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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 370

voting rights

Simcha Rothman, head of the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, leads a committee meeting at the Knesset on February 22, 2023. At right is the committee's legal adviser Gur Bligh (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 23, 2023, 6:51 am
Judicial overhaul will leave the right to vote unprotected, admits MK leading effort
Simcha Rothman tells Knesset legal adviser that curbing judges’ overreach takes priority over safeguarding rights
By Jeremy Sharon
Abi Dauber Sterne and Robbie Gringrass, educators and authors of 'Stories for the Sake of Argument' (Courtesy PR)
May 13, 2022, 1:58 pm
Podcast: Two educators teach us how to love a good argument
Veteran educators Abi Dauber Sterne and Robbie Gringras talk about the art of fighting and the stories that inspire disagreement
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Local Jewish communities in the Bay Area show their support for the LGBTQ community at the San Francisco pride parade. (Daniel Dreifuss/Flash 90/File)
February 21, 2022, 3:47 am
US Federations revises agenda, restoring gun control, LGBT rights to priority list
New policy document also vows support for ‘bipartisan approaches to ensure voter access’ after omission of items by JFNA trigged queries from constituents
By Ron Kampeas
US President Joe Biden (second right) and Vice President Kamala Harris (far right) pause with Martin Luther King III and other members of the King family after a wreath laying at the tomb of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and his wife Coretta Scott King, on Tuesday, January 11, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP/Patrick Semansky)
January 11, 2022, 10:59 pm
Invoking history, Biden launches high-risk gambit for voting rights reforms
President, traveling to Georgia amid sinking poll numbers, describes bills as ‘turning point,’ but passing them will require using ‘nuclear option’ to defuse GOP opposition
By Sebastian Smith
Vanessa Wruble is one of the organizers behind an August 2021 march for voting rights. (Mark Hartman/JTA)
August 28, 2021, 6:31 am
Meet the longtime Jewish activist behind this weekend’s US voting rights marches
Vanessa Wruble, who withdrew from Women’s March due to antisemitism among leadership, is channeling activism in March On in favor of expanded US voting rights
By PHILISSA CRAMER
The Virginia Republican Party State Central Committee votes on a number of measures at a virtual meeting, including a vote on whether to allow a religious exemption for Saturday convention voting, April 22, 2021. (Facebook)
April 28, 2021, 9:38 am
Reversing decision, Virginia Republicans allow Shabbat observers to vote early
With party election set for Saturday, local GOP will allow Orthodox Jews to place ballot for gubernatorial nominee a day early, after request from Republican Jewish Coalition
By Ron Kampeas
Children play as voters wait in line to cast their ballots at Waldens Ridge Emergency Services building on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, in Walden, Tennessee. (AP/Ben Margot)
November 9, 2020, 9:50 am
High-stakes Trump-Biden contest could smash US turnout records
As of Sunday, tallied votes account for 62% of the eligible voting-age population, more than Obama’s 2008 election, and may eventually be highest since women afforded vote
By Nicholas Riccardi
Illustrative: A voter, right, checks in with an election worker before casting her ballot in the Pennsylvania primary in Philadelphia, June 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
October 26, 2020, 4:18 am
How US Jewish groups are protecting voting access in 2020
Mobilizing legal teams to report voter suppression, educating voters and helping people get signed up, the organizations say they are united in fighting minority disenfranchisement
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative: Richard Lynch drops his mail-in ballot into a drop box in Hackensack, N.J., Tuesday, July 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
July 24, 2020, 9:23 pm
‘Life or death’: Jewish groups sound alarm on protecting right to vote by mail
Many Jewish groups — political and religious — have aligned on the issue this year and are lobbying for widespread mail-in voting, saying it is crucial in a time of pandemic
By Ron Kampeas
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, shown in May 2019, said 'The absentee ballot is more of a political issue than it is anything.' (Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images/ via JTA)
May 8, 2020, 1:17 am
Missouri rabbis call mail-in voting religious imperative after governor bars it
After Gov. Mike Parson says the issue is a partisan one, Jewish leaders across the spectrum of observance say that voting in person during a pandemic violates Torah law
By Ron Kampeas
Jill Karofsky celebrates her election to Wisconsin's Supreme Court at a social distance outside her Madison home, April 13, 2020. (Screenshot/ via JTA)
April 23, 2020, 1:30 pm
Election of Wisconsin Jewish judge triggers Trump tirade against absentee voting
Winning by 10% in a neck-and-neck state, Jill Karofsky shows that voters may be fed up with the Republican coronavirus response — and will make it known come November
By Ron Kampeas
During the 1930s in Yaphank, New York, members of the Nazi party march through the Long Island town, where they also organized a pro-Hitler summer camp (Public domain)
August 13, 2017, 11:29 am
American laws against ‘coloreds’ influenced Nazi racial planners
With neo-Nazis and white supremacists violently protesting in Charlottesville, Virginia, echoes of the country’s awkward history of ties to Nazism
By Matt Lebovic
Voters line up outside the Fiesta supermarket in Austin, Texas, November 8, 2016. (Ricky Ben-David/Times of Israel)
May 31, 2017, 11:53 pm
Jewish activists condemn Trump executive order on voting fraud as step toward ‘restrictions’
While rigged elections are virtually nonexistent, liberal leaders say new federal commission is a challenge to democracy
By Cathryn J. Prince
People vote for the next US president in the general election at a polling station in a school gymnasium in New York, November 8, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / Robyn Beck)
November 8, 2016, 4:53 pm
Long lines but few glitches as America goes to the polls
Despite anxiety over voter intimidation, fraud and unsubstantiated claims of rigging in run-up to Election Day, morning brings relative quiet nationwide
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY
Chicago residents cast ballots for the November 8 election at an early voting site on October 18, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)
November 8, 2016, 2:20 pm
Competing claims of voter fraud, intimidation raise tensions
Fears escalated amid Trump’s unsupported warnings of a rigged election
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY
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