Understanding U.S. Politics and Jewish Influence with Moment 

Moment keeps you up to date on American politics and its Jewish stories. This section includes our Jewish Politics & Power (JPP) newsletter and coverage and analysis of U.S. news and politics.

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After the presidential election wrapped up last week, we asked our readers what they thought about the results. Read on

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While Jewish support for President Barack Obama’s re-election was lower than expected—69 percent, compared to 74 percent in 2008—Jews played

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Madeleine Albright became secretary of state in 1997. Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton followed. Has foreign policy become women’s work?

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Conservative lawsuits are targeting the Affordable Care Act under the guise of religious freedom ...

Moment editor Nadine Epstein sat down with Ed Koch at his office, just after the mayor arrived from his morning

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Republicans have made Israel their wedge issue. Democrats should make women's rights theirs. ...
Americans are tired of politicians who wear their religion on their sleeves. ...
Until the separation of church and state, the colonies were a hotbed of persecution. ...
You won’t see her in the debates, but the Green Party’s Jill Stein has a lot to say ...

INDEPENDENT Historically, the religious affiliation of a governmental leader has never been an issue for the Jewish people, as long

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By Marshall Breger In 2011, Sen. Joseph Lieberman suggested that U.S. nationals, “homegrown” or otherwise, be stripped of their citizenship

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By Letty Cottin Pogrebin In 1959, when I was 19, there was no birth control pill, doctors did not prescribe

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