PHILADELPHIA — A brief mention at a Jewish gathering on July 26 demonstrated how fast and dramatic the fall was for the Democrat Party’s top Jewish official. “I’d like to applaud Debbie Wasserman Schultz,” New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler said as he opened his speech at a Jewish roundtable discussion on the sidelines of the…
Though food options abound at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Mordy Siegal is committed to providing convenient kosher food to the hungry masses. At the Wells Fargo Center, Kosher Grill is humming. Proprietor Mordy Siegal of Chicago said the stand, offering Polish sausages, hot dogs and other meat entrees, fed 10% of the entire…
“Deal us in,” told the audience at the Democratic National Convention after asking whether they wanted the paid family leave, access to reproductive care and equal pay for equal work that Hillary Clinton had promised. Together with fellow actress America Ferrera, Dunham gave a five-minute speech on why the two support Clinton as a candidate…
WikiLeaks is under fire for what some are calling anti-Semitic Tweet in response to online criticism of its publication of tens of thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee. “Tribalist symbol for establishment climbers? Most of our critics have 3 (((brackets around their names))) & have black-rim glasses. Bizarre,” the official WikiLeaks Twitter…
Michelle Obama absolutely blew the nation away with her front-and-center speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night. In a convention fraught with stressors like the Debbie Wasserman Schultz fiasco and lingering Bernie supporters in the throes of their histrionics, FLOTUS’s speech offered some much-needed unifying sentiments that the vast majority of people tuning…
Rabbi Julie Schonfeld watched Bernie Sanders speak to a restive Philadelphia crowd on Monday night on the monitors backstage at the Wells Fargo Center. The executive vice president since 2009 of the Rabbinical Assembly, which represents Conservative rabbis, Schonfeld was slated to follow Sanders with a closing benediction to end the first night of the…
Bernie Sanders doesn’t try to be your cute Jewish grandpa, he just is. Last night, as Sanders waited for his big speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, the cameras caught the former presidential candidate in the audience dropping his speech. That moment was adorable, but it was only a matter of time before…
Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee over an email smear scandal — throwing the party into disarray just 24 hours before it convenes in Philadelphia today for its national convention. The Jewish Florida congresswoman, a onetime rising star in Democratic politics, was pushed out following a Wikileaks…
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