Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News Jewish Dems Defend Muslim Candidate
As Republicans press their campaign to discredit Minnesota lawmaker Keith Ellison over his past ties to the Nation of Islam, some Jewish Democrats are emerging as leading backers of his bid to become the first Muslim member of Congress. “Keith has recognized his past mistakes and renounced his brief association with the Nation of Islam,”…
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News GOP Push for Sectarian Public Prayers in Military Opposed by Orthodox Group
In their fight to pass legislation allowing military chaplains to offer sectarian prayers at public services, conservative congressional leaders have lost an erstwhile ally: the Orthodox Union. The O.U., an organization that represents about 1,000 congregations and often joins Christian conservatives in their fight to lower the wall separating church and state, has weighed in…
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News A Tribe of Candidates Leads Drive To Retake House for Democrats
More than a half-century ago, when Akiba Hornstein, the son of a Lithuanian rabbi, made his way from New York to the sunny desert of southern Arizona, he found himself, like many Jews in the hinterlands, in need of a name change. Soon, the state had a Gifford Hornstein. When, presumably, that moniker failed to…
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News Democratic Hopefuls Find Religion on Campaign Trail
In an attempt to woo religious voters, Tennessee’s Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate has filmed a campaign commercial in his childhood church, with a large white cross looming over his right shoulder. “I started in the church the old-fashioned way… I was forced to,” said Rep. Harold Ford Jr., sitting in a glossy wooden…
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Israel News In the Lions’ Den
Scoring a president of the United States as guest speaker on September 11 is no mean feat — even if he’s not the one in office. In one of the two speeches he gave on the fifth anniversary of the Al Qaeda attacks, former President Bill Clinton addressed United Jewish Communities’ International Lion of Judah…
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News Liberals Cheering at JTS, Crying Foul Elsewhere Over Gay Debate
Even as the incoming liberal chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary appears to be solidifying his control over Conservative Judaism’s flagship institution, the movement’s congregational union is being accused of sidelining vocal supporters of gay rights. For Arnold Eisen, chancellor elect of JTS, the school year began last week with two standing ovations and the…
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News Minnesota Winner Poised To be First Muslim in Congress
Overcoming concerns about his past association with the Nation of Islam, Democratic front-runner Keith Ellison prevailed Tuesday in a crowded Minneapolis primary to put himself in a strong position to become the first Muslim member of Congress. Speaking via telephone the morning after his victory, the newly minted Democratic nominee in Minnesota’s fifth district told…
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News National Roundup
The Democratic quest to take back the House of Representatives this November will rest, in part, on Steve Kagen, the victor in a crowded Democratic primary in Wisconsin’s eighth congressional district. Kagen, 56, a Jewish doctor from the city of Appletown, handily won Tuesday’s three-way contest, garnering 47% of the vote with 87% of precincts…
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