What Do the Numbers of Jews in Congress Mean? Not Much
For all its political sophistication and savviness, the Jewish community still takes great interest in the bottom line: How many Jews got in?
Are We Turning the Tree of Life Massacre Into Another Partisan Issue?
This is the new normal for many members of the Pittsburgh Jewish community: splitting their time between mourning the dead and protesting the hate that brought about the tragedy.
It’s Jew v. Jew in New York’s Congressional Race
New York’s 1st Congressional District hosts this election cycle’s most Jewish race, and one that provides valuable insight into a question on the minds of many Republicans.
Democrats Bet on Jacky Rosen
No pressure, but the fate of Democratic dreams to win control of the U.S. Senate in November may hinge on one Nevada freshman congresswoman, whose previous experience in public life was as president of her synagogue.
Beto O’Rourke Runs the Israel Gauntlet
Jews make up less than one percent of the Texas population. And yet the “Israel question” has reared its head in this year’s most-watched Senate...
Is Nikki Haley Different From Her Predecessors?
At AIPAC conferences she wins over the crowd which responds with lengthy standing ovations no other speaker can dream of receiving.
Donald Trump’s Jewish Advisers: A Primer
Days before Rosh Hashanah, President Donald Trump gathered some of his closest Jewish advisers to sit next to him in the Oval Office as he conducted the traditional presidential High Holiday conference call with rabbis and Jewish leaders. Here are some of the members of the American Jewish community with whom the president consults.
Through the Story of a Prague Mansion, Norm Eisen Traces History
It’s a tale of a history-laden Czech palace, but within it lays an allegory of current American politics.
The Return of ‘Citizens Opposed to Propaganda Masquerading as Art’
What brought about this barrage of vitriol directed at Fueller, his organization and several other Washington, DC-area Jewish institutions? It was the invitation of a highly regarded scholar—and staunch critic of Israel—to speak not about Israel, but on her area of expertise.
Qatar, UAE and the Jewish PR Men Stuck in the Middle
An obscure lawsuit came to an end this week, with a California district court dismissing a case accusing Nick Muzin, a Jewish lobbyist working on behalf of the Qatari government, of involvement in the computer hacking of Elliott Broidy, a Jewish billionaire with deep business ties in the United Arab Emirates.
A New Addition to Your Israel Trip: Detainment
American Jews active in peace groups have recently began making sure they have another item on their checklist before leaving for the Holy Land: a phone number of a civil rights lawyer.
Charlottesville, One Year Later
Standing next to David Duke and Richard Spencer last August in Charlottesville, I couldn’t imagine what America would look like a year later. I was surrounded by neo-Nazis and alt-right activists shouting anti-Semitic slurs—at least one with a large swastika tattooed on his back