture of what daily life is like in the region,” Corbin…
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News Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Sephardic Claim Unleashes Fierce Debate About Jewish Identity
Crypto-Jews. Secret Jews. Conversos. Marranos. B’nai Anusim. These are the terms used for Jews, mainly of Spanish descent, who were forced to convert to Catholicism or die during the period of Spain’s Inquisition. While many Sephardic Jews did convert, some continued to practice their Judaism in secret. Now, this 500-year history of hidden Jewish lineage…
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