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The Schmooze The Real Winner in New Hampshire? ‘Bernie Sandwiches’
(JTA) – In the scramble to announce Bernie Sanders’ victory in the New Hampshire Democratic primary Tuesday night, MSNBC host Chris Hayes gave the Internet one of the Jewiest food memes since Hillary Clinton’s gefilte fish “scandal.” and now I am picturing a Bernie Sandwich. It’s weird. https://t.co/uxv5wYmuG8 — Amanda Wills (@AmandaWills) February 10, 2016…
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Opinion Did Bernie Sanders Just Grab Jewish Crown in New Hampshire?
(JTA) — Maybe now that Bernie Sanders has become the first Jewish candidate to win a presidential primary he’ll start getting the Joe Lieberman treatment. Back in 2000, Al Gore’s decision to tap Lieberman as his running mate set off what felt like a months-long national bar mitzvah bash. But the party — and all the…
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Life The Bullying Tactics of Hillary Clinton and the Group-Think Feminists
First the radical feminists came for the conservative women, but you do not speak up because you aren’t conservative. Then they came for the pro-life women, but you did not speak up because you aren’t pro-life. And now they’re coming for the rest of you non-conformists. Welcome to purgatory. Over the years I’ve heard this…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Wins Dixville Notch
Bernie Sanders won the vote in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, the first balloting in the state holding the country’s first primary. The town has nine registered voters, and the four Democrats went for Sanders, an Independent U.S. senator from neighboring Vermont. Hillary Clinton didn’t get a single vote. On the Republican side, Ohio Gov. John…
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Opinion Does God Still Matter on the Campaign Trail — Even When Young Voters Rebel?
The two Republican candidates with the most momentum going into the New Hampshire primary are eager to bring God with them on the campaign trail. There’s Ted Cruz, who is the son of an evangelical preacher and often sounds like one himself, opening his victory speech in Iowa with “To God Be the Glory!” and…
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Opinion Bernie Sanders Should Embrace His Kibbutz Past — Not Shrink From It
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders must have cringed when the name of his mystery kibbutz finally came to light last week. Almost as soon as the world found out where he had volunteered after finishing his undergraduate degree in 1963, blogs started up the spin machine with the intent of tagging Sanders as a “Marxist…
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News Does Bernie Sanders Still Champion Values of His Israeli Kibbutz?
(JTA) — Every morning, Bernie Sanders would wake up at 4:10 a.m. to pick apples and pears. Leaving the cabin he shared with a few other American college student volunteers, Sanders would have a quick bite of bread before heading out to the orchard. After 2 1/2 hours of work, he and the other 20 or…
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Opinion The Ugly ‘SNL’ Joke You Missed While Chuckling at ‘Bernie Sanderswitzky’
This one went by so fast that most of us seem to have missed it. This past weekend’s Saturday Night Live had not one but two Jewish jokes. One was moderately funny, notable mainly for the fact that it came from the mouth of Senator Bernie Sanders, during a back-and-forth with his doppelganger Larry David….
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