Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News Dozens of Jewish Super-Delegates May Hold Key to Democratic Race
According to a new survey conducted by the Forward, a disproportionately large share of the Democratic party’s super-delegates are Jewish. Many of them have declared their support for Hillary Clinton, accounting for more than 15% of her current backers. Like the general population of super-delegates, whose support remains fluid, several Jewish supporters of the New…
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News Memphis Pol Gets Cold Shoulder in Racially Charged Electoral Rematch
In an election year dominated by the issue of race in the presidential campaign, a Jewish congressman from Memphis, Tenn., is crying foul over the reluctance of his African American colleagues to lend a hand to his re-election bid. Freshman Rep. Steve Cohen — one of a handful of white lawmakers to represent a majority-black…
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News Evangelical’s Endorsement Spurs Debate
Jewish leaders are divided over whether Republican presidential frontrunner John McCain should reject a recent endorsement from the Rev. John Hagee, with one prominent rabbi taking the leader of the Anti-Defamation League to task over his refusal to criticize the GOP candidate. Hagee, an evangelical Christian minister from San Antonio, Texas, has long courted controversy…
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News Blind Rabbi Picks Up Steam in Race
Rabbi Dennis Shulman is gaining ground in his Democratic congressional bid to unseat Rep. Scott Garrett in northern New Jersey’s fifth congressional district. If elected, Shulman, a nationally known clinical psychologist who has been blind since adolescence, will become the only rabbi to serve in Congress. While Garrett, a conservative Republican first elected in 2003,…
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News Franken Proves a Formidable Foe
If Republican Senator Norm Coleman fails to win his 2008 re-election bid in Minnesota, it seems increasingly likely it will go to another Jewish American: former “Saturday Night Live” comedian Al Franken. Franken, the humorist turned liberal pundit, could become the fourth Jewish politician in a row to occupy the Coleman Senate seat. Since 1979,…
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News Top Rabbi Calls for Leaders To Stay Out of Campaign Fight
As the leader of the country’s largest synagogue movement, the Union for Reform Judaism’s Rabbi Eric Yoffie normally tries to stay out of partisan politics. But in recent months, as presidential contender Barack Obama has been subjected to a wave of public criticism from segments of the Jewish community, Yoffie has found himself increasingly distressed…
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News Campaign Giving Online Challenges Influence of Major Communal Donors
As the presidential primary season grinds on and traditional donor networks run dry, Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are relying on grass-roots activism — both online and off — to generate new sources of campaign cash. Jewish activists for both campaigns say they are redoubling their outreach efforts, even as they contemplate what it…
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News Jews Follow Trend, Split Vote for Dems
Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama each won a stamp of approval from Jewish voters Tuesday, as both Democratic presidential contenders captured significant Jewish support in key primary contests. While Clinton laid claim to the overwhelming backing of Jewish communities in New Jersey and in her home state of New York, Obama won the…
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