MONTREAL (JTA)—Canada’s two main Jewish groups are at odds over a lawsuit on whether it’s OK to have a national election on a Jewish High Holiday. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs – the official Canadian Jewish advocacy group — says there are enough alternative measures to accommodate Canada’s 75,000 Orthodox Jews who can’t…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A poll shows Jewish voters strongly favoring Democrats ahead of the midterm elections, and disapproving of President Donald Trump substantially more than the general population. The poll published Wednesday by the Jewish Electoral Institute, a new group founded by Jewish Democrats, shows respondents favoring Democrats over Republicans 74-26. It also shows low…
Florida is known for warm weather, wild partying and even wilder elections. The Democratic Party is hoping that a “blue wave” of November election victories will crash onto the state’s fabled beaches — and two Jewish politicians are central to its strategy. Former Obama official Lauren Baer has raised more than $1.5 million in her…
As the one year marker for Donald Trump’s presidency approaches, a new poll shows he holds an anemic 26% approval rating among Jews. Support for Trump by Jews dipped by 1 percentage point, part of an across-the-board decline in support. It indicates that Trump has lost backers in all electoral blocs – from liberals to…
More than half of Jewish respondents said they would vote for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton if the election were held again in a poll conducted by a New York paper. The poll targeted voters from neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Nassau County and other locations including the Bronx and Albany — areas where the…
How are rabbis communicating with their congregants about an election whose result has left many of them terrified? Based on his campaign statements and conduct, many see Donald Trump’s ascension to the White House not as a disappointment or even a bitter defeat, but as a mortal threat: to constitutional protections; to a society based…
In an election season that has rocked the nation, the Jewish community had its own share of rough and tumble, thrusting Jewish Americans into a new reality, one in which protection from bigotry is no longer taken for granted and communal political structures have been scrambled. An excruciating 18-month long campaign has normalized moments such…
He was born in Iran and is fluent in Persian, he wears a kippa to work at Trump Tower and he’s ready with a detailed rebuke to any claim a Jewish voter might come up with against his boss, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. David Peyman may very well be the Jewish Trump adviser you’ve…
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