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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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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By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil Jerry Falwell “stamped out” anti-Semitism in the Republican Party, said Michael Sean Winters, a reporter for

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By Nathan Guttman This election cycle has officially ended the decades-long debate over whether Israel should be an American campaign

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By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil From the announcement of President Obama’s controversial new contraception policy, to Rick Santorum’s unexpected triple-win on

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By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil While Mitt Romney has secured his front-runner status in the contest for the Republican presidential nomination,

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By Jeffrey Rosen Of all the issues that could be significant in the 2012 presidential election, the future of church-state

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