The latest on Bernie Sanders, a Jewish Senator from Vermont.
The latest on Bernie Sanders, a Jewish Senator from Vermont.
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Fast Forward Actually, It Would Be Big News If Bernie Sanders And Larry David Weren’t Cousins
In the season premiere of the PBS’ show “Finding Your Roots,” hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Larry David and Senator Bernie Sanders are told of their respective ancestries. David gained acclaim in 2015 for doing a “spot-on” impression of the senator, a performance made easier by the widely remarked-upon fact that David shares Sanders’…
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The Schmooze How Bernie Sanders And Larry David Found Out They’re Cousins — Really
Let it be known — “Finding Your Roots” is the purest show on television. There is something so innocent about watching Henry Louis Gates Jr. calmly doling out the ancestral secrets of famous people with a measured glee as said famous person reacts like a child who has been told he is going to Disney…
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Fast Forward Sanders Meets West Bank Activist Being Prosecuted By Israel — And Palestinians
Bernie Sanders took some time on Thursday to meet with Issa Amro, a Palestinian activist visiting Washington after being arrested and prosecuted by Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials. According to Amro, he and the Vermont senator discussed the Israel-Palestine conflict, including “discussing the current situation on the ground and what can be done to change…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Cries When He Learns About Relative Who Died Defying Nazis
(JTA) — In the upcoming season premiere of the PBS series “Finding Your Roots,” Bernie Sanders gets emotional when he discovers a relative died while standing up to the Nazis during World War II. In a clip released to JTA, the Jewish lawmaker is visibly moved as the show’s host, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates,…
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Opinion Bernie Sanders Should Just Keep His Mouth Shut On The High Holidays
Last week, Bernie Sanders gave a much-touted foreign policy speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, the same location where Winston Churchill delivered his famous “Iron Curtain” address in 1946. The contents of the speech were intriguing. So was its timing. Sanders delivered it on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. This has become a…
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Breaking News Is Bernie Sanders The Democrats’ New Foreign Policy Guru?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bernie Sanders, a senator from Vermont, is still an Independent, but he’s no longer an outsider. That became clear this month when some Democratic establishment stalwarts in the Senate signed on to his “Medicare-for-All” bill, which would establish a single-payer system for health care. Hillary Clinton is on a book tour and…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders: U.S. ‘Complicit’ In Israeli Occupation
(JTA) — Sen. Bernie Sanders said the United States is “complicit” in Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. “But that is not to say … that Israel is the only party at fault,” Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, said in an interview with The Intercept news website published on Friday evening. Sanders…
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Fast Forward 7 Jewish Senators Push Netanyahu To Act On Western Wall Prayer
(JTA) — Bernie Sanders is among seven Jewish-American senators who sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging him to implement an agreement to expand an egalitarian prayer plaza at the Western Wall. Netanyahu’s Cabinet put a hold in June on the deal passed in 2016, drawing the ire of American Jewish leaders. In the…
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