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Life Yet Another White Guy in a Suit?
As soon as Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced Rep. Paul Ryan as his pick for vice president, critics pounced on the all-too-familiar spectacle of two white men in suits campaigning side by side. The stark contrast to 2008’s groundbreaking race — a black nominee! a female GOP veep nominee! — stood out to women’s…
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News Abe George Seeks To Upend Hynes
Abe George seems an unlikely roadblock in Charles Hynes’s drive to a seventh term as Brooklyn’s district attorney. George, 33, has no heavy-hitting political backers, no name recognition and, so far, very little campaign money. He is the son of Indian immigrants in a city where no South Asian has ever won citywide or boroughwide…
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Opinion Going Green With Jill Stein
The Green Party is set to choose a Jewish doctor as its presidential candidate. Jill Stein, 52, will officially receive the third party nomination at a convention this weekend. The Lexington, Mass., resident has no chance of beating Republican Mitt Romney or Democrat Barack Obama at the polls this November. But that doesn’t mean she…
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Fast Forward Roseanne Barr Run Nixed by Green Party
Roseanne Barr, the Emmy-winning comedienne, Kabbalist, and self-proclaimed “People-ist” will not be appearing on the Green Party’s ballot this coming election, ABC News reports. Jill Stein, a Harvard-trained physician and the environmentalist party’s presidential hopeful, announced today that her vice presidential partner will be the relatively unknown anti-poverty activist Cheri Honkala. Barr, best known for…
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Opinion The Shul Gap
Nearly 90% of Jews who never attend synagogue voted Democratic in 2008, according to a new analysis of Jewish voting patterns out this week. That’s in sharp contrast to the less than 65% of Jews who attend synagogue at least weekly who voted Democratic that year. Sponsored by a non-partisan group called The Solomon Project,…
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News Ed Koch Still Wants To Matter
It was primary night, and Ed Koch was eating mussels. The 87-year-old former mayor had a corner table at an Italian restaurant on the West Side of Manhattan. At his elbow was John LoCicero, his political advisor since the 1960s. LoCicero was eating mussels, too. Primary polls were still open for another hour, but LoCicero,…
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Israel News Israeli Politicians Court American Donors
For wealthy Americans these days, appeals for political contributions from candidates, party committees and now from super PACs seem never-ending. But for wealthy American Jews involved with Israel, there is, increasingly, yet one more hand outstretched, from abroad, seeking political largesse. Israeli candidates, vying for seats in the Knesset, the country’s parliament, have found a…
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Opinion Biggest Election Issue? Planet’s Survival
Many smart folks I know are having trouble deciding how they’re going to vote this November. They list the pros and cons on each side and find the uncertainties canceling each other out. How do we keep Iran from going nuclear? Will the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade? Whom do you trust to protect…
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