Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News Who’s Endorsing Whom: Jewish Lawmakers’ Picks
HILLARY CLINTON Supporters: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY) Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV) Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA)…
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Culture Enrollment Up at Community Day Schools
By her own admission, Laurie Minsk was initially “very skeptical” about sending her two children to a Jewish day school. A Seattle resident who had grown up attending the city’s excellent public schools, Minsk, 48, worried about academic rigor and about whether an all-day Jewish school would mesh with her family’s Reform lifestyle. But as…
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News Activists Push for New Religious Politics
A coalition of Jewish activists is working to inject the presidential race with “values voters” — from the left. Dubbed the “Righteous Indignation Project,” the newly launched campaign has Jewish social justice groups in 10 cities trying to mobilize liberal Jews to participate in broader voter education and registration drives in 2008. Organizers say they’re…
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News Rural Converts Journey Into Judaism
A rural community described as “far away from everywhere,” Cairo, Ill., boasts 40 churches, 40 blocks and fewer than 4,000 people — and as of earlier this month, it also has 55 brand-new Jews. Dozens of Cairo’s residents — all African American and ranging from toddler to senior citizen — visited a mikveh in Memphis,…
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News Clinton, Giuliani Top Survey of Jewish Voters
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani are the top two hopefuls among American Jews, according to a poll released this week. Clinton garnered a “favorable” rating from 53% of all respondents to the survey, which was conducted by the American Jewish Committee. The senator’s onetime rival and fellow New Yorker, former Republican mayor Rudy…
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News Faith Groups Join Immigration Fray in Iowa
As the presidential contenders rush to score political points before the Iowa caucuses, a number of the state’s faith leaders are criticizing what they say is unnecessarily harsh rhetoric on immigration coming from several Republican campaigns. In little more than a month, activists have gathered thousands of signatures and assembled an ad hoc coalition that…
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News Romney Draws Fire for Speech on Religion
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney gave a much publicized speech this week on religion, politics and his Mormon faith, and Jewish groups wasted little time in criticizing it. While they endorsed Romney’s affirmation of the principles of religious toleration and the separation of church and state, both the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee…
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News Clinton’s Thesis on Leftist Icon Reveals Roots
As a former first lady aiming to become America’s first female president, Hillary Clinton has a biography heavy with male influences, including Hugh Rodham, the stern father who raised her as a Republican; Don Jones, the Methodist youth minister who introduced her to the civil rights movement, and former president Bill Clinton, her political and…
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