In the roller coaster known as the Trump presidency, nothing lasts forever, and the president’s recent decision to pull American troops out of Syria is seen as a diplomatic and strategic blow to Israel. ...
Regardless of whether the anti-BDS law gets attached and becomes law, the debate it triggered can serve as a useful map of pro-Israel politics on the Democratic side. ...
Standing on a cold December night in what seemed to be a never ending queue outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, visitors waiting to enter the embassy’s annual Hanukkah reception had plenty of time to commiserate. ...
With a class of politicians more diverse than American politics has ever seen, Democrats feel better positioned now to claim the mantle of representing the new America: young, feminine, of many races, ethnicities, genders and faiths. ...
For all its political sophistication and savviness, the Jewish community still takes great interest in the bottom line: How many Jews got in? ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
Jews make up less than one percent of the Texas population. And yet the “Israel question” has reared its
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At AIPAC conferences she wins over the crowd which responds with lengthy standing ovations no other speaker can dream of receiving. ...
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 ...
It’s a tale of a history-laden Czech palace, but within it lays an allegory of current American politics. ...