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Fast Forward Amid budget cuts, Congress boosts funding for antisemitism envoy
The office, run by Deborah Lipstadt, has seen its budget nearly quadruple from $500,000 to $1.75 million since 2020
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Fast Forward Here’s What Jewish Leaders Said About Trump And Omar’s Dual Loyalty Comments
Updated August 22 President Trump’s remarks from the Oval Office on Tuesday, in which he claimed that Jews who voted for Democrats showed “either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” were condemned by a variety of Jewish figures and organizations. But in some cases, their initial reactions were different from their responses after…
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Forward 50 2018 Jacky Rosen
From Shul President To Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen has climbed the leadership ladder quickly. In 2016 she was her Las Vegas-area synagogue’s president, then in 2017 she was elected to Congress, before winning an even bigger national office — being elected senator for Nevada in 2018. She’s the first freshman congresswoman to ever win a…
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Fast Forward Jacky Rosen, Former Synagogue President, Wins Nevada Senate Seat
(JTA) — Jacky Rosen, a former synagogue president and a freshman Democratic Congresswoman from Nevada, defeated sitting Sen. Dean Heller. Rosen defeated Heller with 50.8 percent of the vote to Heller’s 45 percent. Rosen, a former software developer, was talked into running by former Sen. Harry Reid, who believed she was the likeliest challenger to…
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News Will Jacky Rosen’s Stint As Synagogue President Make Her A Better Senator?
When Nevada Senate candidate Jacky Rosen was thinking about running for Congress in 2016, she called her rabbi for advice. “I thought about it and I thought about the skills necessary for someone to run for Congress,” Rabbi Sanford Akselrad of Congregation Ner Tamid, the largest Reform synagogue in Nevada, told the Forward. “I said…
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Fast Forward Obama Endorses Jewish Democratic Candidates In Key Midterm Races
Former president Barack Obama formally entered the midterm fray, endorsing more than 80 candidates, including some Jewish contenders who are critical for Democrats’ hopes to retake Congress. Obama tweeted Wednesday afternoon that he was “proud to endorse such a wide and impressive array of Democratic candidates,” including Senate hopeful Jacky Rosen in Nevada and House…
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Breaking News WATCH: Trump Insults ‘Wacky Jacky’ Rosen In Nevada
Channeling the skills that he honed over seasons of “The Apprentice” (though not the skills of civil debate), President Donald Trump went to Nevada to stump for Republican senate candidate Dean Heller. Brushing off the immigration furor that has surrounded his administration for the past week, he chose to tease and play with the crowd…
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