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(JTA) — A Jewish man leaving a Nevada bar was stabbed in the head by a man on the sidewalk outside who had asked him for money and then shouted anti-Semitic insults. The alleged stabber raised his arm in a Nazi salute multiple times and said “Heil Hitler, you piece of shit” before stabbing the…
(JTA) — The daughter of a rabbi in Las Vegas found anti-Semitic and threatening notes left on her middle school desk. One note discovered earlier this week contained a large swastika and the words “You don’t belong here.” The second was a drawing of Adolf Hitler with his hand in the air, a Nazi salute…
From Shul President To Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen has climbed the leadership ladder quickly. In 2016 she was her Las Vegas-area synagogue’s president, then in 2017 she was elected to Congress, before winning an even bigger national office — being elected senator for Nevada in 2018. She’s the first freshman congresswoman to ever win a…
(JTA) — Jacky Rosen, a former synagogue president and a freshman Democratic Congresswoman from Nevada, defeated sitting Sen. Dean Heller. Rosen defeated Heller with 50.8 percent of the vote to Heller’s 45 percent. Rosen, a former software developer, was talked into running by former Sen. Harry Reid, who believed she was the likeliest challenger to…
When Nevada Senate candidate Jacky Rosen was thinking about running for Congress in 2016, she called her rabbi for advice. “I thought about it and I thought about the skills necessary for someone to run for Congress,” Rabbi Sanford Akselrad of Congregation Ner Tamid, the largest Reform synagogue in Nevada, told the Forward. “I said…
(JTA) — President Donald Trump took a swipe at the Jewish Democratic lawmaker challenging Nevada’s sitting Republican senator. Trump nicknamed Nevada Rep. Jacky Rosen “Wacky Jacky” on Saturday in a speech to the Nevada state GOP convention. Rosen, a freshman congresswoman who served as president of her suburban Las Vegas Reform synagogue, is challenging Republican…
Jacky Rosen is now in the news. The first-term Nevada congresswoman, who until entering politics served as a synagogue president, is now poised to run for the state’s senate seat opening in 2018. Rosen, according to reports has responded positively to requests from Democratic leaders to challenge incumbent Republican Dean Heller, in hope that a…
(JTA) — The Nevada Assembly unanimously passed legislation that would ban state government entities from doing business with companies that boycott Israel. The Assembly passed the legislation on Wednesday. It had passed the state Senate last month by a vote of 19-2. The bill advances to Gov. Brian Sandoval for his signature. Sandoval led a…
