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News Bernie Sanders Opens Up About Jewish Upbringing — at Last
(JTA) — I interviewed Bernie Sanders a couple years ago, when word first circulated that the Vermont senator might seek the presidency. Though he knew about JTA going in — and must have known questions about his Jewish background were coming — he didn’t want to get into it. I wrote at the time: “But…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Surges in California Poll
Hillary Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has seen a dramatic drop in support among likely California primary voters since May as rival Bernie Sanders has surged, a Field Poll released on Wednesday shows. Less than half of likely Democratic voters in the June 2016 presidential primary in California, 47 percent, now say…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Raises $26M as Insurgent Campaign Picks Up Steam
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont raised $26 million over the last three months as he wages a populist challenge to become the Democratic presidential nominee, MSNBC television reported on Thursday, citing a spokesperson with his campaign. That is up from $24 million estimate cited by the New York Times on Wednesday, putting Sanders closer to…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Brings Liberal Message to Evangelicals on Rosh Hashanah
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders brought his liberal message to evangelical stronghold Liberty University, delivering an impassioned moral plea for economic equality. Speaking on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish senator told a crowd of conservative Christians that he made no apologies for his liberal social views. “I understand that issues such as…
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Fast Forward Billionaires for Bernie? Warren Buffett Praises Sanders Despite Backing Hillary
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Tuesday praised the presidential campaign of self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders, even though Buffett said he still backs Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. “I think we all have lessons to learn from him (Sanders),” Buffett said in an interview with Reuters. “There are very few candidates that have – not just this…
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News My Quixotic Hunt for Bernie Sanders’ Kibbutz
It’s a constant of virtually every profile written about Bernie Sanders: Shortly after college, the Vermont senator now running for president volunteered at an Israeli kibbutz. Depending on the writer, this detail might speak to Sanders’s Jewish identity, his stance on Israel, or his socialist values. Were any or all of these honed in the…
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Opinion Are Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump Flip Sides of Same Populist Coin?
Bernie Sanders insists he’s nothing like his fellow insurgent-outsider, Donald Trump. He’s half right. On one hand, it may be true that Sanders differs from Trump, as he told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on August 31, in that he avoids “demagoguery” and “racist attacks” and tries instead to “talk about the reality facing the American people.”…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Pulls Ahead of Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders surpassed front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton as the leading Democratic presidential candidate in a poll of New Hampshire voters. Sanders, who is Jewish, led Clinton 44-37 percent among the 442 likely Democratic primary voters who responded in the Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll released Wednesday. It was the first survey of voters…
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