Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of political elections.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of political elections.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of political elections.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of political elections.
Lucille Goldman passed away last week at 91, a few days after casting her absentee vote for Hillary Clinton. After her shiva ended this morning, Lucille’s granddaughter, Adina Lerner, matched a blue pantsuit with one of Lucille’s necklaces, and took a walk down the block to see President Clinton. That’s the intersection of President Street…
At the end of an election filled with divisiveness, Yosef Rapaport didn’t know what to expect when he tweeted that he had dedicated his vote to the American Muslim soldier Captain Humayun Khan — the American Muslim soldier killed in combat whose father Khizr spoke movingly about his sacrifice at the Democratic National Convention. That…
The Jew hatred that has become such a striking feature of the internet made its first major breakthrough in early June. That was when users realized that neo-Nazis had developed a way to mark the presence of Jews on social media by enclosing their names in a set of triple parentheses, also known as the…
Florida is a key swing state in the 2016 presidential election and home to roughly 500,000 Jews (7% of the population), a significant demographic that both Democrats and Republicans see as key to winning the Sunshine State. In 2000, the now infamous hanging chad scandal led to thousands of Jewish voters mistakenly voting for Pat…
When it comes to anti-Semitic dog whistles, some Donald Trump supporters are outdoing the campaign. At a Monday rally in Sarasota, Florida, a young man at the candidate’s rally told a reporter with The Young Turks that he thought the Republican nominee would “end Zionism.” “I like Donald Trump as president, and that’s what we…
Pam Lipshitz is having an anxious birthday. Stopped outside her Park Slope polling site on Tuesday morning, the Jewish publicist told the Forward that she was worried sick over the election. “Literally scared,” she said. Despite it being her birthday, Lipshitz’s plans were subdued: Work, then home to watch the election results with her husband,…
Voter turnout is high across New York City this morning, Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters, speaking on a street corner outside of his Brooklyn polling site just after 10 a.m. “I really like what I’m seeing,” de Blasio said . “It certainly augurs well for Hillary Clinton that her home state is turning out…
(JTA) — If you’re a Jewish-American liberal who believes that Donald Trump could never become president, British Jews have one word of warning: Brexit. Following the shocking referendum vote in June favoring a British exit from the European Union, many British Jews now believe that their liberal circles and cosmopolitan lifestyles had left them largely…
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