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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders to Coke, Pepsi: I’m No Soda Shill
Coke and Pepsi are feeling the Bern this week, and not in a good way. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders demanded in a cease and desist letter that the behemoth corporations stop using him in their ads against soda taxes in San Francisco and Oakland. “Advertising from the American Beverage Association that implies that I oppose…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders’ Brother Crushed in British Parliamentary Election
Former Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders’ elder brother lost badly in his race to be elected to the British parliament. Larry Sanders was running as the Green Party candidate for the vacated House of Commons seat of former prime minister David Cameron in Witney, in the southern English countryside near Oxford. He came fourth out…
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News Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Spar Over Who’s More Like Bernie (That’s Right, Sanders)
Bernie Sanders was probably the most popular politician in Wednesday night’s debate. So popular, in fact, that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump found themselves fighting to align themselves with the statements of the rumpled Jewish liberal from Vermont. It was Clinton who first sought to side with Sanders, whom she fiercely battled for months during…
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Opinion Bernie Sanders’s Rosh Hashanah Sermon — and Its Radical Lesson for All Liberals
When a hacker leaked a trove of internal emails from the Democratic National Committee several months ago, one of them considered the condition of Bernie Sanders’s soul — and its potential as a wedge issue during the primary campaign against Hillary Clinton. “Does he believe in a God,” asked Brad Marshall, the DNC’s chief financial…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Movement Backs Pro-Israel Candidates — and Fierce Critics
(JTA) — A Florida state senator caught up in a boycott-Israel controversy. A Wisconsin state representative who combated anti-Israel bias on his campus. The diversity of Israel-related outlooks among the 63 candidates endorsed by Our Revolution underscores the eclecticism of the left-leaning movement launched last week by Bernie Sanders. The endorsed candidates represent an opening…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Progressive Movement Names Board Members
WASHINGTON — A prominent Jewish union leader and one of Bernie Sanders’ oldest friends and advisers are on the board of a movement launched by Sanders to drive the Democratic Party toward more progressive values. Sanders, the Independent senator from Vermont and the first Jewish candidate to win major party nominating contests, launched “Our Revolution”…
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News Jill Stein Trumpets Jewish Pride — but Falls Flat With Actual Jewish Voters
Jill Stein may forever hold the title of first Jewish woman presidential candidate, but Jewish voters refuse to embrace her as a historic figure. Nationally, between 3% and 5% of voters say they will cast their ballot for Stein, 66. That’s not a figure that would draw any attention under ordinary circumstances. But in an…
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News Catskills Congressional Candidate Takes Aim at Republican Donor Paul Singer
Eliminating the middleman, a Democratic candidate for a upstate New York seat in Congress is going after her Republican rival’s financial backer, Jewish billionaire Paul Singer. Zephyr Teachout, a progressive Democrat running for an open seat in New York’s 19th congressional district, has challenged Singer to debate her personally after the hedge fund titan sunk…
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