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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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Opinion How Hillary’s Speech Patterns Reveal Biggest Advantage Over Bernie
Hillary Clinton is the most thoughtful candidate, the most “talkative,” “optimistic” and “positive.” That’s according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal — a newspaper that is not exactly a fan of Clinton. Offering a textual analysis of the article concluded that Clinton’s language “indicated more cognitive processing, rather than self-certainty, a signal…
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The Schmooze ‘Seinfeld’ Crew Takes Aim at Bernie’s ‘Yada Yada Yada’ Plan on ‘SNL’
It was a Jewish ‘Seinfeld’ reunion on ‘Saturday Night Live’ — but who got the most laughs out of Bernie Sanders’s debate showdown with Hillary Clinton? Julia Louis-Dreyfus hosted the show and shared the stage with — who else? — Larry David as they took comic pot shots at both the Democratic candidates. David mocked…
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News Is Simone Zimmerman an ‘Anti-Israel’ Martyr — or Poster Child for Bernie Sanders Bungling?
The hashtag #IStandWithSimone took off shortly after the Sanders campaign abruptly suspended its Jewish outreach coordinator April 13. Within hours, hundreds of tweets were posted in support of Simone Zimmerman, who had been hired only days earlier; she had immediately created an uproar when an old Facebook post surfaced in which she used vulgarity directed…
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Opinion Why Simone Zimmerman and Bernie Sanders Are Still on Same Side on Israel — Suspension or No
Just weeks after thousands of Israel advocates applauded Donald Trump at AIPAC, some of the same voices attempted a coordinated campaign to force Bernie Sanders to back off from his progressive positions on Israel before a Brooklyn debate. Sanders refused to back down in the debate. In order to solve the Mideast conflict, he argued,…
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News Rabbi Andy Bachman Bounced From Bernie Sanders Interfaith Roundtable
Rabbi Sara Luria wasn’t sure why she was called to participate in a panel discussion on faith and social justice with Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders just 45 minutes before it was to start. Turns out she was a last-minute substitute for Rabbi Andy Bachman, who was scheduled to participate in the Saturday-night Sanders campaign…
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Opinion Why I’m for Hillary (and Not for Him)
I am for Hillary Clinton. She represents some of my most basic beliefs about this country and the world in general. She has a view of an inclusive society in which all people – children in particular – have a chance. At the same time she believes in a strong America that can make a…
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Opinion Will Bernie Sanders’s Debate Criticism End Grip of Israel Lobby — or Be a Footnote in History?
University of Wisconsin Professors Vernon Allen and John Levine conducted a series of experiments in the late 1960s to examine psychologist Solomon Asch’s theories about conformity and the influence of social forces on individual opinions. They found that even one dissenter from supposedly unanimous views enables others to express their opinions more freely. Liberals and…
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