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Opinion Bernie Sanders Should Just Keep His Mouth Shut On The High Holidays
Last week, Bernie Sanders gave a much-touted foreign policy speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, the same location where Winston Churchill delivered his famous “Iron Curtain” address in 1946. The contents of the speech were intriguing. So was its timing. Sanders delivered it on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. This has become a…
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Fast Forward Is Bernie Sanders The Democrats’ New Foreign Policy Guru?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bernie Sanders, a senator from Vermont, is still an Independent, but he’s no longer an outsider. That became clear this month when some Democratic establishment stalwarts in the Senate signed on to his “Medicare-for-All” bill, which would establish a single-payer system for health care. Hillary Clinton is on a book tour and…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders: U.S. ‘Complicit’ In Israeli Occupation
(JTA) — Sen. Bernie Sanders said the United States is “complicit” in Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. “But that is not to say … that Israel is the only party at fault,” Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, said in an interview with The Intercept news website published on Friday evening. Sanders…
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Fast Forward 7 Jewish Senators Push Netanyahu To Act On Western Wall Prayer
(JTA) — Bernie Sanders is among seven Jewish-American senators who sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging him to implement an agreement to expand an egalitarian prayer plaza at the Western Wall. Netanyahu’s Cabinet put a hold in June on the deal passed in 2016, drawing the ire of American Jewish leaders. In the…
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Fast Forward Sanders Scoffs At Clinton Criticism: ‘I Worked As Hard As I Could’ To Elect Her
Sen. Bernie Sanders rebuffed former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s claim that he did not do enough to help his former Democratic party nomination rival win the 2016 presidential election. “I worked as hard as I could to see that Hillary Clinton would be elected president,” Sanders told “Meet the Press” on Sunday. In…
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Fast Forward Joe Lieberman Hates Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-For-All Plan
Joe Lieberman and Bernie Sanders may have a lot in common—proud Jews born less than a year apart, failed presidential candidates representing New England, political independents willing to buck the Democratic party line (though Lieberman skewed right and Sanders left). But despite having overlapped in the Senate together for six years, Lieberman did not have…
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Fast Forward Ta-Nehisi Coates Blasts Bernie Sanders For ‘Alarming’ Rhetoric On Race
Ta-Nehisi Coates slammed Bernie Sanders for being far too focused on white working-class voters — at the expense of blacks and other racial minorities. In an essay for The Atlantic, titled “Donald Trump Is the First White President,” Coates faulted Sanders for using “alarming” and “shocking” language on race, class and the issue of political…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Brushes Off Hillary Clinton’s Criticism Over Election Loss
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen. Bernie Sanders sidestepped criticism from Hillary Clinton that he paved the way to Donald Trump’s victory with his attacks against her in the Democratic primary. Sanders, I-Vt., said he preferred to focus on countering the Trump agenda. “My response is that right now it’s appropriate to look forward and not backward,”…
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