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News Ben of Ben & Jerry’s Still Voting for Bernie, ‘But Maybe You Shouldn’t’
Unlike the Bernie Sanders supporters who insist everyone should vote for him come November even though he’s not the Democratic nominee for president, Ben and Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen is thinking strategically. He despises Hillary Clinton, but he believes Donald Trump to be a “huge evil” and a unique threat to American democracy, and says…
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News Jill Stein Picks Up Pro-Palestinian Rally Cry After Bernie Sanders Defeat
Jill Stein is hoping to pick up the mantle of Bernie Sanders’s leftist revolution — and she’s not afraid to openly slam Hillary Clinton on Israel. The Green Party presidential candidate is pushing sharply divergent positions on the Palestinians, U.S. military aid to Israel, Sheldon Adelson, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Two weeks ago, when…
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Opinion How Bernie Sanders Flipped the ‘Crotchety Jewish Socialist’ Script on Hillary Clinton
After a chaotic, crisis-ridden day of jeering Bernie Sanders supporters, hacked emails (what is it about Hillary Clinton and emails, anyway?) and a party leader humiliatingly deposed, the Democratic Party formally opened its Philadelphia convention on July 25 and quickly melted into rapture. For most onlookers, first lady Michelle Obama opened the emotional floodgates late…
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News How Hillary Clinton Soothes Israel Backers at Convention — by Stressing Daylight With Barack Obama
PHILADELPHIA — For Israel, would a Hillary Clinton administration continue the tone set by Barack Obama? Or would she be a much warmer and closer friend to the Jewish state? It depends who and what you want to listen to at this Democratic convention On one end of the liberal spectrum, there was the burning…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman’s Twitter Hacked by Anonymous After Calling ‘Bernie-or-Bust’ Movement ‘Ridiculous’
Sarah Silverman’s Twitter account was hacked by the international hacktivist group, Anonymous, after the comedian called the “Bernie-or-Bust” supporters “ridiculous” at the Democratic National Convention on Monday. Less than 48 hours after Silverman had the blogosphere buzzing when she criticized Bernie Sanders supporters who refuse to vote for Hillary Clinton, a mysterious — now deleted…
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News Does Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Fall Signal Sea Change in Jewish Influence With Democrats?
PHILADELPHIA — A brief mention at a Jewish gathering on July 26 demonstrated how fast and dramatic the fall was for the Democrat Party’s top Jewish official. “I’d like to applaud Debbie Wasserman Schultz,” New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler said as he opened his speech at a Jewish roundtable discussion on the sidelines of the…
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Life I’ll Always Be With Bernie — But Here’s Why I’m Voting for Hillary
I’ve been a Bernie Sanders acolyte for years, and have watched in awe during the last 12 months as he took his rightful place as the progressive leader of our time. He showed up exactly when we needed him, taking the smashed mantle of the Occupy Wall Street movement and bringing millions of millennial voters…
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News Why Rabbi Julie Schonfeld Saw ‘Lot of Familiar Faces’ at Historic DNC Benediction
Rabbi Julie Schonfeld watched Bernie Sanders speak to a restive Philadelphia crowd on Monday night on the monitors backstage at the Wells Fargo Center. The executive vice president since 2009 of the Rabbinical Assembly, which represents Conservative rabbis, Schonfeld was slated to follow Sanders with a closing benediction to end the first night of the…
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