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Culture At 92Y, a quiet coda to an “exhausting” election season
Half an hour before sunrise on Election Day, New York City’s 92nd Street Y opened its doors to voters. About 60 people had already gathered outside, presumably hoping to beat the crowds. “People are very excited and voting like their lives depend on it,” said Aristotle Rosario, 44, one of the poll workers stationed outside…
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News It’s Election Day in the Goldene Medina: Here’s how we’re voting, praying, laughing
It’s Election Day in the Goldene Medina, the Golden Land dreamed of, embraced and railed against — often, simultaneously — by Jewish Americans. Jews have been here for all the elections, and every election must have felt as important as this one. But we can acknowledge that and also know that this one is different….
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Community California Proposition 14 is about pikuach nefesh — here’s why
Only two decades ago, stem cell therapy was highly regulated in the United States and other countries — but it was well underway in Hadassah Hospital’s labs in Jerusalem. Never would we have imagined that the US expansion of one of the key clinical trials conducted in our labs in Israel would be later funded…
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Community Why this Florida rabbi urges every Jew to vote
With just a few days until Election Day, I feel a call as a private citizen and rabbi to describe the values that implore me to vote as I will. I do not believe that clergy should tell people how to vote, but I do believe in clergy’s responsibility to point out their guiding values….
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The Schmooze Jeff Goldblum and the ‘Saturday Night Seder’ crew really want young Jews to vote
For the past several months, actress Beanie Feldstein has been hunkering down with her parents and phonebanking up a storm. Songwriter Hannah Friedman has been composing ditties at the behest of the Biden campaign. “Queer Eye” star Tan France, when he’s not cyber-stalking Beanie Feldstein, has been telling everyone he knows to vote. All three…
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Community When conversations with friends can have real power
It can often feel pointless to talk about politics with someone who disagrees with you; it can lead to a heated argument in which neither side budges. Especially with friends and family, many people opt to avoid the conversation to protect the relationship. But those conversations are the most impactful. Below, Jonah Sanderson, a rabbinic…
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Fast Forward Poll finds American Jews set to vote overwhelmingly for Joe Biden
(JTA) — Jewish voters are set to vote 75% to 22% for Joe Biden, according to a poll by the American Jewish Committee. The poll released Monday shows the Democratic nominee expanding his support among Jewish voters from a 67-30 split in a poll last month and it includes other signs that President Donald Trump…
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Fast Forward Biden Leads Trump 67-30 among Jewish voters
(JTA) — A survey of Jewish voters shows 67 percent plan to vote for Joe Biden in November and 30 percent plan to vote for Donald Trump. The numbers in the survey released Monday by the Jewish Electorate Institute broke the same way when voters were asked about President Trump’s performance: 67 percent said they…
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