Tag: Politics
Orthodox Jewish Arizona council member uses family Bible for swearing-in ceremony
When he was sworn in as a new member of the Scottsdale City Council on Monday, Adam Kwasman used his family’s copy of a Hebrew Bible published by the late renowned Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz.
Kwasman...
French political candidate agrees photo with Nazi hat ‘in bad taste,’ withdraws
After an image circulated online of Ludivine Daoudi wearing a Nazi hat, the candidate for office as part of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party withdrew her candidacy, Politico reported.
Daoudi was running for office in Calvados...
A Balanced Vision: Human Singularity, International Law, and American Survival
Professor Louis Rene Beres l Purdue University
The author, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Purdue University, argues that to secure a just and survivable global order, the world must transition from competitive nationalism to...
Anti-Israel candidate loses in New York primary; Nadler gets 16th term, defeating MaloneyIn the...
Jewish Democrats in New York managed to avoid adding another progressive candidate whose position on Israel and BDS had elicited concerns over the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s primaries.
Levi Strauss heir and former federal...
France elects Jewish woman speaker of National Assembly
A Jewish lawyer and mother of five is the newly elected speaker of France’s National Assembly and the first woman to ever hold that position.
Yael Braun-Privet, 51, whose grandparents fled Eastern Europe in the 1930s to escape the Nazis,...
Freedom isn’t possible without a nation
It’s the most popular Jewish holiday of the year. Though the fastest-growing and perhaps soon to be the largest sector of American Jewry is the one demographers call “Jews of no religion,” Passover is...
Rep. Jake Auchincloss: Democrats are ‘big tent party’ that in its totality is pro-Israel
Pro-Israel organizations have recently been confronting the growing number of candidates for office with decidedly anti-Israel positions, in a very few cases, successfully defeating stalwart pro-Israel incumbent Democrats in primaries.
While the growth of anti-Israel...
The war to save democracy could kill democracy
Are Israelis happy with their government? A poll published a few weeks ago by the country’s Channel 12 showed that a plurality preferred the current coalition comprising parties of the right, center, left and one Arab...
Has the time come to bribe the unvaccinated?
“How can we as a society stand by and watch people die when a simple shot could prevent a life-threatening illness?” That was the agonized question asked by a group of nine health-care providers...
Can Israel’s new government make up with Democrats?
Like a student on the first day of a new school semester, the slate is clean for new governments seeking to improve relations with other countries. In such circumstances, hope and optimism are the...