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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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Fast Forward Pope Francis Insists Meeting With Bernie Sanders Wasn’t ‘Political’
Pope Francis said on Saturday that his meeting with Bernie Sanders, contesting the Democratic candidacy for the U.S. Presidency, was not meddling in politics and that anyone who thought otherwise should “look for a psychiatrist.” Sanders and the pope met briefly on Saturday morning at the Vatican guest house where Francis lives and where Sanders…
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The Schmooze Harvey Weinstein on Bernie: ‘We Won’t Get Fooled Again’
Harvey Weinstein had a few choice words about Bernie Sanders while on a promotion stop on the morning news show “CBS This Morning” for his upcoming movie, “Sing Street.” Asked about his thoughts on Thursday night’s Democratic debate, Weinstein said his family members have “all types” of political views, his mother started out as a…
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