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 WATCH: Sanders Says He’d ‘Absolutely’ Consider Cutting Aid To Israel
(JTA) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said he would “absolutely” consider cutting U.S. aid to Israel to pressure the Israeli government to act different. “This is not easy stuff — to try to finally bring peace to the Middle East and to treat the Palestinian people with a kind of respect and dignity they…
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News Who Are Jews Backing In The Democratic Race? Hint: Not Bernie, Or Biden
Senator Bernie Sanders holds the record for the most successful Jewish presidential campaign in American history. He has relatives who died in the Holocaust. He’s speaking more about his Jewish identity. He once played a rabbi in a movie, and he barely even had to act. He is not, however, the presidential candidate who is…
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News The Forward’s Jewish Donor Tracking Methodology, Explained
For the past few months, the Forward has been working on a project to quantitatively analyze Jewish political activity in the Democratic presidential primary. Our first article in this series, examining Jewish donations to Democratic presidential candidates, can be read here. Which donors did we track? Every three months, candidates for president and Congress have…
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Fast Forward Sanders Campaign Workers Say They’re Only Being Paid ‘Poverty Wages’
(JTA) — Unionized campaign organizers working for Bernie Sanders’ presidential effort complained that their employment terms fall short of Sanders’ rhetoric on labor standards. Campaign hires have demanded an annual salary equivalent to a $15-an-hour wage, which Sanders, a senator who is Jewish and who describes himself as a democratic socialist, for years has said…
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The Schmooze Alyssa Milano, Jason Mraz, Nicole Richie Offer Tentative Support To Mariane Williamson
“You have harnessed fear for political purposes and only love can cast that out,” Marianne Williamson declared in the first round of presidential debate, addressing President Donald Trump. A handful of celebrities of slightly dubious standing have heard that call — TV star and activist Alyssa Milano, it-gal Nicole Richie, and pop-folk artist Jason Mraz….
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Visited The Tree Of Life Synagogue – Secretly
Sen. Bernie Sanders forbade his campaign staff from publicizing a visit he paid to the site of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre in April because he didn’t want the visit to be seen as a “publicity grab,” The New York Times reported Saturday. Sanders, who is Jewish, met with the rabbi of the Tree of Life…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Is Proud Of His ‘Anti-Endorsements’ From Billionaires
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bernie Sanders’s campaign says he is proud not to include Haim Saban as a backer of his presidential bid. The Sanders campaign put the pro-Israel entertainment mogul and major Democratic Party funder first on a list of 13 “anti-endorsements” — that is, public figures whose support Sanders either doesn’t want or isn’t…
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The Schmooze Bernie Sanders Insists That He’s Not A Grumpy Self-Hating Jew
In a quippy new social media video, Bernie Sanders cracks a joke, then talks about race, Judaism, abortion, and basketball. Not Elizabeth Warren. Not Cory Booker. Bernie Sanders. In 2016, when Sanders faced off against Hillary Clinton, he enjoyed a cache of coolness, despite the two candidates’ matching papery white skin. Now, with all the…
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