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News GOP Tries To Embarrass Democrats By Pushing Israel Vote During Shutdown
It’s the first vote of the new United States Senate – but it’s doubling as a preview of the 2020 presidential campaign. Senate Democrats on Tuesday night blocked a bill sponsored by Republican Senator Marco Rubio that includes aid for Israel and also controversial curbs on supporting the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction…
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Opinion The Jewish Vote is Important – But Not In The Way You Think
For such a tiny group, we Jews sure manage to cause a ruckus. According to the Pew Research Center, Jewish adults make up a mere 2.2% of the U.S. population. And yet, as we head into another presidential cycle, there is already talk about the importance of the Jewish vote. Let’s step back and tackle…
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News Simcha Felder Is Kingmaker No More — Faces ‘Different World’ In Albany
In Tuesday evening’s New York state Senate elections, there were winners and there were losers. And there was Simcha. Democrats won the chamber. Republicans lost it. And Simcha Felder, who represents the Orthodox Brooklyn neighborhoods of Boro Park and Midwood, lost his status as the most powerful man in New York state politics. With Democrats…
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Fast Forward Rashida Tlaib’s West Bank Family Celebrates Her Historic Win
BEIT UR AL-FAUQA, West Bank (Reuters) – Tuning into the news at dawn on Wednesday, the extended family of Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress, celebrated her victory in their home in the Israeli occupied West Bank. Tlaib, 44, a Democrat, ran virtually unopposed in Michigan’s 13th congressional…
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Fast Forward 80% Of Jews Vote Democratic — Far More Than Other Faiths
The overwhelming majority of American Jews voted Democrat in Tuesday’s elections, a CNN poll found. Nearly 80% of Jewish voters polled voted Democrat, while 17% voted Republican. Jews also voted Democrat at the highest rate of any other religion included in the poll, which included several denominations of Christianity. The poll did not include a…
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Fast Forward Adam Schiff Vows That Democratic House Will Investigate Trump The Way GOP Never Did
Adam Schiff is vowing oversight of for Donald Trump that the GOP “completely abdicated,” he said on MSNBC Tuesday evening. Schiff said he planned to use the power of the House Intelligence Committee — of which he will become the chair — to investigate the Trump administration, something the GOP did not use it for…
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Opinion Trump Has Bitterly Divided Us — And Election Offers No Easy Answers
The Democratic ripple that wasn’t quite a wave on Tuesday restored some balance to America’s dangerously lopsided political system. It ensures that at least one chamber of the Congress will fulfill its constitutional duties and serve as a genuine check on the executive branch. It broke some of the racial barriers and glass ceilings that…
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Fast Forward Early Call! Republican Admits Jewish Democrat Will Grab His Southern California Seat
Darrell Issa announced Tuesday morning on Fox News that the race to replace him would be won by the Democratic challenger, Mike Levin. Issa represents California’s 49th Congressional district, which covers a long coastal stretch between San Diego and Long Beach. Diane L. Harkey is the Republican running to replace him. “My district was never…
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Culture A Jewish prophet of the 1980s would be horrified to see that we didn’t heed his warnings
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Opinion With killing of Hezbollah’s chief, Israel occupies the inarguable moral high ground
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Opinion This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory
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Film & TV How Leonard Cohen — and a Yom Kippur prayer — inspired a coming-of-age epic
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Opinion A year after Oct. 7, Israel has the chance to remake its future — for better or worse
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Opinion Campus protests defined the year since Oct. 7. Could they actually change U.S. policy?
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Special Report At the kibbutz hit hardest on Oct. 7, a wrenching debate over how to rebuild
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