Joy Resmovits
By Joy Resmovits
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News Bagels & Ballots: The Aftermath
The Jewish Vote: As a Republican wave swept the House of Representatives, 66% of Jews voted Democratic, a survey shows. Jew-liticos will bid adieu to five Jewish incumbents and need to make connections with new unknown Tea Partiers. (The Forward) Tell Me More: Struggling to make sense of Tuesday evening’s events? The Forward’s opinion page…
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News Old-School Jewish Activist Faces the Future as Project Ezra Prepares for Merger
Misha Avramoff, 71, has a little problem with his pronouns. “We bombed the King David Hotel,” he said in an interview is his office in Project Ezra’s space, on New York City’s Lower East Side, as an aside in the self-narrated — and decidedly nonlinear — story of his life. It is hard to picture…
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News Federal Civil Rights Policy Expanded To Protect Jewish College Students
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights ruled that Jewish students will once again be included among groups protected from ethnic- or race-based harassment on campus under the Civil Rights Act. The October 26 decision, which restores a protection first given and then withdrawn from religious groups during the George W. Bush administration,…
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News In New York City, One Bright, Blue Spot
MIDTOWN MANHATTAN — On an evening of much Democratic sorrow, there’s one room full of Democrats erupting in cheer: the glitzy ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel in midtown Manhattan, where the state party is indeed partying in front of a gigantic American flag. Screens show broadcasts from local NY1 News, but not national election results…
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News Fears Stalk Voters in Manhattan’s Silk Stocking District
UPPER EAST SIDE, NEW YORK CITY — Fear — mostly of the Tea Party, but not only — is evident on this election day on Manhattan’s wealthy Upper East Side, home to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the television show “Gossip Girl.” The voting site in Hunter College’s School of Social Work was a…
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News Independent Votes in a Most Democratic Place
UPPER WEST SIDE, NEW YORK CITY — As the Jews of this northern Manhattan neighborhood walked past a school bake sale and up to the polls in P.S. 163, coats and scarves flapping on this brisk morning, some were torn between party loyalty and other concerns. Home to a diversity of synagogues and a large…
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News Bagels & Ballots: This Is It
After a long fall filled with mudslinging ads, record spending, masturbation double-standards, glamorous Hollywood endorsements that don’t work, digs about hair styles, kosher salami and kosher pastrami, we’ve almost made it. Stay tuned throughout the day for MitzVote’s coverage of Jewish voters at polls across the country. Here are some morning-of bits to tide you…
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News Bagels & Ballots: Erev Elections
Time to Face the Music: After months of speculation about control of congress, the midterm elections are upon us. Tomorrow, the country will take to the polls and determine its legislative future. But on the eve of the action itself, Gallup offered a warning to Democrats on Sunday night, with a poll indicating that Republicans…
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