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Nachama Soloveichik, an heir to America’s leading Orthodox rabbinic dynasty, is caught between two calendars that rule her life. According to the Jewish calendar, Tuesday will mark the beginning of...
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Glenn Beck is obsessed with American history, and he’s helped make David Barton the most influential historian in America. A wiry, boyish Texas fundamentalist and master revisionist, Barton specializes...
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Representative Eric Cantor, the six-term Virginia congressman, is not a brilliant strategist or a visionary policymaker. He is, however, a very good politician. At 47, he cuts a trim figure in his dark...
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We established last week that the desire to cut foreign aid to Israel is limited to a very small fringe in the Republican Party. However, as part of a broader plan to lower deficits by cutting federal...
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Fred Karger, a handsome 61-year-old who looks like a Semitic John Slattery, does not actually think that he is going to be the first gay Jewish Republican nominee for president. That does not mean,...
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Fred Karger, the Jewish, openly gay Republican presidential candidate profiled in Tablet in April, has been barred from participating in Fox News’ presidential debate Thursday. A Fox representative...
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For those of you not keeping track at home during last night’s Republican presidential candidates’ debate in Las Vegas, Israel came up a dozen times—and, thanks to some newsy questions from host...
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One month after being excluded from the Republican Jewish Coalition’s forum for presidential hopefuls, openly gay Republican candidate Fred Karger says his request for a booth at the Conservative...
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Yossi Gestetner, the former New York State GOP Director of Jewish Outreach (as of 20 hours ago) has nearly 3,800 followers on Twitter. There he lets his conservative flag fly, not hesitating to comment...
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Last week, various press organizations were agog at the news that Israel and the Obama Administration were at odds over Egypt in the wake of the military ouster of the elected Muslim Brotherhood...
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It’s time to welcome yet another politician into the ‘open mouth, insert foot’ club for the erroneous use of Holocaust metaphors when trying to make a political point. Our newest inductee is Tennessee...
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Texas Senator Ted Cruz has a long way to go to make it to the ballot in 2016. But as Jonathan Chait points out, the presidential hopeful has a plan, laid out plainly in a new National Review profile of...
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Paul Berman first published this piece in Tablet on December 7, 2015, two months before a single vote was cast in the Iowa Caucus or the New Hampshire primary. We think you should re-read it. —the...
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The Republican platform’s language relating to Israel was adopted by the party’s platform committee on July 12. In past elections, the official Republican and Democratic positions on Israel and the...
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Nachama Soloveichik, an heir to America’s leading Orthodox rabbinic dynasty, is caught between two calendars that rule her life. According to the Jewish calendar, Tuesday will mark the beginning of...
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Glenn Beck is obsessed with American history, and he’s helped make David Barton the most influential historian in America. A wiry, boyish Texas fundamentalist and master revisionist, Barton specializes...
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Even President Barack Obama’s fiercest detractors will admit that his term in office has been judged a consequential one. There is, of course, the landmark legislation that he has passed; a $787...
View ArticleArticle 12
Representative Eric Cantor, the six-term Virginia congressman, is not a brilliant strategist or a visionary policymaker. He is, however, a very good politician. At 47, he cuts a trim figure in his dark...
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