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Josh Shapiro, Pesnnsylvania’s Jewish attorney general and a Democrat, announced Wednesday the endorsements of 10 prominent Republicans, demonstrating crossover appeal to his bid to become the state’s governor in the fall. The former and current Republican state officials called Doug Mastriano, the GOP nominee for governor, “extreme” and “dangerous.” Mastriano, a far-right state representative, has…
Antonio Delgado, the newly-appointed lieutenant governor of New York, said Tuesday that his faith and the power of love are key to his success, and that his wife’s Jewish background had helped shape some of his political views. In an exclusive joint interview with him and his wife, Lacey Schwartz Delgado, an award-winning filmmaker, Delgado…
Israel is headed into its fifth election in three years after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced Monday night — a year and a week after he took office — that his coalition had finally collapsed and he was dissolving the Knesset. Bennett’s premiership has been in trouble since he lost his Parliamentary majority in April,…
An independent businessman running for president of Colombia attempted to clarify his past praise of Adolf Hitler ahead of the runoff election Sunday, by saying he confused the Nazi leader with Nobel physicist Albert Einstein. Rodolfo Hernández, a 77-year-old TikTok star, is competing with Gustavo Petro, a former rebel and a leftist politician who received…
Douglas Mastriano, the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, implied last week that the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was a false flag operation similar to the Reichstag fire in 1933 that the Nazis used as justification to suspend civil liberties and go after political enemies. Mastriano has in the past invoked Nazi-era…
When Summer Lee appeared to edge out Steve Irwin in the Democratic primary of a blue Pittsburgh district last month, J Street came out swinging at their rival pro-Israel group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which spent $2.8 million to defeat the more left-leaning Lee. “We took on AIPAC’s millions and won,” Laura Birnbaum,…
