— Making his final campaign stop in the swing state of Florida before Tuesday’s election, Donald Trump said President Barack Obama was a “disaster” for Israel. “We will stand strong, we have to stand strong with the State of Israel in their fight against Islamic terrorists,” Trump told a rally Monday morning in Sarasota. “Barack Obama was…
Trump official on tomorrow’s turnout: “It’s like predicting your wife’s mood. You have no idea what you’re going to get until you get home” — Joshua Green (@JoshuaGreen) November 7, 2016 At Bloomberg, Joshua Green reports on the election in Florida’s Miami-Dade County, with a doozy of a quote from one “Brad Parscale, Trump’s digital…
Vice President Joe Biden delivered a clear message to Florida voters on Wednesday. “If you all do your job, we all get to go to bed early Tuesday night,” he told an audience at a pro-Clinton rally in Florida. And Jewish voters in the Sunshine State seem to be heeding Biden’s advice and utilizing the…
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. A (now disgraced) comedian once did a routine about Noah, who was incredulous about God warning him about the coming flood. Finally, famously, God asks Moses: “Noah, how long can you tread water?” I have been thinking about that question…
No one knows tikkun olam, or “repairing the world” like Bubba, right? Former President Bill Clinton invoked that spirit — and something much more scary — to urge Florida Jews to stick to their Democratic Party roots and vote en masse for Hillary Clinton. He connected Hillary Clinton’s call for a more inclusive country, embodied…
— Joe Lieberman is in South Florida doing the shul and seniors circuit for a Clinton, and he’s relishing the gig. “How does it feel? It feels like I’m home again,” Lieberman said Thursday in a phone interview, his voice relaxing into a remarkable confession for the former senator from Connecticut who set fire to…
— An American flag was desecrated with anti-Semitic messages and then thrown in front of a synagogue in Tampa, Florida. Messages on the flag, discovered on a wall in front of Congregation Schaarai Zedek in south Tampa, blamed Jews for media bias and immigration policies, WTSP, the Tampa-area CBS affiliate, reported. The flag was discovered…
Zeev Libskin and Murray Roter, both in their 80s, made their way through the packed South Florida Expo Center until finally getting as close as possible to the stage. Shortly after, Donald Trump took that stage, energizing the two Jewish retirees and thousands more with a 40-minute speech that featured a healthy dose of media…
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