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Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and the Jewish Take on the 2016 Election, and the Hereville Books

This month on the podcast we’re talking about Judaism and the presidental election. Bernie Sanders, the first serious Jewish candidate for President of the United States, is seen by some as not Jewish enough, while Donald Trump eschews the usual Republican stances on Israel, and is seen by some as fascistic and anti-Semitic. In our second segment we’re talking about the Hereville books, a series of graphic novels whose protagonist is an ultra-Orthodox girl with super powers.

Further reading

Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump and the Jews
Sanders keeps his Judaism in the background, irking U.S. Jews by Rachel Zoll and Josef Federman on PBS.org
Bernie Sanders Keeps Talking About Being Jewish. Why Won’t We Listen? by JJ Abrams in the Forward
Bernie Sanders Is Jewish, but He Doesn’t Like to Talk About It by Joseph Berger in the New York Times
Muslim Student Asks About Islamophobia from Bernie 2016
White supremacist says he will air interview with Donald Trump Jr. JTA
Where Donald Trump stands on Israel and the Jews by Ben Harris in JTA
After Donald Trump wavers on David Duke, ADL publishes candidates’ guide to racists by JTA
How Republican Jews Utterly Failed To Prevent Rise of ‘Toxic’ Donald Trump by Noam Neusner in the Forward
What Kind of Jew Is Bernie Sanders? by Jay Michaelson in the Daily Beast.

Hereville books
But them on Amazon or indiebound.
Barry Deutsch on Hereville in Graphic Novel Reporter
Barry Deutsch in the Enchanted Inkpot
Reviews of the Hereville books from PJ Our Way
Marley Dias and #1000BlackGirlBooks

Endorsements

Zahava recommends the Netziv in general, and in particular his commentary on monarchy and democracy, found here via Sefaria.

Mimi recommends Bernie Sanders: a linguistic analysis by Joss Fong in Vox

Tamar recommends finding out what kind of end of life care your family members want via Five Wishes, recording family stories with the StoryCorp App, and Jewish chaplains in a stack of end of life related recommendations. Additionally, she recommends nutella rugelach. Use this recipe for the dough.