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Fast Forward Bill Would Codify $38B In Defense Aid For Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A bipartisan bill timed for AIPAC’s annual conference would codify into law the memorandum of understanding signed in 2016 by Israel and the United States guaranteeing Israel $38 billion in defense assistance over 10 years. The bill introduced Friday is sponsored by two Middle East policy leaders in the U.S. House of…
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Fast Forward Levi Sanders Is Running For Congress
(JTA) — Levi Sanders, the son of Sen. Bernie Sanders, announced that he will run for Congress in New Hampshire. He made the announcement Monday evening, a day after the senator’s stepdaughter Carina Driscoll announced her bid for mayor of Burlington, Vermont, a post once held by Bernie Sanders. Levi Sanders, 48, becomes the eighth…
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Fast Forward Laura Moser Takes Hit From Party Establishment In Democratic Primary For Texas Congress Seat
The Democratic Party is gunning for Laura Moser, a Democratic candidate in a Houston-area Congressional primary. Yesterday, in an unusually aggressive attack, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted opposition research against Moser, calling her “a Washington insider who begrudgingly moved to Houston to run for Congress.” Moser is a prominent Jewish leader of the anti-Trump…
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Fast Forward Alan Grayson Is Running For Congress Again, But Where?
Alan Grayson’s whirlwind political career is about to take another turn. The progressive Florida politician served one term in Congress from 2009-2011, lost his seat before winning it back, then left it again for a failed 2016 Senate run. He’s now giving politics another try. Grayson plans to run for the House again in 2018,…
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Fast Forward 102 House Dems Urge Trump To Continue Funding UN’s Palestinian Refugee Agency
(JTA) — Some 102 Democratic congressmen sent a letter to President Donald Trump calling on him to continue funding for tbe U.N.’s Palestinian relief agency and to the Palestinian Authority. The State Department last month announced that it had put a hold on $65 million of the $125 million annual allocation to the United Nations…
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Breaking News In Memphis, Jewish Congressmen’s Shared Faith Helps Bridge Partisan Divide
WASHINGTON (JTA) — When the two congressmen representing Memphis meet on the plane home from the nation’s capital, the lawmakers catch up on what they have in common: the NCAA Division I basketball team at the University of Memphis; mutual friends in the legal communities; and what’s up at Temple Israel. Despite a shared affection…
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Breaking News Meet Elaine Luria, The Navy Commander Running For Congress
Elaine Luria announced her candidacy for Virginia’s 2nd congressional district less than a month ago and has already landed a New York Times profile featuring her and two other female Naval Academy graduates who are now running for office as Democrats. A 20-year Navy veteran who reached the rank of commander and whose last deployment…
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The Schmooze Feminists Have ‘Snake-Filled Heads,’ Missouri Senate Candidate Announces
The condition of our nation’s democracy is no joke, but sometimes you have to take your laughs of despair where you can get them. The rogue-ishly attractive, loathsomely misogynist Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Courtland Sykes specializes in this kind of unintentional end-of-days humor. His belief that feminists’s heads are full of snakes, his desire to…
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