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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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News In Florida Congressional Primary, Sanders and Clinton Pick Proxy Fight
Despite an attempt to show party unity at the Democratic convention last month, the fight between Sen. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton continues to rage, this time in Florida. On Tuesday, Sanders sent out a fundraising email that said beating Rep. Wasserman Schultz in the Florida primary will send “a clear message about the power…
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Fast Forward Email Questioning Sanders’ Jewish Faith ‘Unacceptable,’ Wasserman Schultz Says
— Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who resigned as chairwoman of the Democratic National Convention over leaked emails, denounced an exchange between staffers that proposed questioning Bernie Sanders’ belief in God. “There was one very unfortunate, unacceptable, outrageous email exchange — that I was not a party to — that discussed using Senator Sanders’ faith, a…
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Opinion The Bernie Sanders Campaign as a Pivotal Episode in Jewish History
The summer issue of the British journal Jewish Quarterly has a long essay by yours truly, looking at the presidential campaign as a significant episode in Jewish history — primarily in terms of the Sanders campaign and the Trump phenomenon. JQ has a pretty stiff paywall, so they’ve generously given me permission to post my…
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