Understanding U.S. Politics and Jewish Influence with Moment
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Among the feel-good leitmotifs of the Biden administration’s early days has been the love story of Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff. ...
Now that we are almost halfway through the Biden Administration’s first 100 days, what is the current state of our democracy? Will Democrats and Republicans be able to put their differences aside and work together? What is the fallout from January 6th? Can Americans come back together again? New York ...
Yes, but the more difficult question is, what kind of changes do we want? The police and science have made great strides in preventing crime. ...
The pressure was building, and Donald Trump didn’t like it one bit. It was the spring of 2017, and the still-new president was growing ever angrier. “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” Trump blurted out in frustration. ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump are using similar tactics to attack the media and question the democratic process. ...
Early criticism of the Bahrain Economic workshop, preview of the upcoming democratic debates and AOC's border camps comments ...
Nathan Guttman writes about U.S. Ambassador David Friedman's comments on Israeli annexation of Palestinian West Bank ...
The term, historically used to describe an adherent to the ideology of white supremacy, is now thrown around so often that it no longer is always clear what it means. That's a dangerous trend. ...
1. American Jews still dislike Trump A May 22 survey of Jewish voters conducted by the Jewish Electorate Institute tells us
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The party of Trump is a far cry from the party of Reagan. The concern of the Trump base with immigration, like the language of “America First” or the use of tropes favored by white nationalists are not issues that attract American Jews. It is early days, but I suspect ...
Ilhan Omar's tweets caused a controversy. But anti-Semitism in Congress is nothing new. ...
President Donald Trump has brought the mental habits of anti-Semitism from the political fringe into the White House. And yet
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