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News How Old-Fashioned Politicking Swung New York Jewish Vote — Not Israel Debate
Did Bernie Sanders’s harsh criticism of Israel cost him the New York Jewish vote? Or perhaps the turmoil over his firing of his Jewish outreach director on the eve of the vote? Neither, say campaign insiders. It was Hillary Clinton skillfully playing good old-fashioned politics, the kind in which voters align with candidates they know…
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News Hillary Clinton Looks Ahead After New York Sweep — Math Starts To Catch Up With Bernie
Hillary Clinton took a huge step toward locking down the Democratic nomination once and for all with a decisive victory over Bernie Sanders in the New York primary — a win that appears to have been boosted by strong backing from Jewish voters. Clinton, for the first time since the campaign kicked off a year…
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Opinion This Passover, We’re Joining Simone Zimmerman To Fight for Freedom for All
When the American Jewish establishment went after Simone Zimmerman, Bernie Sanders’s recent pick as his liaison to the Jewish community and a longtime social justice activist and organizer, it made a clear statement to an entire generation of young Jews: If you dare to depart from our position on Israel, you are not welcome in…
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Opinion What Campaign Donor Lists Tell Us About Changing Nature of Jewish Political Power
Who speaks for the Jews? It’s an age-old question that’s often asked by partisans of every Jewish cause. What we usually mean is: Who pleads the Jewish case in the halls of decision-making? And no less important: Who decides what is the Jewish agenda? This campaign season we need to ask another question that sounds…
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Culture How My 10-Year-Old Daughter Solved Clinton vs. Sanders Dilemma
I had been on the fence about who I’d support in the Democratic primary and it sounded like a good pair of field trips — take my 5th grade daughter to one Bernie Sanders event and one Hillary Clinton event and, on the basis of her reactions, decide who I’d vote for. Whitney Houston may…
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Life Bernie or Hillary? A Leftist Feminist Jewess Agonizes
I’m not like Ivanka Trump, who takes such pride in being a registered Independent voter who chooses her candidate based on the “person, not the party,” that she ended up not being able to vote for anyone, much less her own father, in the New York primary. For one thing, I’m a Democrat who proudly…
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News As Democrats Push Boundaries of Israel Debate, J Street Exults — and Worries
Washington – The contentious exchange over Israel between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders during their April 14 Brooklyn debate may have caused some in the Democratic Party to cringe, but for J Street, the dovish pro-Israel lobby, it was a cause for celebration. For the left-leaning lobby, Sanders’ choice to criticize Israel’s actions during the…
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Fast Forward How New York Dogfight Finally Put the Jewish in Bernie Sanders
(JTA) — Bernie Sanders has undeniably earned a place in history as “the first Jewish presidential candidate of a major party to win state nominating contests.” And until recently, that seemed like it would more or less sum up of his Jewish legacy as a candidate. For most of the campaign, Sanders had seemed to…
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