After Corbyn’s Exit, Is the Labour Party Safe for UK’s Jews?
Sir Keir Starmer has sought to rid the party of far-left antisemitism. Has he succeeded enough for British Jews to trust the party again?
20
Dec
09
Aug
Battleground Ohio
Ohio’s 11th congressional district isn’t usually a political arena that draws much attention. As a safe blue seat, it hardly ever attracts big names and media headlines, and definitely doesn’t see millions of dollars poured into a primary race.
30
Mar
Winners and Losers in the Most Recent Israeli Election
More than a week after the most recent Israeli election, Israelis are still trying to find a way to make sense of what happened—and, no less important, what didn't happen.
Based on the results, it is reasonable to assume that incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be reasonable and will not concede that he cannot form a majority. He will probably drag Israel into another election, the fifth in five years, likely to be held in the summer or early fall.
According to Israeli law, a new Knesset will be sworn in, and the current government will continue as an interim government until a new one is formed—or not—after the next round. However, before these elections recede into the previous ones’ not-so-distant memories, it is worth examining who the winners and the losers are and what...
08
Mar
Jews in the Middle: Who Are the Jewish Independent Voters?
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1. The Jewish vote is in. Again.
So much has happened since Americans went to the polls four months ago, and quite frankly, no one misses the days leading up to the election.
But let’s try to take just one more look at the eternal question bewildering the Jewish world ever since: How did the Jews vote?
The issue was discussed, argued and debated back in November, with the same decades-old storyline. Yes, Jewish Americans once again voted overwhelmingly for the Democrats, but was there a shift in voting trends? Professional Jewish Democrats and Republicans will continue debating this question until the cows come home (or at least until their donors agree that results trend in a way that...
23
Dec
Ossoff, Warnock and Georgia’s Black-Jewish Coalitions
When Jon Ossoff and the Reverend Raphael Warnock stand together to campaign in Georgia’s twin Senate runoffs, they stand on the state’s well-established foundation of Black-Jewish cooperation.
02
Dec
The Ticking Political Clocks Shaping the U.S.-Israel Relationship
With just under a year to go, Trump, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, would really like to fit in another one or two major moves—a grand peace plan, greenlighting Israeli annexation of the Jordan Valley or the signing of a mutual defense treaty between the two countries.
26
Aug
Opinion | Grumpy Jewish Grandpa 2020
Senator Bernie Sanders gets a lot of grief for being loud. “You don’t have to yell,” Representative Tim Ryan told the senator during CNN’s second Democratic primary debate.
23
Sep
If You Don’t Vote? ‘I’ll Haunt You When I Die’
If the 2016 election weren’t surreal enough, if this year’s campaign ads weren’t strange enough: Well, now there’s this.
07
Sep
From the Campaigns
As Election Day approaches, Moment reached out to four experts—two campaign workers, and two outside experts—to discuss the candidates.
06
Mar
Religion in the News
By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
The biggest religion news stories in 2011 involved tensions with Islam, followed by faith in presidential politics, a new Pew report reveals. Some of the key findings in the study, “Religion in the News,” include:
Religion coverage made up just 0.7 percent of all mainstream media coverage in 2011, down from two percent in 2010
Religion received as much attention as race, gender and LGBT issues
Islam made up nearly one-third of all religion news stories last year
The top religion stories of the year included: religion in the election, Peter King’s “Radical Islam” congressional hearings, anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, the Westboro Church protests, religion in September 11th commemorations, the Catholic priest abuse scandal and Terry Jones’s Quran burning
For more on religion coverage in the mainstream media, Moment speaks with Jesse Holcomb, a research...