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Fast Forward Jewish Kansas state House candidate was arrested as teenager for threatening to shoot female student
(JTA) — Aaron Coleman, the 20-year-old Jewish student and Democratic nominee for a state House seat in Kansas, was arrested in 2015 for threatening to shoot a female student at a local high school. The revelations about the arrest further detail Coleman’s history of harassing woman. This summer, Coleman admitted to calling a girl fat…
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Community It is not too late for American Democracy — yet
Democracy is under attack, in countries around the globe and in the United States. As scholars and directors of Holocaust and genocide study centers at American universities, who were born and raised in East and West Germany after 1945, we are watching the deliberate dismantling of democracy in the U.S. with growing concern. We have…
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Fast Forward Looking back at a crazy Jewish year of politics
WASHINGTON (JTA) — To prepare for Rosh Hashanah, take a break, my editor said. Let’s take this moment to look back at the crazy year in politics, he said. So I did — but it wasn’t a restorative break. In 5780, the news didn’t stop. Shana tova to my readers, and here’s hoping we’ll get…
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Fast Forward Kansas Jewish college student, 19, defeats longtime State House incumbent
(JTA) — A 19-year-old Jewish community college student has defeated a 13-year incumbent in the Democratic primary for a state House seat in Kansas. But the party has disavowed Aaron Coleman, who has admitted to harassing girls online when he was in middle school. Coleman, of Kansas City, defeated Stan Frownfelter, 823 to 809, in…
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Fast Forward Republican Congressional candidate deletes photos from Hitler’s retreat vacation
(JTA) — A right-wing Republican congressional candidate in North Carolina has taken down pictures he posted to Instagram from a 2017 vacation to the Eagle’s Nest, the Nazi retreat in Germany that Hitler visited more than a dozen times. Just seeing these @CawthornforNC Instagram posts from 2017…my god. Referring to Hitler with the honorific “Führer.”…
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Fast Forward Report: Trump lashes out at Sheldon Adelson, one of his biggest donors
(JTA) — Sheldon Adelson might be one of Donald Trump’s biggest donors, but that doesn’t mean the two men have a warm relationship. According to a report in Politico this weekend, Trump appeared not to understand Adelson’s significance when the president spoke to him last week — and lashed out at the casino magnate for…
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Community Why isn’t climate change a bigger issue for the Orthodox?
Why have Orthodox Jews been so slow to commit to the struggle against climate change? The Pope and the Islamic Society of North America have spoken up about it. In January, Renewal Rabbi Arthur Waskow’s Shalom Center issued a statement with more than 500 rabbinic signees, and this spring, Reform Rabbi Jennie Rosenn launched Dayenu:…
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Fast Forward A Jewish guide to Biden’s VP short list
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is expected to name his running mate in the next two weeks, and while the list of contenders has changed constantly for months, most reports have now whittled the group of front-runners down to Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Susan Rice, Karen Bass, Tammy Duckworth and Keisha Lance…
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