Who Should Be Jerusalem’s Next Mayor?
As Israel’s municipal elections, scheduled for October 30, come closer, we are caught between two Jerusalems....
Politics
Why Hagai El-Ad Needed to Speak at the UN
I didn’t want to listen to Hagai El-Ad, director of the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, as he provided an official briefing to the United Nations Security Council about the situation in Gaza and the West Bank last week. ...
In the Florida Governor’s Race, Jews Are at the Center
With recent polling putting the contest within the margin of error, Florida’s razor-thin gubernatorial race, pitting two Evangelical Protestant Democrats against two Catholic Republicans, may hinge on the state’s Jews....
Anti-Semitism Watch | Germany’s Far-Right Is Changing the Political Landscape
In August, far-right mobs in the eastern German town of Chemnitz hunted foreigners through the streets. In the chaos, a kosher restaurant was attacked and its owner injured. With right-wing political extremism on the rise, where will it end? [divider] On August 27 at around 10 p.m.,...
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 race between up-and-coming Democratic hopeful Beto O’Rourke and former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, both considered by many to be...
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....
The Not-So Lost Cause of Moses Ezekiel
The Jewish Sculptor’s Confederate Statues Have Become a Beacon for White Supremacists....
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...
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....