Felipe Goodman (NV): ‘Immigrants Are Being Treated Like Pariahs’
Felipe Goodman (52), a Democrat from Las Vegas, NV, is a Mexican immigrant. He was an assistant rabbi in Mexico City before joining Temple Beth...
Josh Mandelbaum (IA): ‘Trump Is an Existential Threat’
Josh Mandelbaum (40), a Democrat from Des Moines, IA, comes from a long line of Iowans and attends Temple B’nai Jeshurun, the congregation his great-great-grandfather helped...
Ruth Kantrowitz (WI): ‘Send Them Back’
Ruth Kantrowitz (42), a Republican from Mequon, WI, immigrated to the U.S. from Israel in 1989 at age 13 when her family won the green...
Lou Weiss (PA): ‘Beat Him at the Ballot Box’
Lou Weiss (63), a Republican from Pittsburgh, PA, grew up a Reform Jew in a “McGovern liberal family” in Pittsburgh. His conservative political views took hold...
Beshert | ‘April Fool’s!’—The Prank That Made Them Partners
We settled on his idea to prank mobile users into thinking they were getting a call from Ashton Kutcher himself. And for the next week or so, the two of us “partnered” on a project that would go on to garner media attention from national publications large and small; an April Fools’ Day prank that did, in fact, fool millions of people over the course of one, silly day that spring.
Lynne Toporov (FL): ‘I Don’t Think Obama Did One Heck of a Thing’
Lynne Toporov (76), a Republican from Sarasota, FL, grew up in an agnostic Philadelphia family surrounded by Democrats. Her grandfather was a Communist. She was...
Alma Hernandez (AZ): ‘No One Should Be Above the Law’
Alma Hernandez (26), a Democrat from Tucson, AZ, is the first Jewish Mexican-American woman elected to the Arizona State House. Her brother is also a state...
It’s Stephen Miller Time
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.
Book Review | The Passions of a Prime Minister, Revealed
What quality did people see in David Ben-Gurion that made him indispensable, when so many other qualities made him plainly impossible?
Opinion Interview | Will the Middle East Erupt?
When a Middle East crisis erupts, it can be hard to think long term. But Robert Malley sees larger, longer-running dangers in the region.
Opinion | History Held Hostage
Until the doors of Warsaw’s POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews opened six-and-a-half years ago
Opinion | The Politics of a Mizrachi Millennial
In August 2015, I was part of a bipartisan group of young Iranian-American Jews from Los Angeles who met with Representative Ted Lieu.