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Opinion Balding Jew Grabs Lead for L.A. Seat
The Berman-Sherman congressional race in California’s 30th district has been nothing but pure drama. With millions of dollars pouring into the race, attack ads, and with the two Jewish Democrats, Howard Berman and Brad Sherman’s latest debate making headlines thanks to an unprecedented physical altercation, the entire nation is tuning in to see who will…
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Fast Forward Brad Sherman Sorry for Grabbing Berman
Rep. Brad Sherman is expressing regret over a much-discussed incident in which he grabbed his opponent Rep. Howard Berman during a heated moment in a debate. “I touched him, I put my arm around his shoulder, I should not have done that,” the California Democrat, who is locked in a redistricting-induced battle, told the Associated…
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News Circumcision Rite Goes Unregulated Outside New York
As New York City health authorities and ultra-Orthodox groups clash over metzitzah b’peh, officials in other cities are making no effort to regulate the risky oral suction technique sometimes used during ritual circumcision. In fact, unlike in New York City, health authorities elsewhere often have no mandate to monitor the incidence of the herpes strain…
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Opinion When Balding Jews Attack
A startling video posted online Thursday night shows California Rep. Brad Sherman violently grabbing his bitter rival Rep. Howard Berman during a debate. The confrontation between the two Jewish Democrats fighting for their political lives was shot at a Thursday night debate at Pierce College, according to a report in the Los Angeles Daily News….
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Opinion Jewish Races Among Nastiest in Nation
Jewish candidates are involved in some of the meanest, dirtiest races of the 2012 election cycle. There are 435 U.S. House races this fall. Politico picked the ten “nastiest.” Of those, three feature Jewish candidates. Politico doesn’t divulge its criteria for picking the “nastiest” races. But even an unscientific survey by the wonks at the…
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News Torn Between Homeland, New Land and Israel
As Iranian Jews prepared traditional Rosh Hashanah pots of abgoosht — the community’s lamb-based answer to Ashkenazi chicken soup — the topic on many of their minds was a somber one. Will Israel strike at the place Iranian Jews once called home? “A lot of people are talking about it, and it is a topic…
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Fast Forward Howard Berman Wins Nod From GOP Senators
Los Angeles Democratic Rep. Howard Berman has reportedly won the support of two high-profile Republican senators and independent Joe Lieberman in his intramural showdown with Rep. Brad Sherman. Politico reports that Sens. John McCain and Lindsay Graham plan to join Lieberman today in announcing their support for the longtime Democratic stalwart, who was forced into…
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News Zev Yaroslavsky Won’t Enter Mayoral Fray
Zev Yaroslavsky, the Los Angeles County Supervisor and longtime Southern California political force, has announced he will not enter the 2013 race for mayor of Los Angeles. The move signals not only an end to Yaroslavsky’s 40 years as the city’s most prominent and popular Jewish politician, but also clears the field for the three…
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