Ben Fractenberg
By Ben Fractenberg
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News DeSantis Jewish Outreach Head Attended Anti-Pelosi Protest With Proud Boys
The head of Florida gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis’ Jewish outreach around Miami attended a Republican protest outside a campaign event that included participation by two members of the white nationalist group the Proud Boys — and later caused a party leader to apologize. Miami-Dade Jewish outreach chair Corey Breier, who also donated $2,000 to the…
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News RNC Takes Neo-Nazi Money; Trump Campaign Still Hasn’t Returned Racists’ Gifts
Republicans have taken more money from neo-Nazis while President Trump’s reelection campaign has kept multiple donations from white supremacists, records show. Trump’s campaign has still not returned gifts from at least three white nationalists after the Forward exclusively reported their donations on July 30. The president’s 2020 election operation still has hundreds of dollars from…
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News Jewish Veteran Flush With Cash Narrows Lead Of Republican On Staten Island
Jewish Army vet Max Rose raised nearly five times more than his Republican rival from July through September in his bid to oust incumbent Rep. Dan Donovan in a Staten Island-centered district that could be key to the Democrats flipping the House on Nov. 6. Rose brought in $1.6 million and has than $1 million…
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News Adelson-Backed PAC’s New Strategy Demonizes All Democrats
A super PAC Jewish conservative megadonor Sheldon Adelson helped found released an ad weeks ahead of the midterm vote linking Democratic candidates with radical leftist protesters bent on impeaching President Trump. Future45 will reportedly spend $10 million on the ad, “A Democrat,” which will air on ABC, NBC and CBS broadcast affiliates as well as…
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News Perry Gershon Leverages Hamptons Star Power In Race Featuring Two Jews
Eastern Long Island is a study in contrasts. It’s got acres of farms, punctuated by mom-and-pop stores. But it’s also home to the Hamptons, where New York’s elite summers. After a day on the stump in early October, Perry Gershon’s campaign for the area’s congressional seat was working that Hamptons glitz with Alec Baldwin, who…
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News Will Jacky Rosen’s Stint As Synagogue President Make Her A Better Senator?
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…
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Fast Forward Jewish House Candidates Bolstered By GOP Spending Cuts In Swing Races
A number of Jewish Democratic challengers running for Congress have seen their chances increase with national Republican groups withdrawing financial support and all but conceding the races. With less a month before the Nov. 6 vote, the GOP is making tough choices to try and hold their losses to fewer than 23 seats, which would…
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News Donor Gave $5K To Florida Black GOP Caucus Day After Report He Used N-Word
A Florida Republican activist donated to a prominent African-American organization the day after a report was published broadcasting the fact that he called former President Barack Obama a “F—— MUSLIM N——” on Twitter, public records show. Steven Alembik, who first made national news for holding a pro-Israel fundraiser at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort following the…
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