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YDA Jewish Caucus Announcements
Happy New Year! I hope that everybody’s year is off to a great start and you are surviving the cold and snow that seems to be hitting everywhere!
The YDA Jewish Caucus has three quick announcements.
First, the YDAJC is looking to fill some vacant positions in our leadership. Regional Representatives provide a vital role for the [...]
2/9/2010 1:07:04 AM | 0Comments | Permalink | Announcements + Events
Congratulations to YDAJC member Adam Weiss on new Job
Adam will be joining the U.S. Senate campaign of an Iowa Democrat as the Political Director:
2/9/2010 1:07:04 AM | 0Comments | Permalink | Announcements
YDAJC Embracing Social Media
The Young Democrats of America Jewish Caucus (http://www.JewishCaucus.org) is re-envigorating its online presence. This includes a new Twitter account, a Facebook group, a YahooGroup email list, and a WordPress blog (RSS).
2/9/2010 1:07:04 AM | 0Comments | Permalink | Announcements, blog, email, facebook, jewish, social media, twitter, YahooGroups, young democrats
YDAJC Launches RJCWatch
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 5, 2008
Contact:
Stephanie Hausner, (914)980-1747, secretary@yda.org, Executive Director, YDAJC
YDAJC Launches RJCWatch.org
Blog to Document the Inaccuracies and Hypocrisies of the Republican Jewish Coalition
New York, NY – Every year, the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) shows time and time again that it puts partisan interests above Jewish concerns and that they relentlessly attack anyone with whom they [...]
2/9/2010 1:07:04 AM | 3Comments | Permalink | Announcements + Events
Young Jewish Democrats Announce the Tom P. Lantos Award
(YDAJC Press Release)
An award in Memory and Honor of the Late Chairman Lantos
We have lost an incredible advocate and an amazing man and leader for not only the Jewish Community, but for all people. Chairman Tom Lantos leaves a legacy and commitment of fighting for many important issues that include, human rights, civil rights, ending [...]
2/9/2010 1:07:04 AM | 0Comments | Permalink | Announcements + Events, Award, Tom Lantos, tplaward
Tom Lantos: A Human Rights Hero Passes
(Washington Post)
ONE OF Tom Lantos’s first initiatives in Congress was to reward human rights work. Back in 1981, the Hungarian-born congressman sponsored a bill to offer honorary citizenship to Raoul Wallenberg, the missing Swedish diplomat who saved more than 100,000 Jews — including Mr. Lantos himself — from Nazi extermination. Mr. Lantos’s intention was to [...]
2/9/2010 1:07:04 AM | 0Comments | Permalink | Announcements + Events
Blue and energized
(Washington Jewish Week)
For Joanna Blotner, Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary was unusual. Instead of voting for the lesser of two evils, she was excited to be choosing between “the better of two greats.”
“They’re both such good candidates, I want to vote for both,” the 22-year-old District resident said on Thursday evening of last week at a [...]
2/9/2010 1:07:04 AM | 1Comments | Permalink | Announcements + Events
Jewish Senators Weigh in on Obama
(Forward)
Seven Jewish U.S. senators wrote an open letter to the Jewish community repudiating rumors about Sen. Barack Obama’s religion.
“We find it particularly abhorrent that these attacks are apparently being sent specifically to the Jewish community,” said the letter initiated by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and also signed by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Ben. Cardin (D-Md.), [...]
2/9/2010 1:07:04 AM | 0Comments | Permalink | Announcements + Events
‘Bad For The Jews’
(The Nation – Opinion piece by Eric Alterman)
Today’s topic is the paradox–or one of them, anyway–of American Jewish political behavior. No, it’s not that hoary old cliché that they “earn like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans.” Rather, it’s that they think like enlightened liberals yet allow belligerent right-wingers and neocons who frequently demonize, distort [...]
2/9/2010 1:07:04 AM | 0Comments | Permalink | Announcements + Events
Jews Poised To Play Key Role In Primaries
(New York Jewish Week) On the eve of the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses this week, strategists in both major political parties now believe Jewish voters could play a critical role in wide-open nomination battles this year — and possibly in a November general election that some experts say could be another squeaker.
“Usually the Jewish vote isn’t [...]