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News Scene Gets Grim at Hillary Clinton Election Night Event
The mood is getting strange at Hillary Clinton’s election night party at the Jacob Javits Center, as what was once an easy win seems at risk of slipping away. Clinton supporters are drinking beer in disconsolate groups in the food court in the conference centers’ bowels. As the singer Katy Perry left the stage, the…
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The Schmooze This Jewish Woman Created the Infamous #TrumpCake (and a Clinton One Too!)
When a sad looking cake in the likeness of Donald Trump’s face was snapped being wheeled into Trump Tower yesterday afternoon, the internet had a field day. The cake face was photoshopped onto babies, superposed over iconic images and incorporated into famous movies scenes (really making you re-think that sexy scene between Demi Moore and…
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News Outside Clinton’s Election Night Event, Women Wait, and Hope
When Jeanne Hauck was in the fifth grade, she wrote a letter of protest to her school newspaper. Girls were only allowed to wear dresses at Hauck’s school. She thought that was unfair. So she wrote a letter demanding the right to wear pants. The school relented. Today, some four decades later, Hauck and her…
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News BY THE NUMBERS: How the Jewish Vote Impacts Pennsylvania and Ohio
As the race tightens in key states on election night, the Jewish vote becomes more important in swing states such as Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Though Jews make up a small percentage of the population, over 80% of eligible Jewish voters typically show up to the polls in presidential election years (the average voter turnout…
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News Clinton Supporters — and a Reporter — Grouse About Being Locked Out of the Party
How does a Forward reporter get a second with the chairman of the Clinton campaign on election night? By getting stuck in a crazy crush of people at Hillary Clinton’s block party, locked out of the Javits Center, running wildly up 10th Avenue, and waiting his turn. The warning signs that the block party outside…
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Community New York Votes: Nasty Women, Power Suits, and More
In Washington Square Park, Tyler Joe, photo editor of Elle magazine, was taking photos on behalf of Pantsuit Nation, the “Secret Group” on Facebook supporting Hillary Clinton. Mr. Joe was was in the park from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. today taking photos of pantsuit clad voters. One voter had a Susan B Anthony coin necklace…
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Opinion 5 Creepy Anti-Semitic Memes On Reddit, Or How the ‘Alt-Right’ Spent Election Day
On Election Day, Hillary Clinton supporters and Donald Trump supporters alike are making the urgency in their votes known across every social media platform, with both camps gunning hard for their candidate. Of course, in Trump’s camp, there’s one subset of supporters that has made itself quite loudly, consistently and troublingly known throughout the 2016…
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News In Toxic Election, Jewish Schools Struggle to Find Teachable Moment
Since the beginning of the school year, the fifth-graders in Karen Hidalgo’s class at Austin Jewish Academy in Texas have been troubled by the mean-spiritedness of the presidential election. “I feel like at Jewish days schools when we talk about morals and ethics, our current candidates haven’t been wonderful role models in those areas,” said…
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