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Fast Forward Franken Faces More Accusations – Latest Is 3 Years Before Senate
Al Franken has been accused of sexual misconduct for a seventh time — this time in an incident that allegedly took place in 2006, Politico reported. An anonymous woman — a former Democratic congressional aide — accused Franken of trying to forcibly kiss her after a taping of his radio show in 2006. The alleged…
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Fast Forward Senate Ethics Committee Begins Inquiry Into Al Franken Groping Charges
(JTA) — The Senate Ethics Committee opened a preliminary inquiry into groping allegations against Sen. Al Franken. Six women have accused Franken, D-Minn., who is Jewish, of touching them inappropriately during various photo opportunities and campaign events. The accusations date from between 2003 and 2010. “While the Committee does not generally comment on pending matters…
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Fast Forward Al Franken Gets Another Groping Allegation – The Second From His USO Tour
Senator Al Franken has been accused of sexual misconduct for a fifth time, this time by an army veteran, CNN reported. Stephanie Kemplin, of Ohio, is claiming that Franken groped her breast during a photo op while he was on a USO tour in 2006. The first public allegation of sexual misconduct against Franken also…
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Fast Forward Will Al Franken Be Accused Of Groping Again? ‘I Can’t Say,’ Says Al Franken
Senator Al Franken said he “didn’t know” if he would be accused of groping someone again, the Washington Post reported. Franken spoke with several Minnesota news outlets on Sunday about the two allegations of groping made against him. In response to a question about whether he has ever placed a hand on a woman’s buttock’s…
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Fast Forward Al Franken Accused Of Touching 2nd Woman Inappropriately — This Time In Office
A woman accused Senator Al Franken of touching her inappropriately while she took a picture with him at the Minnesota State Fair in 2010, CNN reported. The woman, Lindsay Menz, 33, of Texas, says Franken grabbed her butt cheek while her husband took the picture of her and Franken. Menz’s husband, father and mother all…
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Books Forverts Editorial: What’s Our Agenda?
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. As editor of the Forverts, most of the questions I get from readers involve either the price of an obituary or a request to decipher a handwritten postcard written by a deceased relative. Recently, though, I got an email with a very different sort of question: “I’d…
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Opinion The Silver Lining In Brooklyn’s Ultra-Orthodox Mudfest
On Election Night, I turned on the TV and waited patiently. There was only one competition I was particularly personally invested in: the New York City Council race for the 44th District. The race was waged between an attorney named Kalman Yeger and a social worker named Yoni Hikind. Each had a strong ally backing…
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News Did AIPAC Secretly Write Your Rabbi’s Sermon?
AIPAC may have secretly written your rabbi’s sermon. Each week, the pro-Israel lobby the American Israel Public Affairs Committee sends out two prewritten sermons to rabbis across the United States, pushing AIPAC’s legislative agenda and its policy goals. And each week, AIPAC reminds rabbis that they shouldn’t tell congregants where they got the pre-written texts….
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Culture I come from a long line of Jewish Bundists. Now, Molly Crabapple is part of our family.
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Fast Forward 200+ Bnei Menashe immigrate to Israel from India, the first to make the journey in years
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Yiddish װאָס קען מען זיך אָפּלערנען פֿון מאָלי קראַבעפּלס בוך װעגן „בונד“?What can we learn from Molly Crabapple’s book about the Bund?
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Sports Today’s American Jews finally have their era’s Sandy Koufax