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Opinion Ghost of Golda Meir Looms Large Over Wisconsin Primary — and Joe McCarthy’s Too
A victory in Tuesday’s Wisconsin primaries is crucial for candidate Bernie Sanders politically, but it would also be poetic justice, historically, for the veteran Jewish socialist. Wisconsin has an illustrious socialist past, including the election of three mayors in Milwaukee as well as the first socialist member of Congress, Victor Berger, an Austrian born Jew….
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Opinion How Bernie Sanders Reveals Our Own Jewish Identity Anxiety
This election cycle, a curious side-story has developed around the question of Bernie Sanders’s Jewish identity. What of Jew is he? What’s he like at Kiddush? What’d he do at that kibbutz? Why doesn’t he talk more about being Jewish? Why doesn’t he talk more about Yiddish socialism? Should we force him to be more…
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Opinion How an Anti-Zionist’s Embrace of Bernie Was a Gift to Bibi — and Hillary
In a certain sense, the cover story of this week’s Village Voice, titled “The Heretic” (subheading: “In a Zionist Age, the Bern Kicks It Old Shul”), represents a milestone victory for Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s also, to a lesser degree, a gift to Hillary Clinton. For the Israeli leader, the article represents a wholehearted embrace, in…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Walks Back Comparison of Donald Trump to Hitler
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders asserted in an interview that he did not compare Donald Trump to Hitler when he warned of a “lunatic …. stirring up racial hatred” during a campaign rally over the weekend in Wisconsin. “No, I did not compare Trump to Hitler,” Sanders told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week. “But…
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Fast Forward Why Bernie Sanders’s Social Media Guru Tweets With Brooklyn Accent
Last August, Bernie Sanders sat on a Craigslist-bought beige couch in his Washington office plotting to steal the social media spotlight from 10 Republicans taking the stage for the first televised debate of the 2016 presidential campaign. Next to the Democratic presidential candidate, 74, sat 27-year-old Hector Sigala, his digital media director. For the next…
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Fast Forward Battle for New York Heats Up With Bronx Bernie and Harlem Hillary
A day after Hillary Clinton rallied the faithful in Harlem, her Democratic primary opponent Bernie Sanders rocked the Bronx Thursday. And the two New Yorkers had some hardcore New Yorkers making the case for them. Clinton had her former Senate colleague and fellow Dem, Sen. Chuck Schumer. Sanders rolled out two Hollywood heavy hitters —…
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News To Support Bernie, ‘Ben & Jerry’ Give the Masses Free Ice Cream
Bernie Sanders believes in a free college degree — and free ice cream. At a Sanders campaign event in Union Square Thursday, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, founders of the Vermont-based ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s, organized the event and spoke to the large crowd of mostly college students about their love for the…
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The Schmooze Ben & Jerry’s Giving Out Free ‘Bernie’s Yearning’ in NYC
Ben & Jerry’s are giving out free “Bernie’s Yearning,” their Bernie Sanders themed ice-cream at Union Square this afternoon, starting at 5 PM EST. Ben Cohen, the founder of the Vermont ice cream chain tweeted the following to advertise the event. Jerry & I are headed to #NYC — if you’ve been waiting to try…
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