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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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Opinion Is Bernie Sanders Getting Anti-Semitic Treatment?
When national radio host Diane Rehm the democratic socialist senator from Vermont and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders about his non-existent Israeli citizenship, many of his fellow Jews could only hear one thing: an accusation of dual loyalties. Rehm, usually a diligent journalist, was prompted to ask about this alleged dual citizenship by a years-old, dubious,…
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Opinion How Bernie Sanders Is Using Bread-and-Butter Pitch To Win Over Democrats
During the six years that Democrats controlled the Senate between 2007 and 2013, the range of Democratic opinion could fairly be described as the distance between two white-haired Jewish gentlemen from New England, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, neither one a Democrat. Both were elected as Independents in 2006 but caucused…
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News Is Bernie Sanders a Lefty on Everything Except for Israel?
The scene at the town hall in the village of Cabot, Vermont last summer was chaotic: First came a question about Israel’s ongoing bombings in Gaza; then an interruption from audience members angry at Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. Another interruption followed. And then, onstage, Senator Bernie Sanders, sleeves rolled to his elbows, shouted at…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Demand NPR Apology Over Bernie Sanders ‘Israeli’ Question
Jewish groups demanded an apology from radio host Diane Rehm for saying Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has dual Israeli-American citizenship. “Such a statement is not only factually incorrect, but has no place in such an interview,” the Anti-Defamation League’s national director, Abraham Foxman, said in a letter Wednesday to National Public Radio. “It is deeply…
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Opinion Why Does Diane Rehm Think Bernie Sanders Is Israeli?
No, Bernie Sanders does not hold Israeli citizenship. That much was apparent to all but a few internet oddballs. Or so we all thought till this morning, when nationally syndicated NPR host Diane Rehm quizzed the Jewish Democratic presidential candidate about the topic. In an interview on The Diane Rehm Show today, Rehm stated, wrongly,…
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