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Israeli-Americans Angle to Be Influential Players in U.S. Political Sphere
While all eyes at the AIPAC Policy Conference 2016 will be on Donald Trump, a new group of activists there will be coalescing around something other than the most controversial candidate of the U.S....
Reform Leader Rick Jacobs: Trump Is a Person Who Spread ‘Hate’ and ‘Bigotry’
“If you want to be a candidate for the highest office in the world, you can’t be a person of hate and division like Donald Trump is.” This is the emphatic view of Rabbi...
Hillary Clinton Has Won My Millennial, Feminist Vote
I have a confession: I’m supporting Hillary Clinton for president.
This shouldn’t be a radical admission. After all, as the former Secretary of State herself reminded everyone last week, she has received more votes this...
Trump’s Transformation at AIPAC Should Scare You
Writing for a Jewish publication, it is tempting to cast Donald Trump’s speech at AIPAC as a purely Jewish story. It was, after all, delivered at the annual gathering of the world’s premier pro-Israel...
Trump’s Hypnotic Gig at AIPAC Will Go Down in History – or Infamy
On Monday night, Donald Trump showed how and why he might be elected president of the United States. Invited to participate in a candidate’s forum at AIPAC’s annual conference, he came, he spoke, he...
Ted Cruz full speech: God Bless AIPAC, Palestine Hasn’t Existed Since 1948
Speaking to AIPAC, Ted Cruz began by saying "God bless AIPAC, I am thrilled to be here today. Palestine has not existed since 1948."
Invoking the story of Purim, Cruz said that it "tells the miraculous...
These Sheep Are Preparing to Make Baa-aliyah
National animals are a serious matter — after all, what would Americans think of themselves if Ben Franklin’s (fictional) campaign for the turkey had bested the bald eagle? Insofar as Jews are a nation,...
Why Anguish Over AIPAC’s Invitation to Donald Trump Is Misplaced
If there were any doubts about the propriety of the invitation extended to Donald Trump to address the annual Washington policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the results of the March...
Obama nominates Jewish judge, Merrick Garland, to Supreme Court
President Barack Obama nominated to the Supreme Court a Jewish judge, Merrick Garland, who is currently the chief of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Garland, 63, a Chicago native, has...
Pew Study of Israel Shows a Nation Fractured Into ‘Tribes’ — Big Split With...
Even though Peter Jaffe had never been to Israel, the Maryland lawyer felt a kinship with the people there, imagining a nation state full of “New York Jews.” That changed as soon as he...