COVID-19 Archives

20 Mar

Bud Hockenberg (IA): ‘The Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic has Increased My Support for Him’

April 16, 2021
By Moment
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Bud Hockenberg (92), a Republican from Des Moines IA, is the former president of the Des Moines Jewish Federation and a founding member of what...

20 Mar

Mark Goldhaber

Mark Goldhaber (NC): ‘It Has Made Me Feel Better About the President’

April 16, 2021
By Moment
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Mark Goldhaber (67), a Republican from Raleigh, NC, is active in the Jewish Federation and AIPAC. He previously worked for a Republican member of Congress and...

20 Mar

Nina Jacobs Stanley

Nina Stanley (OH): ‘Trump is a True Threat to Our Wellbeing’

April 16, 2021
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Nina Stanley (68) is a Democrat from Cincinnati, OH. Her “very liberal” leanings haven’t budged since May 4, 1970, when bullets fired by the Ohio National...

20 Mar

Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith (OH): ‘The Federal Response Has Been Pretty Good Under the Circumstances’

April 16, 2021
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Andrew Smith (57), a Republican from Columbus, OH, grew up in Maine where he was raised Conservative, “because that’s pretty much all we had up there.”...

20 Mar

Alan Zimmerman

Alan Zimmerman (VA): ‘This Tragic Failure Will Define Trump’s Pitiful Legacy’

April 16, 2021
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Alan Zimmerman (61), a Democrat from Charlottesville, VA, was president of Congregation Beth Israel in Charlottesville during the Unite the Right march in August 2017. Zimmerman...

20 Mar

Beth Bendheim

Beth Bendheim (VA): ‘The Federal Response is Unacceptable’

July 4, 2023
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Beth Bendheim (50), a Democrat from Richmond, VA, was the development director for a Jewish day school in Richmond prior to working in finance. She also...

20 Mar

Ariana Mentzel

Ariana Mentzel (MI): ‘The President’s Remarks Have Been Ridiculous’

April 16, 2021
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Ariana Mentzel (34), a Democrat from Beverly Hills, MI, leads college students in conversations about anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the Detroit Center for...

20 Mar

Stuart Baum

Stuart Baum (MI): ‘Many of My Peers are Failing to Take the Threat Seriously’

April 16, 2021
By Moment
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Stuart Baum (22), a Democrat from Detroit, MI, attended Jewish day school growing up and is a recent graduate of Wayne State University where he served...

20 Mar

*Ongoing Findings, 000 JPVP, Coronavirus, Latest

Voters Disagree on Administration’s Response to Coronavirus, but Agree on Seriousness of the Crisis

With the nationwide near-total shutdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic, we asked participants in the Jewish Political Voices Project (JPVP) what they thought about...

20 Mar

Coronavirus, Israel, Latest

Ultra-Orthodox Communities See Israel’s New Social Cohesion as a Threat

April 16, 2021
By Eetta Prince-Gibson
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Much of the time, Israeli society is fractured by differences and resentments. Sometimes, we define ourselves more by whom we’re against than what we stand...

20 Mar

Latest, Lighter fare

Recipes from a Quarantined Cook | Lentil Kale Tomato Stew

April 16, 2021
By Marcy Epstein
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Moment will post a new recipe every day. Each recipe has been chosen for children 10 and over (under 10, please cook with a grownup!) and each will offer variations for dietary needs and palette. Every recipe will take less than 30 minutes to prepare and less than three hours to cook.

16 Mar

Coronavirus, Latest

Will Coronavirus Bring Politics to a Standstill?

March 20, 2020
By Nathan Guttman
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The nation is shutting down, its economy is grinding to a halt, but politics, so it seems, is still showing signs of vitality, perhaps even of growth.