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US / Elections

J Street-Backed Congressional Candidate Defeated in Maryland Democratic Primaries

By Dmitriy Shapiro (JNS)

Glenn Ivey beats former Rep. Donna Edwards in state’s 4th Congressional District • Ivey to run for largely black suburb vacated by Rep. Anthony Brown (D-Md.) against Republican primary winner Jeff Warner, a pastor.

Headline / Israel / Politics

Labor Party Results In, Herzog Out

By Jewish Press News Desk

Another Labor party chairman is rejected after just one term.

US / Elections / News Briefs

Clinton Losing Ground to Sanders in New Hampshire and Iowa

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Hillary has become a magnet for bad news, but it will take a lot more to beat her.

NY / Politics / News Briefs

NYC Mayoral Candidates Heavily Courting Orthodox Jewish Voters

By Jewish Press Staff

Approximately 25 percent of the New York City electorate is Jewish, and a growing number are Orthodox.

HADAR

Will the Likud Remain Democratic?

By Daniel Tauber

The institution of party primaries in Israel needs to be expanded not shrunk, so that the government will be under the supervision of the people from which it derives power and the moral authority to govern.

News Briefs / Israel Elections 5773

No More Likud Primaries

By Jewish Press News Desk

Bibi want to block democracy within the Likud.

HADAR / Israel Elections 5773

Understanding Israel's 'Deal System'

By Daniel Tauber

While the Israeli media wrongly claimed that the Likud had made an extreme shift to the right in recent primaries, some commentators were correcting in observing the existence of a deal-system. (Part IV in a series about the Likud primaries).

News Briefs / Israel Elections 5773

Likud's First Lady: Adopt Levy Report, Expand Construction

By Daniel Tauber

Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely celebrated her victory in the Likud primaries.

Politics / The Knesset / Israel Elections 5773

Results in from Labor Primaries

By Jewish Press News Desk

Labor party primary results are in, and Shelly Yechimovitch did not come out a winner.

Politics / News Briefs

Likud Primaries on Sunday

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Likud party is holding primaries on Sunday. The race is going to be a closely watched, as both candidates and voters look to see how the fallout from Operation Amud Anan affect the outcome. With so many Israelis upset with how the operation against Hamas concluded, that anger might provide a boost for the […]

Moshe Feiglin

Whose Watchdogs Are They?

By Moshe Feiglin

It is morning and my car glides down the mountains of the Shomron into the smog of greater Tel Aviv. Another crazy day of running in the primaries is about to begin. My cell phone rings. A young, determined voice is on the other end.

Politics / The Knesset / Israel Elections 5773

Likud Set to Approve Primary Elections Scheme, Barak Excluded

By Daniel Tauber

The method of the primaries for the Likud's Knesset list was drafted by the Likud's Constitutional Committee last night and is set to be approved by the party's Central Committee this evening in Ganei HaTa'aruchah in Tel Aviv. The scheme does not include the reserving of secure spots on the list - spots within the number of seats Likud is certain to win - for candidates chosen by Prime Minister and Party Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu. It was rumored that Netanyahu wanted such spots for Defense Minister Ehud Barak and possibly other members of Barak's Independence faction which broke off from Labor.

Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset

Two Rivals Unite to Push Likud MK List to the Right of Netanyahu (updated)

By Jewish Press Staff

At an election event held in the backyard of Moshe Feiglin in Karnei Shomron, a new alliance has been announced.

Op-Eds

Drama in the 'Jewish Home' Party

By Yoel Meltzer

In less than three months time the Jewish Home Party, formerly known as the National Religious Party (NRP), will be holding its first ever internal primaries.

Interviews and Profiles

An Interview with Ayelet Shaked, Secular Candidate for HaBayit HaYehudi

By Yoel Meltzer

The co-founder and former chairman of the MyIsrael (Yisrael Sheli) national movement, the recipient of the 2012 Abramowitz Israeli Prize for Media Criticism and a close associate of Naftali Bennett – the two worked together in the office of Benjamin Netanyahu prior to the 2009 elections – Shaked is raising some eyebrows due to the fact that she, unlike Bennett, is a secular candidate for HaBayit Hayehudi -a traditionally religious party.

News Briefs

Adelson Gives Romney PAC $10 Million

By Jewish Press News Desk

According to the Wall Street Journal, chairman and chief executive of Las Vegas Sands Corp billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who fueled Newt Gingrich’s presidential bid, is now giving $10 million to the super PAC Restore Our Future, which supports presumptive  GOP nominee Mitt Romney. It is the largest single donation to Romney’s coffer to date. By […]

News Briefs

Ron Paul Halts Campaign, Keeps Delegates

By JTA

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul has effectively given up his presidential campaign but will not give up his delegates to Mitt Romney. Paul, a Texas Republican, said he would no longer compete in his party's primaries, leaving Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, the only viable candidate for the GOP nod still running. Romney remains about 200 […]

US

Santorum Continues to Challenge Romney for Republican Nomination, Wins Two More States

By Jewish Press Staff Writer

Thus far, Romney has received the votes of 494 Republican delegates to Santorum's 251, while Gingrich trails far behind with 131. A candidate needs 1,144 delegates to win the Republican nomination.

Moshe Feiglin

Why I Am Running For Head Of Likud

By Moshe Feiglin

There we, Manhigut Yehudit’s strategy team, sat for our first strategy meeting ahead of the upcoming primaries. “According to Likud law, primaries for the party chairmanship will be held in about a year,” I said, “and we have to prepare now.”

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter III

By Ruchama Feuerman

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