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The Schmooze Men on New York’s West Side Look a lot Like Bernie Sanders — or Larry David
The harsh reality (or not so, depending on your predilections) is that if you’re a man of a certain age, you’re hair is white, you’re Jewish — and especially if you wear spectacles — someone may think you’re Bernie Sanders. Or a relative. Just ask Larry David. So The Forward decided to have a little…
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Opinion Should a Liberal Jewish Feminist Vote for Hillary — or Bernie?
If Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic nomination, she will be the first-ever female presidential candidate from a majority political party in United States history. If Bernie Sanders wins the Democratic nomination, he will be the first-ever Jewish presidential candidate from a major political party. What’s a liberal Jewish feminist voter to do? The question of…
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Fast Forward Times Backs Clinton, Says Sanders Lacks Her Policy Ideas, Experience
The New York Times’s editorial board endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John Kasich as they seek to become their parties’ nominees in the U.S. presidential election, calling Clinton one of the most “deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history.” Clinton, a front-runner facing a strong challenge from Senator Bernie Sanders, and Kasich, who has…
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Opinion Could Michael Bloomberg Elbow Out Bernie Sanders To Become First Jewish President?
Just when you thought the 2016 presidential race couldn’t get any weirder, it got weirder. On January 23, associates of New York’s billionaire ex-mayor Michael Bloomberg let it be known that he’s exploring a possible third-party White House bid. This isn’t Bloomberg’s first presidential exploration. It’s his third. His indecision could earn him the label…
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Opinion Bernie Sanders Rises — and the Ghost of Saul Alinsky Will Surely Follow
Decades before the term was coined, community organizer Saul Alinsky was already exploiting the advantages of “intersectionality,” the contemporary buzzword of social protest. Alinsky, once described by conservative thinker William F. Buckley as “close to an organizational genius,” united groups of underprivileged minorities with diverse grievances in mid-20th century Chicago to form a protest bloc…
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Fast Forward 10% of Americans Less Likely to Vote for Jewish Candidate
Being an evangelical Christian candidate for president is twice as great a liability as being a Jewish candidate, according to a new poll. The Pew Research Center survey on faith in the 2016 presidential campaign found that only a small percentage of Americans are less likely to vote for a presidential candidate because he is…
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The Schmooze That Time Bernie Sanders Tried to Sing ‘This Land Is Your Land’
If you’ve got the Bern real bad and Bernie Sanders’s thick Brooklyn accent on your TV screen is just not enough to satiate you, we have good news for you. You can download Sanders’s 1987 folk album and listen to his non-singing version of “This Land is Your Land” wherever you go. That’s right. The…
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Opinion Don’t Worry, Bernie — Being Jewish Won’t Hurt You in Iowa
As one comedian online, if Hillary Clinton loses the Iowa caucus February 1 to an underdog, it will be the most shocking thing that’s happened — since it happened eight years ago. In 2008, the pundit class was united in the opinion that Clinton was clearly next in line for the Democratic nomination and that…
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