Moment
Integrity, empathy, decency, caring for others, as well as honesty, are very high on my list.
Moment
A candidate’s support for Israel is very, very important to me.
Moment
From a professional point of view, drug policy is at the top of the list.
Moment
The candidates that I look for are those who have integrity—meaning they walk the talk
Moment
My number one priority is common gun sense laws.
Amy Saltzman
What can 30 politically engaged Jewish voters tell us about the current state of our national political discourse and next year’s presidential election? Plenty, as it turns out.
Roz Chast
A combination of misanthropy and compassion for your fellow humans, and at least some ability to draw and write—this is what makes a cartoonist.
Immediately following each presidential debate, we will survey the 30 participants in our Jewish Political Voices Project to get their reaction to the candidates’ performances and the debate’s impact on the campaign.
The university context is special, because students have a status that allows the university to regulate them qua students—which is very different from the relationship between a citizen and the state.
Not only does the university not have the right, or the power, to educate students in what it thinks is civil or not civil; doing so is contrary to the goal of a liberal arts education.
J Street, the left-leaning pro-Israel lobby, wrapped up its three-day conference in Washington, DC last week. In an email to supporters summing up the meeting (and making a pitch for donations), the group’s president Jeremy Ben-Ami announced, “We’ve changed the conversation” about Israel, noting that the conference brought the issue of Israel to the Democratic presidential race agenda and that candidates have discussed, among other issues, their plans to “employ U.S. leverage to combat settlement expansion.” Or, in other words, J Street made using American foreign aid to Israel into an issue Democrats are willing to fight for.
Andrew Lapin
“I’ve often had access to ‘inside worlds,’ whether it’s media or wealth or celebrity, where I’ve then taken a critical perspective.”
