Five Things to Know This Week: BDS, Saudi Arabia, and Tax Reform
Regardless of whether the anti-BDS law gets attached and becomes law, the debate it triggered can serve as a useful map of pro-Israel politics on the Democratic side....
Friday, July 19, 2019
Politics
On Hannukah, Washington’s Jewish Power Players See Who’s In and Who’s Out
Standing on a cold December night in what seemed to be a never ending queue outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, visitors waiting to enter the embassy’s annual Hanukkah reception had plenty of time to commiserate....
Who’s Afraid of the New Democrats?
With a class of politicians more diverse than American politics has ever seen, Democrats feel better positioned now to claim the mantle of representing the new America: young, feminine, of many races, ethnicities, genders and faiths....
What Do the Numbers of Jews in Congress Mean? Not Much
For all its political sophistication and savviness, the Jewish community still takes great interest in the bottom line: How many Jews got in? ...
Rebecca Traister Is Mad. And That’s Okay.
Rebecca Traister is angry. She is angry, and every day strangers criticize her rage, or tell her she sounds like a fool, or that attractive women should not get angry....
Voter Fraud. A Jewish Issue?
[vc_row row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] PHOTO From left to right: Ami Horowitz, Dennis Prager, Mark Levin & Edward Blum It was 1908, and New York City was in the midst of its biggest wave of Jewish immigration. As election time approached, city officials, worried about the potential...
The New Jews: Moment’s Midterm Roundup
Along with a record number of women, LGBT and minority candidates running for office, Jewish representation in Congress got a slight boost this election season. ...
Opinion | Poland and Hungary Are the Tip of the Iceberg
The news from Central Europe seems to be uniformly bad: democracy threatened, rule of law subverted, historical revisionism triumphant. It all carries a nasty 1930s flavor. To Western readers, moreover, most of that news seems to come from Budapest and Warsaw. We don’t hear much...
It’s Jew v. Jew in New York’s Congressional Race
New York’s 1st Congressional District hosts this election cycle’s most Jewish race, and one that provides valuable insight into a question on the minds of many Republicans....
Who Should Be Jerusalem’s Next Mayor?
As Israel’s municipal elections, scheduled for October 30, come closer, we are caught between two Jerusalems....