Despite advance notice, ADL knocks Democratic group for Nazi comparison
The Jewish Democratic Council of America invoked Nazi imagery in an ad encouraging voters to support Democrats
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News ‘Scary’ Candidate Trump Will Push Jews Toward Clinton, Democrats Say
Donald Trump’s impending Republican nomination will spur American Jews to back Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in greater numbers, say several pundits and pols. Trump’s nomination will pull centrist Jews in the Democrats’ direction, said Greg Rosenbaum, chair of the National Jewish Democratic Council, a political lobbying organization. “We think it would be very…
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Fast Forward Jack Moline Leaves Jewish Democratic Council
Rabbi Jack Moline has left his post as director of the National Jewish Democratic Council after less than a year. Moline, a longtime rabbi in northern Virginia who was prominent in the Conservative movement and close to Obama administration figures, assumed the position at the beleaguered advocacy group in January of this year, and left…
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Opinion It’s Jew vs. Jew as Iran Sanctions Fight Gets Ugly
Sanctions bill sponsor Sen. Robert Menendez addresses AIPAC annual policy conference, Washington Convention Center, March 5, 2013 / Getty Images The debate over the Menendez-Kirk Iran sanctions bill in the Senate just keeps getting uglier. And now the nastiness is seeping – make that pouring – right into the heart of the Jewish community, as…
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Fast Forward Jack Moline Named Head of Jewish Democratic Council
The National Jewish Democratic Council named Rabbi Jack Moline, a prominent Conservative movement rabbi, as its new director. Moline, the rabbi at Agudas Achim in Alexandria, Va., since 1987, will assume the post in January, according to an NJDC statement released Monday. He will step down from his suburban Washington pulpit. He chaired Rabbis for…
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Opinion Can’t Avoid Obama? Here’s Why.
If Jewish voters have the feeling they cannot avoid the Democratic message this election cycle, it may have to do with a new group formed this summer that has been specifically targeting the media on Jewish voters issues. The Jewish media hub, as founders, Washington public relations consultants Steve Rabinowitz and Matt Dorf refer to…
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Opinion The RJC Wants to Give You An iPad 3
Want a new iPad 3? Spend fifty hours phone banking for the Republican Jewish Coalition and the $599 model is yours. Only have forty hours? That’s okay — the RJC can still hook you up with the $499 version. RJC volunteers in California, Washington, New York and Florida who rack up phone banking hours between…
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Opinion Obama’s Israeli Fans Sing His Praises
“Tank you Mister Obama, about everyting.” So says a random Israeli interviewed in an exceptionally strange new video out today from the National Jewish Democratic Council. The video opens with jaunty music playing under images of missile batteries. Then Israelis stopped on the street say nice things about the president. One woman in a shopping…
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