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Fast Forward Loss in Nevada Shows Bernie Sanders Still Has Uphill Fight
Bernie Sanders’ high-flying Democratic presidential campaign fell back to Earth on Saturday in Nevada. If the Vermont senator cannot quickly find a way to broaden his appeal to minorities and union members, last week’s 22-point rout of Clinton in New Hampshire could prove to be his campaign highlight. The race moves next week to South…
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Opinion We Need To Out Bernie Sanders as a Jew — for His Own Good
Bernie Sanders is marching through his presidential campaign with a giant target on his back: his Jewishness. Unless the Democratic candidate begins to more publicly admit his Jewish identity (even though he doesn’t practice Judaism as a religion), it will become a huge vulnerability. If nominated, he will leave the Democratic Party susceptible to ugly…
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The Schmooze @ElBloombito Is Back — With Riff on Bernie
@ElBloombito is back — and its talking about the Tribe. The Twitter parody account, which mocks former Mayor Bloomberg’s garbled Spanish, is now training its ire on fact that not one but two Jews might be in this year’s presidential election. Rachel Figueroa, the Jewish and Puerto Rican woman behind @ElBloombito, imagined how Bloomberg might…
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Culture When Bernie Sanders Walked Out of Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry Reading
When did Allen Ginsberg and Bernie Sanders first meet? What were the circumstances? Even people close to Sanders and Ginsberg do not agree on that history, explored in a recent piece in the Forward. But a photo that surfaced after the story went to press shows the poet, whose outlook reflected socialist ideas and the…
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Opinion How Jewish Would a Bernie Sanders Presidency Be?
Bernie Sanders is the first Jew to win a presidential primary in New Hampshire, or in any other state. If he should go on to secure the Democratic nomination, and if he should then win the general election, he will have upended conventional wisdom by bringing a long-shot, socialist campaign all the way from Brooklyn…
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The Schmooze Stop Everything! There’s a ‘Bernie Bae’ Music Video
Just when you thought Bernie Sanders couldn’t get any more popular, now there’s a music video elevating the Democratic-Socialist zaidy’s cool factor called “Bernie Bae.” , the media executive behind the 2008 music video “Crush on Obama” and “Still Got a Crush on Obama” has felt the Bern and just released the ode to Sanders…
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Culture That Time Allen Ginsberg Wrote a Socialist Poem — About Bernie Sanders
Last June, while digging through 50 boxes of archival material about Bernie Sanders’s four terms as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, a reporter for the British newspaper the Guardian found a poem by Allen Ginsberg. Written by hand on a 1986 visit to the city, “Burlington Snow” didn’t name Sanders, but he was clearly the…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Wins Endorsement of First-Ever Muslim Congressman
Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, has endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination. “This is not a ‘no you can’t’ campaign. This is not a diminish your dreams kind of campaign. This is a ‘believe in the possibilities we can do together’ kind of campaign,” Ellison, D-Minn., said of…
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