Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the 2020 election. Visit here for the latest news on the candidates running for president. The race began with 25 Democrats and two Republicans, including President Trump, who is running for reelection. There are…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu’s new media adviser said ‘unfit’ Biden ‘destroying America,’ echoed Trump’s voter fraud claims
Gilad Zwick has criticized the U.S. president and the validity of the 2020 elections, claiming he is 'slowly but surely ruining America' and referring to him as 'Supreme Leader Biden'
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News Everything you need to know about Jon Ossoff, Georgia’s next senator
This wasn’t Jon Ossoff’s first race. If his name sounded familiar last year, when he challenged Republican incumbent Sen. David Perdue before heading into Nov. 5’s closely watched Georgia runoff, there’s a reason. In 2017, Ossoff ran to represent Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District. He then achieved the curious distinction of being one of the first…
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News Marc Elias, Democratic power-lawyer, is hero of the election in many circles
Marc Elias, the Democratic lawyer and power broker, was having a big day. His by turns earnest, exultant and swaggering Twitter presence had pushed him over a milestone: “400k,” he posted earlier this month, accompanied by an emoji wearing a party hat and blowing a streamer. Elias, 51, who rose to prominence a dozen years…
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News Liberals launch Georgia counterattack over Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s far-right ties
After weeks of Republican attacks against Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock’s record on Israel, progressive groups are pushing back by pointing to what they say are Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s ties to white supremacists. Loeffler, a Republican, turned her attention to Warnock shortly after the November election, in which neither candidate passed the 50% threshold required to…
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News Ossoff: GOP attacks on Warnock over Israel ‘make me sick’
With questions over Israel policy continuing to play an outsize role in the runoff election for Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats, Jon Ossoff came to the defense of his fellow Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock on Wednesday. “Reverend Warnock is a beloved friend and ally of Georgia’s’s Jewish community and a friend of Israel,” Ossoff said…
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Community In 2020, we’ve been unable to breathe. But after the election, we finally took a breath.
Last Shabbat, when the news spread that Joe Biden had won, I breathed a sigh of relief. Along with my family and millions in the U.S. and the world over I felt that a massive burden had been lifted from our shoulders and that we could, therefore, breathe freely again. Then it struck me that…
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Community Celebrating Trump’s defeat with my Black Jewish daughter
I was sitting at my kitchen table when it was called. In true 2020 fashion, I was on a Zoom call with my colleagues. Applause broke out. Tears flowed and champagne was popped. I heard the streets of DC erupt in wild joy. I put on my sneakers and my mask and took my family…
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Culture Alexander Vindman and his twin share their story of service
In a Veterans Day message, Lt. Col Alexander Vindman and his twin brother, Lt. Col Yevgeny Vindman, told their story on behalf of all refugees, military and civilian. In the video for HIAS, the 139-year-old Jewish nonprofit that aids refugees from around the world, the brothers, who were smeared as disloyal by the Trump administration,…
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