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Breaking News Jersey Special Senate Vote Gets Court Green Light
New Jersey’s special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Frank Lautenberg will go ahead this year as scheduled, after the state Supreme Court declined on Thursday to hear a legal challenge. Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, ordered a special primary election on Aug. 13 and a special general…
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Breaking News New Jersey Court Hears Challenge to Frank Lautenberg Senate Seat Vote
New Jersey’s State Supreme Court said it would hear a challenge to Governor Chris Christie’s plan to hold a special election in October to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Senator Frank Lautenberg. The state’s highest court said a group of Democrats have until Monday to file a motion seeking…
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News Frank Lautenberg, Proud Jew Who Didn’t Want To Be a ‘Jewish Senator’
Frank Lautenberg had not cast a vote in nearly two months when aides pushed his wheelchair onto the floor of the U.S. Senate in mid-April. Lautenberg, then 89, was clearly in ill health. On Capitol Hill that day, Democrats were fighting to save gun control bills drafted after last December’s elementary school shooting in Newtown,…
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Breaking News Jewishly-Connected Cory Booker To Run For Frank Lautenberg’s Open Senate Seat
Newark mayor Cory Booker announced on Saturday that he will run for the United States Senate seat left open after senator Frank Lautenberg died on Monday. Recently, the Forward profiled Booker and highlighted his connection to Judaism. Booker has courted several high-profile Jewish donors in preparation for a Senate run and is a devoted scholar…
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News Cory Booker, Eying N.J. Senate Run, Banks on Long and Deep Jewish Ties
While some Jews struggle to make it through one Passover Seder each year, Cory Booker, Newark, N.J.’s African-American mayor, traditionally attends at least two. It’s a holiday he equates with Thanksgiving, cherishing the time spent telling stories and teaching lessons. The only tradition he doesn’t approve of is the cuisine. “The bread of affliction is…
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News Frank Lautenberg Remembered by Scores of Dignitaries at New York Funeral
U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg, whose death has sparked a battle over his seat in the Senate, was remembered at his funeral on Wednesday as a tenacious fighter who battled tirelessly for the causes he championed. Vice President Joe Biden eulogized Lautenberg, a fellow Democrat who died on Monday at age 89, as having “both physical…
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Breaking News Chris Christie’s Controversial Special Election for Frank Lautenberg’s Seat
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday called a special election for October to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a decision seen as critical to the balance of power in the U.S. Congress and to Christie’s own political aspirations. Lautenberg, a liberal Democratic voice in the U.S….
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