A clutch of polls on and around Election 2020 indicate that Jewish support for Democratic candidates is still stable. “They’re not really different numbers,” said Professor Leonard Saxe, director of the Steinhardt Social Research Institute at Brandeis University. “They are in line with the more-or-less 70-30 split between Democrats and Republicans that has been in…
Lots of people want to talk to Rochelle Tan. The 83-year-old votes in Palm Beach County, Fla., a swing region in a swing state that could help decide who wins today’s presidential election. The Democratic and Republican campaigns have been dialing her number all fall. “When I see who’s calling, I don’t even bother answering,”…
When Rochelle Bosley Larson cruises the lanes of The Villages, the nation’s largest retirement community, in her golf cart festooned with a large “Biden 2020” flag, she elicits some happy honks, but even more often, a slew of curses and names she wouldn’t want her grandchildren to hear. As newcomers, she and her husband had…
Weeks after voting to rehire a principal who told a parent he “can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event,” a Florida school board has reversed course. The Palm Beach County School Board voted a year ago to fire William Latson, who had been removed from his post after the 2018 comments came to…
For the last six weeks, Phillip Richmond’s schedule has been as follows: An early morning workout at the gym, breakfast while catching up on the news, then three hours of phone banking for the Republican Jewish Coalition to support the re-election of President Donald Trump. “After about three hours your voice gets tired,” Richmond explained….
In one advertisement, comic book speech bubbles pop on screen as a slick salesman delivers a sarcastic pitch for Joe Biden and the Democrats over upbeat music. “This election only! A special offer,” he says. “Elect Joe Biden — get all his far-left friends too.” The spot, sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition and running…
In Boca Raton, Fla., an Orthodox youth group is providing high school students with a new Holocaust education program in response to a school district’s rehiring of William Latson, an administrator accused of Holocaust denial. “Southern NCSY is determined not to allow Holocaust denial to become acceptable,” said the group, the youth outreach arm of…
By all accounts, the transition from in-person to virtual High Holiday services because of the COVID-19 pandemic was a huge success. Record numbers of people viewed Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services, albeit online. Synagogues worked tirelessly to make liturgy and music appealing and catchy in what was for many a new medium. While donations…
100% of profits support our journalism
