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Senator George Allen confirmed his Jewish heritage, one day after refusing to answer that question during a debate. 9NEW NOW reporter Peggy Fox, a panelist at the debate, asked Allen "could you please tell us if your forebearers include Jews and at what point your Jewish identity ended." Fox's question was initially raised by reporters at the Jewish Daily Forward, a newspaper that had previously wondered if Allen was attempting to hide his heritage so as not to alienate some Virginia voters......... Reporter Peggy Fox says she stands by her question despite the fact that Allen says he found it...

George Allen and Jim Webb had another debate yesterday. Probably to the relief of many of you, I did not get to see it. But from the clip I did see, and the clip that everyone will see, Allen walked away from this fray the big winner. After running a sub-par campaign and his dreadful appearance on Sunday’s Meet the Press, Allen caught a huge break, a break that will likely turn the momentum of the race in his direction. One of the panelists, a woman named Peggy Fox, asked Allen, “It has been reported your grandfather Felix, whom you...

ARLINGTON, VA – U.S. Senator George Allen released the following statement this afternoon: “Yesterday, I found it especially reprehensible that a reporter would impugn the attitudes of my mother, as Ms. Peggy Fox did in her first question at the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce Senate debate. My mother and father both taught me to abhor bigotry, and Ms. Fox’s suggestion to the contrary was deeply offensive. “The notion peddled by the Webb campaign that I am somehow embarrassed by my heritage is equally offensive, and also absurd. “I was raised as a Christian and my mother was raised as...