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Opinion The Socialist History That Explains Bernie Sanders’ Jewishness
Since launching his first campaign for the candidacy for the Democratic nomination, there’s been no shortage of ink spilled debating Bernie Sanders’s Jewishness. Scrutiny — often unfair — hinging on Sanders’s criticism of Israel, disinterest in synagogue, and non-Jewish spouse — has turned into an exercise in exclusion. Yet elsewhere, the senator has been seized…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Is Losing The Jewish Vote — And Maybe Everyone Else’s
Jews haven’t been enthusiastic about Bernie Sanders, and other voters appear to be feeling the same way. Sanders’ campaign has been without an Iowa political director since the late summer, and the numbers in the state reflect the struggle, The Washington Post reported. He is polling in third place at 11%, behind Elizabeth Warren (22%)…
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Opinion What Bernie Sanders Is Saying When He Won’t Talk About Being Jewish
You might think that as American Jews are suffering the worst anti-Semitic violence in the history of the United States, they would be taking comfort in the fact that, for the first time, there is a Jewish candidate for president with a non-negligible chance of success. They’re not. It turns out that Jews don’t like…
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Fast Forward Sanders Opens Up About His Judaism — Hebrew School, The Holocaust, And His Dad
Sen. Bernie Sanders, long reluctant to open up about his personal life, revealed more in an interview with Yahoo News about his upbringing in Brooklyn and his Jewish identity. Here’s what we learned: Immigration is personal to him. Yahoo reporter Hunter Walker showed Sanders the passenger manifest from the Lapland, the ship that Sanders’s father…
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Fast Forward Sarsour: I’m Proud To Help Elect Sanders As First Jewish President
(JTA) — Controversial political activist Linda Sarsour has been named a surrogate for Bernie Sander’s 2020 presidential campaign. Sarsour, a Palestinian-American woman who is a supporter of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, spoke on behalf of Sanders over the weekend in Brooklyn, New York, according to a video excerpt of the speech….
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Fast Forward Sanders Cites Family Holocaust History In Pitch For Unity At Muslim Convention
(JTA) — Sen. Bernie Sanders got a standing ovation at the Islamic Society of North America annual convention in Houston. Sanders spoke on Saturday to the conventions some 6,000 attendees, the first presidential candidate, along with Julian Castro, to address the gathering, the largest meeting of American Muslims. “I am here today because I believe…
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Fast Forward Florida Man Sentenced To Prison For Anti-Semitic Death Threats Against Sanders
(Reuters) – A Florida man was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Friday for threatening to behead U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, federal prosecutors said. The man, 58-year-old Robert Pratersch of Kissimmee, in September 2018 left three voicemail messages at Sanders’ Vermont office where he made anti-Semitic threats and threatened to…
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News Why Don’t More Jews Like Bernie Sanders?
The first sign of trouble might have been in May, when a poll showed him doing far worse among his fellow Jews than with Democratic voters in general. Or it could have been in July, when the Forward found that Jews formed a smaller part of his major donor base than nearly every other candidate….
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