Politics
by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor | Nov 13, 2018 | Baltimore, Local, Local Politics, News, Politics
Rachel Garbow Monroe, president and CEO of the Owings Mills-based Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, will co-chair the transition team for John A. Olszewski Jr., who was recently elected Baltimore County Executive. Olszewski, best known as “Johnny O,” announced... read more
by JTA | Nov 9, 2018 | National, National Politics, News, Politics
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from the hospital and is back at work a day after being admitted for broken ribs. “She is doing well and plans to work from home today,” Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg told the media on... read more
by Ben Sales, JTA | Nov 7, 2018 | Elections, National, National Politics, News, Politics
(JTA) — More than 75 percent of Jews voted for Democrats on an Election Day that was also good to Jewish congressional candidates. A poll conducted by GBA Strategies, a Democrat-aligned pollster, and commissioned by the liberal Israel lobby J Street, found that 76... read more
by Josefin Dolsten, JTA | Nov 7, 2018 | Elections, National, National Politics, News, Politics
(JTA) — Nov. 6’s midterm elections were hailed as a victory for gender parity, as an unprecedented number of women won bids to serve in Congress. More than 100 women were elected to serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate, according to final vote... read more
by Ben Sales, JTA | Nov 7, 2018 | Elections, National, National Politics, News, Politics
(JTA) — In the final weeks of the midterm election campaign, Republicans in six states targeted their Democratic opponents with attacks many saw as echoing anti-Semitic tropes. The attacks — mostly involving pictures of Jewish candidates clutching money — were... read more
by Ron Kampeas, JTA | Nov 7, 2018 | Elections, National, National Politics, News, Politics
WASHINGTON (JTA) — If you thought the first half of Donald Trump’s first term as president was volatile, think about the next two years: His hated opponents, the Democrats, are now weaponized. Returned to the majority after eight years, Democrats in the U.S. House of... read more
by JTA | Nov 6, 2018 | Elections, National, National Politics, News, Politics
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Elaine Luria, a Jewish Navy veteran running for Congress in a Virginia coastal district, and Max Rose, a Jewish Army veteran challenging for a House seat in New York’s Staten Island, each unseated Republican incumbents on Nov. 6. Luria was projected... read more
by JTA | Nov 6, 2018 | Elections, National, National Politics, News, Politics
(JTA) — Jared Polis will be the first Jewish governor of Colorado as well as the state’s first openly gay person elected to the post. The 43-year-old Democrat, who has been representing the state in the House of Representatives since 2009, is projected to beat... read more
by Ben Sales, JTA | Nov 6, 2018 | Elections, Local, Local Politics, Maryland, National, National Politics, News, Politics
(JTA) — Democrats took control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections held Nov. 6, with Jewish Congress members poised to take key leadership roles. Republicans looked to increase their majority in the Senate. Five Jewish Democrats are set to chair... read more
by Ron Kampeas, JTA | Nov 6, 2018 | Elections, National, National Politics, News, Politics
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Get out the vote: It’s a biennial ritual for Jewish groups. But not for humans, for ideas — the state and local ballot initiatives that rarely get the level of attention that rock ’em sock ’em candidate battles do. This year is different, organizers... read more
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