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Fast Forward A county prosecutor is running on being ‘truly a Christian’ — against a Jewish opponent
A Jewish candidate for county attorney in Michigan is taking offense to ads from his opponent, who in a recent mailing and Facebook post calls himself “a candidate… who is truly a Christian.” Stuart Fenton is running to be the top prosecutor in Emmet County, in northern Michigan. His opponent, James Linderman, a four-term incumbent,…
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News The pandemic put Phoenix’s Jewish mayor in the spotlight. She’s walking a tightrope.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — When Kate Gallego was growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, she dreamed of moving to the big city and making an impact. To prepare, she played video games. “So there was a computer game Sim City where you could map out cities, and I loved that,” Gallego said in an interview this…
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Fast Forward Elected mayor at 22. Alex Morse, a gay Jewish progressive, is now running for Congress.
(JTA) — Alex Morse’s first job out of college was as mayor of his Massachusetts hometown, Holyoke. Morse spent only one day a week on campus at Brown University his last semester as he mounted a campaign against an incumbent three times his age. When he was elected later that year, the then-22-year-old first-generation college…
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News Insurgent New York primary victories could signal shift in Orthodox voting
In the middle of a once-in-a-century pandemic and historic protests over systemic racism in American society, three New York electoral districts with large Jewish communities are getting new political representation for the first time in well over a generation. The heavily Jewish Riverdale section of the Bronx as well as Rockland and Westchester Counties are…
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Community Joe Biden names his sh’liach to the Yidden – my partner
I lost my business partner last week, but for a good cause. Aaron Keyak is now Jewish Engagement Director for Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. His sh’liach to the Yidden, if you will. The campaign could not have picked a better person. Aaron and Bluelight Strategies, the Washington public-affairs firm we co-founded in 2014,…
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Fast Forward The fallout from Eliot Engel’s likely defeat and a look at other primaries
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jamaal Bowman, the middle school principal who challenged longtime Rep. Eliot Engel in New York’s 16th District, has declared victory based on his 2-1 lead among voters who headed to the polls for this week’s primary. Mail-in votes are still being counted, so Engel, the Jewish chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee,…
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Fast Forward Jon Ossoff, Jewish candidate for Senate, clinches Georgia Democratic nomination
(JTA) — Jon Ossoff, a Jewish investigative documentarian who lost a close 2017 race for the U.S. House of Representatives, won Georgia’s Democratic Party nomination for the U.S. Senate. Ossoff, 33, will challenge the Republican incumbent, David Perdue, in November. Perdue, in his first term, has highlighted his close relationship with President Donald Trump during…
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News In the wake of protests, here’s how you can help
After yet another police killing of an unarmed black man, protesters across the United States are demanding criminal justice reform on behalf of George Floyd and others who have died at the hands of law enforcement. Organizations and activists are mobilizing on several fronts. They’re working to protect the protesters, to reform policing, to change…
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