CLAREMONT, New Hampshire (AP) — Chris Christie is the Republican presidential candidate to beat in second-to-vote New Hampshire — so say the super PACs helping the New Jersey governor's rivals.
Marco Rubio's backers recently put $1 million into anti-Christie advertising, according to filings with federal election regulators.
A recently released report by Israel's National Insurance Institute shows that 1.7 million Israelis live under the poverty line, including 23 percent of the country's seniors and 13.7 percent of working families, up from 7 percent in 1999.
Those are the numbers that push Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein—founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship)—onto airplanes and then onto stages at packed auditoriums around the world, in order to raise awareness and funds. Though he made aliyah 13 years ago, Eckstein spends half of the year away from his Jerusalem home on the road promoting The Fellowship's mission.