News reports indicate that you were recently endorsed by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose record on Israel is deeply distressing and disappointing. Following your expression of gratitude regarding her endorsement, I began looking into your position, vis-a-vis Israel.
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By AVI WEISS
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6/18/20
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Rabbi Weiss, I hope this finds you in good health and in good spirits. Thank you for writing your letter. It was very informative, and will help me to be the best representative I can be for everyone in our district, if I am fortunate enough to win.
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By JAMAAL BOWMAN
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6/18/20
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I’m Jamaal Bowman. I’ve been an educator for the last 23 years in New York’s public schools, and I’m a Democrat running to represent Riverdale in Congress in New York’s 16th Congressional District.
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By JAMAAL BOWMAN
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6/14/20
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June 23 is the Democratic primary election, and I am asking our community to vote in big numbers to re-elect me and our local team of Democratic Party officials who are leading our drive to elect Democrats up and down the line — from president to the most local party positions like Democratic district leaders Randi Martos and Eric Dinowitz, and Democratic state committee member Helen Morik.
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By JEFFREY DINOWITZ
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6/14/20
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"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.” These heartless, cynical and oft-quoted words are reputed to have first been spoken by Josef Stalin in 1947 in reference to a famine that was inflicting unspeakable human suffering in Ukraine.
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By SAM BROMBERG
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6/7/20
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About those flag pins … The one that Trump wears, a sine qua non accessory of so many of his sycophants and other politicos. Wearing a flag pin is analogous with flag-waving. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, flag-waving is an “ostentatiously emotional display of patriotism or factionalism (synonyms: jingoistic, nationalistic, super-patriotic, ultra-nationalistic, chauvinistic), a propaganda technique to justify actions based on that connection.
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By IRENE DIAZ-REYES
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6/7/20
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Within the journalism community, there’s outrage over the assaults our fellow journalists have endured covering the unrest in America sparked by the death of a black man, George Floyd, in police custody in Minneapolis.
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By JUDY PATRICK
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6/5/20
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Early in the morning of April 4, about 4 a.m., just into springtime — the most pregnant of seasons — a 55-year-old Bronx man with diabetes, who found out he had been infected with the COVID-19 virus, called the police on himself.
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By MICHAEL GOLD
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5/31/20
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COVID-19 has brought New York to its knees. It has taken tens of thousands of lives too soon, left millions of New Yorkers without work, and the state struggling with a more than $15 billion budget deficit.
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By DAVID MIRTZ
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5/31/20
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I’m 17 years old, and a first-generation Senegalese American. As a rising sophomore, I knew I wanted to do something with my summer. An internship and other summer programs would be difficult to secure because I had only finished my first year of high school. So I applied to the only option I knew about: New York City’s Summer Youth Employment Program.
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By NDEYE THIOUBOU
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5/24/20
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