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Opinion Why Did Bernie Sanders Pick ‘Palestine’ as Poverty Benchmark?
(JTA) — Bernie Sanders, campaigning this weekend in Baltimore ahead of Tuesday’s primary in Maryland, sounded familiar and poignant notes about American poverty, arguing that the United States, the world’s mightiest power, lags behind developing countries on a number of scales. One marker, though, was odd: Two neighborhoods in Baltimore, he said, have worse infant…
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Breaking News Bernie Sanders Shuns Senate Push for $4B-Plus Military Aid to Israel
More than four-fifths of the U.S. Senate have signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to quickly reach an agreement on a new defense aid package for Israel worth more than the current $3 billion per year. Eight-three of the 100 senators signed the letter, led by Republican Lindsey Graham and Democrat Chris Coons. Senator…
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Opinion What the Other Bernie Teaches Us About the Budding Sanders Personality Cult
In mid-February of 1983, a week before Chicago chose its Democratic nominee for mayor, People magazine published a bemused profile of a political curiosity named Bernard Epton. An insurance lawyer who had put in a dozen years as a state legislator, Epton was the Republican candidate for City Hall. In a city that overwhelmingly voted…
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Opinion Why It Was Right To Suspend Simone Zimmerman from Bernie Sanders Campaign
Simone Zimmerman had to be suspended. Not that I have any problem with her passion. Or, truth be told, with most of her politics. And certainly it’s hard not to be impressed by Zimmerman, the brilliant and eloquent organizer, a driving force within J Street U and IfNotNow, still in her mid-20s. (I wish Zimmerman…
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News How Old-Fashioned Politicking Swung New York Jewish Vote — Not Israel Debate
Did Bernie Sanders’s harsh criticism of Israel cost him the New York Jewish vote? Or perhaps the turmoil over his firing of his Jewish outreach director on the eve of the vote? Neither, say campaign insiders. It was Hillary Clinton skillfully playing good old-fashioned politics, the kind in which voters align with candidates they know…
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News Hillary Clinton Looks Ahead After New York Sweep — Math Starts To Catch Up With Bernie
Hillary Clinton took a huge step toward locking down the Democratic nomination once and for all with a decisive victory over Bernie Sanders in the New York primary — a win that appears to have been boosted by strong backing from Jewish voters. Clinton, for the first time since the campaign kicked off a year…
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Opinion This Passover, We’re Joining Simone Zimmerman To Fight for Freedom for All
When the American Jewish establishment went after Simone Zimmerman, Bernie Sanders’s recent pick as his liaison to the Jewish community and a longtime social justice activist and organizer, it made a clear statement to an entire generation of young Jews: If you dare to depart from our position on Israel, you are not welcome in…
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Opinion What Campaign Donor Lists Tell Us About Changing Nature of Jewish Political Power
Who speaks for the Jews? It’s an age-old question that’s often asked by partisans of every Jewish cause. What we usually mean is: Who pleads the Jewish case in the halls of decision-making? And no less important: Who decides what is the Jewish agenda? This campaign season we need to ask another question that sounds…
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