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Fast Forward Biden Says Sanders’s Plan To Withdraw Aid To Israel Is ‘Bizarre’
(JTA) — Joe Biden told voters in Iowa that support for withdrawing military aid from Israel over its interactions with the Palestinians is “bizarre.” Biden was attacking Sen. Bernie Sanders, a fellow Democratic candidate for the 2020 presidential nomination in 2020, and others. “In terms of Bernie and others who talk about dealing with Zionism,…
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Fast Forward Biden: Putting Conditions On Aid To Israel Is ‘Absolutely Outrageous’
(JTA) — Presidential candidate Joe Biden says it would be a “gigantic mistake” to condition aid to Israel on stopping settlement expansion. The former vice president told a Wall Street Journal reporter it would be “absolutely outrageous” for the United States to take that approach — a position that puts him at odds with his…
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Fast Forward Biden Fundraising Letter Features Rabbi’s Story About Senator Making Shiva Call
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Delaware rabbi wrote a fundraising endorsement for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign citing his appearance at the shiva for a constituent of modest means. Rabbi Michael Beals was leading a minyan in 2006 for Sylvia Greenhouse, who lived in a senior living facility in Claymont, a town at the northern tip of…
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Fast Forward Biden, Sanders and Warren Condemn Israel’s Ban on Tlaib and Omar
(JTA) — Democratic presidential front-runners Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have all joined the list of politicians and organizations that have criticized Israel’s decision on Thursday to bar Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering the country. “I have always been a stalwart supporter of Israel — a vital partner that shares…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Biden Confronts Breitbart Journalist Claiming Trump Didn’t Praise Charlottesville Marchers
Former vice president Joe Biden was fired up on Thursday while arguing with a journalist from the right-wing website Breitbart who claimed that Biden had mischaracterized President Trump’s comments about “very fine people on both sides” in Charlottesville after the 2017 white nationalist riot there. After Biden descended from a podium after his 20-minute speech…
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Fast Forward Biden, Buttigieg, Booker Respond To IfNotNow About Occupation
(JTA) — Democratic presidential front runner and former vice president Joe Biden told a member of the IfNotNow Jewish anti-occupation movement that the “occupation is a human rights crisis,” and called for a two-state solution. He was one of three major Democratic presidential candidates who were ambushed by Jewish anti-occupation activists from the IfNotNow organization…
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The Schmooze Who Is Joe Biden’s New Jewish Daughter-In-Law, Melissa Cohen?
In the 2016 presidential elections, it was said that whichever candidate won — Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton — the president would have Jewish grandchildren. Both Trump and Clinton have a child who married a Jewish person. Joe Biden, a hopeful for the 2020 Democratic bid, would also bring Jewish in-laws to the White House….
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News 5 Jewish Things To Know About Joe Biden
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joe Biden, a born and raised Roman Catholic who likes to cross himself when making a point, knows what faith he would be if he were ever overcome with doubt about his own. “If I’m going to switch, I know where I’m going,” the former vice president said in 2016 at an…
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