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Fast Forward With 30 Members, Jews Make Up 5.6% of New Congress
The Jewish population in America may be shrinking, but there’s one place where it’s stronger than ever – the U.S. Congress. The 115th Congress, sworn in Tuesday, will feature 30 Jewish lawmakers, up from 28 in the previous Congress, according to an analysis prepared by the Pew Research Center. That’s a full three minyans if…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Gilman, Upstate New York Republican Congressman, Dies at 94
— Benjamin Gilman, who served as a Republican congressman from New York for more than 30 years and who was a pro-Israel voice in Congress, has died. Gilman died on Saturday at a veterans hospital in New York at the age of 94. Gilman was first elected to Congress in 1972 and served 15 full…
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News Anti-Semitism Bill Will Not Pass Congress This Year
A controversial bill that would have defined some criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism will not make it through Congress this year. The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2016 would have instructed the U.S. Department of Education to consider a definition of anti-Semitism that includes “judg[ing] Israel by a double standard” when investigating federal discrimination claims. The…
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Fast Forward Anti-BDS Bills in Congress Would Impose Fines on Violators
WASHINGTON — Bipartisan bills targeting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel would impose fines on participating businesses but not criminal penalties, a co-sponsor of a Senate version said. Measures introduced in recent weeks in the U.S. Senate by Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Ben. Cardin, D-Md., and in the U.S. House of Representatives…
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Fast Forward 23 Jews Elected to House of Representatives — Up From 19
WASHINGTON — The Jewish contingent to the U.S. House of Representatives grew from 19 to 23 in Tuesday’s elections, doubling its Republican representation from one to two. Five Jews overall were newly elected to the House, while one Jewish congressman in Florida is retiring. The Senate Jewish contingent dropped from nine to eight. Three Democrats…
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Fast Forward New Jersey Congressional Candidates Feud Over Anti-Semitic Flyer
WASHINGTON — Candidates for Congress in a northern New Jersey district traded charges over an anti-Semitic flyer. The flyer, distributed last week at schools and train stations in New Jersey’s 5th congressional district, depicts the Democratic challenger, Josh Gottheimer, who is Jewish, with devil’s horns and a sinister goatee, alongside a pitchfork. Unsigned and using…
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News Jewish Congressional Candidate Battles Right-Wing Incumbent to Tossup
A fan of the Tea Party, Scott Garrett has managed to hang on for more than a decade in New Jersey’s 5th Congressional district, quite the achievement given his far-right stances on social issues. That might change in a few days, though, as the incumbent faces the fight of his life from Josh Gottheimer, a…
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Fast Forward Congress May Push for New Iran Sanctions After Election Day
The Republican leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives plan a vote as soon as mid-November on a 10-year reauthorization of the Iran Sanctions Act, congressional aides told Reuters on Tuesday. The act, which expires on Dec. 31, is one of the major pieces of unfinished business facing lawmakers when they return to Washington on…
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Culture Charlie Kirk kept a ‘Jewish Sabbath.’ What did he mean by that?
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Antisemitism Decoded Israel is being blamed for Charlie Kirk’s death. Here’s what that conspiracy theory says about the far right’s divide
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News Who was Horst Wessel, and why are people comparing Charlie Kirk to him?
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Fast Forward ‘Murdered for speaking truth’: Netanyahu and US Jewish leaders mourn Charlie Kirk
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Fast Forward ‘I will not be silenced’: Josh Shapiro invokes assassination attempt in address on rising hate violence
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