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Fast Forward ‘I Wrote The Damn Bill!’ Bernie Wants YOU To Elect A Cranky Old Jewish Man
Bernie Sanders and his staff are leaning into his cranky Jewish elder persona after Tuesday night’s Democratic debate in Detroit, seizing on the senator’s pissed-off exclamation about the provenance of the Medicare for All bill to produce a new set of swag like stickers emblazoned with his words for the ages — “I wrote the…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Sanders Says He’d ‘Absolutely’ Consider Cutting Aid To Israel
(JTA) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said he would “absolutely” consider cutting U.S. aid to Israel to pressure the Israeli government to act different. “This is not easy stuff — to try to finally bring peace to the Middle East and to treat the Palestinian people with a kind of respect and dignity they…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Opens Up About His Struggles Growing Up In Brooklyn
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said he was encouraged to fight for equal access to health care after his mother’s early death, the Associated Press reported. Sanders, a Democratic presidential candidate, rarely talks about any personal connections to his policies. But in a recent interview with the AP, he shared how losing his mother Dorothy at…
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Fast Forward Sanders Campaign Workers Say They’re Only Being Paid ‘Poverty Wages’
(JTA) — Unionized campaign organizers working for Bernie Sanders’ presidential effort complained that their employment terms fall short of Sanders’ rhetoric on labor standards. Campaign hires have demanded an annual salary equivalent to a $15-an-hour wage, which Sanders, a senator who is Jewish and who describes himself as a democratic socialist, for years has said…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Visited The Tree Of Life Synagogue – Secretly
Sen. Bernie Sanders forbade his campaign staff from publicizing a visit he paid to the site of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre in April because he didn’t want the visit to be seen as a “publicity grab,” The New York Times reported Saturday. Sanders, who is Jewish, met with the rabbi of the Tree of Life…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Is Proud Of His ‘Anti-Endorsements’ From Billionaires
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bernie Sanders’s campaign says he is proud not to include Haim Saban as a backer of his presidential bid. The Sanders campaign put the pro-Israel entertainment mogul and major Democratic Party funder first on a list of 13 “anti-endorsements” — that is, public figures whose support Sanders either doesn’t want or isn’t…
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The Schmooze Bernie Sanders Insists That He’s Not A Grumpy Self-Hating Jew
In a quippy new social media video, Bernie Sanders cracks a joke, then talks about race, Judaism, abortion, and basketball. Not Elizabeth Warren. Not Cory Booker. Bernie Sanders. In 2016, when Sanders faced off against Hillary Clinton, he enjoyed a cache of coolness, despite the two candidates’ matching papery white skin. Now, with all the…
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Culture Gamers Rejoice: Bernie Sanders Now Has A Twitch Account
As any 2020 presidential contender might tell you, the youth vote is important. Which explains why Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, hot off announcing a plan to cancel $1.6 trillion of student debt, is planning a series of videos to be streamed on Twitch, a tremendously popular live-streaming platform that caters to gamers and is known…
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