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News Mondaire Jones wants progressives, Jewish voters to boost his bid for Brooklyn House seat
Jones defended his alliance with candidate Yuh-Line Niou against frontrunner Dan Goldman. Niou has associated herself with BDS supporters
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News Sean Patrick Maloney locks in Jewish support in competitive reelection bid for upstate New York seat
‘All those people who want to weaken Israel are not supporting me,’ the incumbent Democrat said in an interview
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News Nadler and Maloney trade barbs at Jewish forum
The veteran Democratic incumbents take gloves off as primary approaches to fend off 'generational change' campaign of newcomer Suraj Patel
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Opinion What one hotly watched Manhattan race tells us about New York’s Jewish voters
If supporting Israel has become a wedge issue, NY-12's Democratic candidates seem not to have gotten the memo
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Fast Forward Anti-Israel comedian slated to appear at fundraiser for NY congressional candidate
Yuh-Line Niou has sparked ire for supporting BDS. Now, she is being helped by a Palestinian comic who denounces Israel as ‘a terrorist state’ and ‘worse’ than apartheid
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News In crowded race for Congress, Dan Goldman makes the Jewish case for Brooklyn seat
Goldman is one of four Jewish candidates running in the Aug. 23 primary for the open seat once represented by veteran Rep. Jerry Nadler
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Fast Forward Leading candidate for Congress invokes Jewish grandfather’s Holocaust murder
Becca Balint, a progressive candidate in the race for Vermont’s sole House seat, attributed her public service to growing up in a family affected by the Holocaust
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Fast Forward Lawmaker who withdrew endorsement from pro-BDS candidate backs Jewish contender for Brooklyn seat
NY Assemblymember Brian Cunningham endorsed Dan Goldman, former lead counsel for the House Democrats during Trump’s impeachment, in crowded race for Congress
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