Tag: Politics
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...
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...
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...
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....
AIPAC Missing Rubio: The End of the ‘Good for Israel’ Neocons
Once plastered across the home page of Marco Rubio’s campaign (RIP) website is the question, ‘Are You Ready for a New American Century?’
Rubio, the first-term senator from Florida, was running in the 2016 Republican...
Stand Up to Trump: Not for AIPAC, Not for the Jews, but for Something...
When Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump takes the podium at next week’s AIPAC Policy Conference, we plan on walking out, joined by hundreds of other rabbis and conference participants.
This protest, which we both helped...
Protesting Bigots and Demagogues at AIPAC? Don’t Stop at Trump. Call Out Netanyahu Too
Many American Jews are angered at the prospect of Donald Trump addressing the AIPAC policy conference in Washington this coming week and are promising to abstain from attending, walk out of the hall or protest...
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...
For Israelis, Donald Trump is U.S. history’s most ‘Israeli’ presidential candidate
This presidential election season is nothing if not fascinating, and the media coverage itself is driving considerable debate. What’s also interesting, but has so far gone unexplored, is how Israeli media are covering the...
The Key to Bernie Sanders’s Appeal Isn’t Socialism. It’s Yiddish
At a rally last October, Remaz Abdelgader — a hijab-wearing Muslim, a senior at George Mason University and the daughter of Sudanese immigrants — stood to ask Bernie Sanders a question.
She started by referring...