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Fast Forward Debate Offers Opening to Romney With Jews
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at the Monday foreign policy debate, should play to the Jewish TV audience like he was the star of a Borscht Belt revue. Romney has a tempting assortment of issues he can tap to frame President Barack Obama as a leader whose policies are perilous for Israel. He can use…
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Opinion What Is the ‘Jewish Vote’?
No one can say whether the Jewish vote actually exists. Jews vote, but not as a block. Thus, the idea of a distinctly Jewish vote is, in a way, a mirage, more in our heads than in the heads of voters as they go to the polls. The Jewish vote is the accumulation of votes…
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Opinion Real Tax Debate? Eisenhower vs. Reagan
For all the frantic debate-watching that’s swept the nation this fall, one of the most important debates of the current election season has gone largely unheard. It’s a whispered debate between the two most celebrated Republican presidents of the last century, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, over how to achieve economic growth. Eisenhower, serving from…
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News Hollywood Ponies Up Big for Obama
Democratic donors gave unprecedented amounts of money in September to their party’s three main “Super PACs,” federal disclosures revealed on Friday, a reflection of how wealthy Democrats’ reluctance to give to such groups has faded in the weeks before the Nov. 6 election. Dreamworks’ Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg gave $1 million each, Politico reported….
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Fast Forward Sad Goodbye to Arlen Specter
More than 1,000 people bid farewell on Tuesday to former U.S. Senator Arlen Specter at a service featuring tributes by family and dignitaries and concluding with Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.” Specter died at his Philadelphia home on Sunday after battling non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 82. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and former Pennsylvania Governor Ed…
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Fast Forward Activists Blast Mindy Meyer Over Elephant
Animal rights activists blasted Mindy Meyer for bringing an elephant to a fundraising event for her Brooklyn state Senate campaign. A spokesperson for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said Meyer, the 22-year-old Orthodox Jewish law student, should have considered the possibility that the pachyderm “suffered greatly” to make her gimmicky photo-op a success….
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News Arlen Specter Wore Independence on Sleeve
During his 30 years in the clubby confines of the U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter never lost his acerbic prosecutorial zeal, friends and associates say. The insistent questions, the commitment to independence that made the longtime Pennsylvania senator a critical player in recent U.S. history, ultimately did in his career. In his 2010 bid for a…
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News Arlen Specter, A Fiercely Independent American Original
It was impossible to be a journalist in Philadelphia and not encounter Arlen Specter. It was just about impossible to be engaged in the Philadelphia Jewish community and not encounter Arlen Specter. As a member of the working press in Philadelphia for decades, and as a parent active in my children’s Jewish day schools, I…
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