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EST 1917

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A pro-Obama group of rabbis says recent statements by John McCain and Sarah Palin are “creeping toward hate speech” and blasts the Republican Jewish Coalition for using McCarthyite tactics. In a statement released Thursday, the group of 562 rabbis states that “increasingly those speaking on behalf of the McCain campaign have been demonizing Senator Obama […]

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If Wednesday night’s bipartisan debate-watching party at a Washington, D.C. synagogue can be used as a gauge, then the newspaper ads might as well stop – everyone in the Jewish community has already decided who they’re voting for next month. When the 125 people in attendance at Washington Hebrew Congregation were asked if any of […]

Now that the debates are over, the sukkah portion of the presidential campaign begins in just a few hours. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will both be visiting sukkot this evening on behalf of their party’s presidential candidates. First, at 6:15 p.m., Nadler will speak about the Obama-Biden ticket to invited […]

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