Tag: U.S. Politics
Master diplomat George Shultz, and his interworking with Soviet and Jewish affairs
The long-term secretary of state, George Shultz, who died on Feb. 6 at the age of 100, will be remembered most for his negotiations on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987 and the...
August 26, 1920: Women’s Suffrage
American women at last won the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted on this date in 1920.
Among the Jewish women involved in the suffrage movement were Gertrude Weil,...
On Tisha B’Av, it’s time for Americans to step back from apocalyptic rhetoric
Americans are experiencing a summer of discontent in a way that exceeds any in living memory. The nation is divided not just along political lines but seems increasingly immersed in something much dangerous—a culture...
Lauder declares $25 million effort to fight anti-Semitism in American politics
Amid the rise of anti-Semitism in the United States, former U.S. Ambassador to Austria and philanthropist Ronald S. Lauder announced on Monday the launch of the Anti-Semitism Accountability Project (ASAP), investing $25 million in...
Bernie Sanders: ‘It’s not anti-Semitic to criticize Israel’
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, said that “it is not anti-Semitic to criticize the policies of the Israeli government,” adding on to his prior stance that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
While a consensus rules in Israel, US politics becomes more divisive
It used to be that Israel and the United States represented two very different political paradigms.
The two major American political parties may have had their disagreements, but the difference in their worldviews was slight...