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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Culture Would Tevye vote for Trump or Biden? 25 fictional Jews weigh in.
The 2020 voter faces the ballot box during a season of unprecedented challenges — not least of which is the act of voting itself. In addition to the usual gerrymandering and voter suppression, a nationwide pandemic is poised to overwhelm an underfunded postal service. As if that weren’t enough, the president, repeating long-debunked claims of…
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Community Don’t take democracy for granted
My father knew the importance of what he often told me: “Don’t take democracy for granted.” In 1948, he came to the U.S. from Europe, where he had served in the army for seven consecutive years and where, before the war, he had helped write Czechoslovakia’s Constitution. Today, we are confronting profound social, economic and…
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News At the Republican Convention, some unconventional messaging for American Jews
WASHINGTON (JTA) — This week’s Republican convention was the first political confab to feature Jerusalem as a backdrop. It may be the last. A congressional subcommittee and two citizens have taken steps to launch investigations into whether Secretary of State Mike Pompeo broke the law by using government resources for a political campaign. Pompeo said…
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Fast Forward Republican candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene shared antisemitic video
The 2018 video claims ‘Zionist supremacists’ are attempting to replace white European populations.
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Fast Forward Israel, the Trumps, the extremism question: What we’re watching at the RNC
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Republican convention starting this week will have plenty of what appears to be Jewish-specific messaging, but the messaging’s more pertinent target may be evangelical Christians. President Donald Trump made that clear on Friday in a speech on the eve of the convention to a conservative group. Speaking to the Council for…
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Fast Forward When it comes to rabbis scheduled to speak, it’s DNC 2, RNC 0
The Democratic National Convention last week prominently featured not just one, but two rabbis. But so far, no rabbinic representation has been announced in the publicly-available schedule for the Republican National Convention, which began Monday morning. The absence this year is conspicuous as Republican leaders hope to lean on the Trump administration’s pro-Israel policies in…
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Fast Forward Pompeo will address Republican National Convention from Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will address the Republican National Convention from Jerusalem, spurring criticism that he is using his government office for political gain. Pompeo arrived in Israel on Monday morning and met in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They were expected to discuss “regional security issues related…
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Fast Forward Here’s how a rabbi created a prayer for the Democratic convention
Rabbi Lauren Berkun is set to take the virtual stage on Thursday to deliver one of the nightly benedictions at the Democratic National Convention. Berkun, the sole rabbi chosen to deliver a benediction, is the vice president of rabbinic initiatives at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. She talked to the Forward about what…
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