Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's looking on the bright side. But the fiasco is important for more than what it does to the Jewish vote; it's important for what it says about Clinton's instincts. A nimble candidate would have found a way to respond quickly. And a strong campaign manager might have talked her out of the visit. But Clinton has no manager and is her own strategist. Faced with howling tabloids, she retreated behind the haughty protective screen of her First Ladyhood. "It is unfortunate," she sniffed, "that there are any questions about what was a very straightforward occasion...
...Remaking herself won't be easy, especially in a year when the press is busy gauging each candidate's authenticity. So far, her attempts to turn herself into a New Yorker have been amateurish. When the Chicago native proclaimed herself a closet Yankees fan, when the Methodist disclosed her Jewish roots, when the advocate for poor children came out in favor of milk price supports--these moves made her seem craven, ham-fisted. When the progressive copied her husband's tactic of using party soft money to finance early TV spots, she looked no better than he. And when Bill...
...announcement was designed to end speculation that the media brouhaha over anti-Israeli rhetoric uttered in Mrs. Clinton's presence during her Middle East trip would torpedo her campaign. Despite New York's large Jewish vote and the tabloid media's best efforts, Suha Arafat's remarks are hardly likely to turn into one of those "-gate" tropes that could doom her campaign (the Palestinians hate the Israelis - who knew?), especially after Prime Minister Ehud Barak gave her a ringing endorsement as a friend of Israel. But what the incident may have shown is that the trappings of First Ladyhood...
Confronted with a dilemma of Solomonic proportions - whether to allow the construction of a mosque adjacent to one of the most sacred Christian sites in the Holy Land - the Israeli government ended up doing what was politically expedient. Israel Wednesday rejected the Vatican?s accusation that the Jewish state was fomenting religious division by permitting the new building next to the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth. "In the end it was simply a political decision," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "There are a lot more Muslim voters in Israel than there are Christian voters. That's what...
Ross, the first Jewish city councilor since 1951, recently won an election against an established politician through a quirky, volunteer-driven campaign...