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Culture How My Hebrew School Teacher Taught Me Who To Vote For on Election Day
My kindergarten teacher at Yeshiva Central Queens was not modern—Mora Ruth had obvious favorites, stared at us while we ate lunch, called us made-up names, and totally let us do gross things like sniff each other’s tushies. I loved her. The only thing I didn’t like about Kindergarten, back in 1969, was that if you…
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Fast Forward Haredi Newspaper Der Yid (Sort Of) Endorses Hillary Clinton
After three Jewish newspapers came out to endorse Donald Trump this week, Hillary Clinton got a pre-Shabbat declaration of support in the pages of Der Yid, a Brooklyn weekly that serves the Satmar Hasidic community. “Throughout the years that Secretary Clinton served as New York’s Senator, and then as Secretary of State, she was sympathetic…
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Life WATCH (NSFW): Rachel Bloom and an All-Star Cast Sing an Urgent Reminder: Vote!
Did you have plans for Tuesday? Do they include… voting? They should! In a new Funny or Die video, Rachel Bloom of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend fame, along with a number of people who also look famous, use their platform to remind us all to vote. For Hillary Clinton. HOLY SH*T (You’ve Got To Vote) from Funny…
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The Schmooze WATCH: These Women Urge Ivanka to ‘Dump Trump’ in Parody Video
The women over at CollegeHumor have some advice for Ivanka Trump — ditch the presidential campaign and get away from her father Donald Trump. “Hi Ivanka, Can we have a minute, like without your dad and brothers?” the parody video starts. “Donald, if you’re watching, it’s just going to be a bunch of ladies talking…
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Fast Forward Conservative Movement Rabbis Circulate Pre-Election Prayer
— The international association of Conservative rabbis released a prayer “in anticipation of a U.S. election.” The prayer, which calls on readers to consider “all that is at stake in this election,” was written by the Rabbinical Assembly’s executive vice president, Rabbi Julie Schonfeld. “Help us to recognize the gift of our vibrant and open…
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Fast Forward Americans Voting From Israel Sour on Trump, According to Exit Poll
JERUSALEM — More Americans in Israel voted for Donald Trump than for Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, but the number of Republican votes plummeted from four years ago, according to a poll released Thursday. Trump, the Republican candidate, received 49 percent of the vote, and Clinton, the Democrat, had 44 percent, the survey found. Keevoon…
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Fast Forward Jewish Billionaire Haim Saban Is Clinton’s Favorite Donor
Bill and Hillary Clinton have cultivated friendships with many deep-pocketed donors over their decades in politics. But a Friday report in Politico confirms what we already knew — no one quite matches Haim Saban, the Israel-American owner of Univision. Saban, with an estimated fortune of $3.6 billion, has lavished his largesse on the power couple….
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Opinion Beyond Trump and Clinton, it’s Time to Pray for Our Country. Here’s How.
I suspect you are feeling the way I am: anxious about the election, concerned about what it will trigger, confused about the feelings and motivations of about half the people in this country, and yearning for a way to knit ourselves together again, to reclaim the sense that we are Americans, and not warring, disparate…
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