Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA
• Published August 14, 2024
For days, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has been dogged by criticism — including from the Republican Jewish Coalition — about his ties to a Minnesota imam who praised Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and once shared a link to a pro-Hitler...
Luke Tress, Ron Kampeas, JTA
• Published August 13, 2024
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar won her Democratic party primary on Tuesday, securing a victory for the hardline-left “Squad” member who is one of Israel’s fiercest critics in Congress.
Omar defeated her challenger, Don Samuels, in Minnesota’s 5th...
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA
• Published August 13, 2024
Until recently, business was slow for Michael Zorek, a retired actor who hawks irreverent political buttons every Sunday to farmer’s market patrons outside New York City’s American Museum of Natural History. Some days, Zorek sold as few as five Joe...
Regardless of who stood in the batter’s box, Jewish pitcher Max Lazar’s first career strikeout would have been a big deal.
But as it was, that moment in Saturday night’s game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Arizona Diamondbacks was significant...
Marilyn (“Lynn”) Loket Kline, 89, was born on April 29, 1935, in Memphis, TN to the late Harry S. Loket and late Minnie Samuels Loket and died on August 6, 2024.
Lynn, wife of the late Robert P. Kline, M.D., is survived by her children, Lee...
Lorraine K. Elbein, 11/30/1930 – 08/05/2024
Lorraine K. Elbein passed away on August 5, 2024. Beloved wife of the late Melvin Elbein; loving mother and mother-in-law of Adam (Jan) Elbein, Tracey Elbein, Dana (Kevin) McMurtry and Brooke (Jeffrey)...
WASHINGTON — Is it weird that Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz to be her running mate instead of Josh Shapiro?
On Tuesday, as soon as the vice president announced that the Minnesota governor would be her running mate, critics of the choice began suggesting...
Sylvia Permuter, August 5, 2024; Born December 24, 1922, in Brighton Beach, NY.
Beloved wife of the late Robert Permuter (1997) for 55 years. Dear mother of Lawrence (Darlene) Permuter, David (Ruthie) Permuter and Leslie (Mark) Brownstein. Loving...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said that Ye, the rapper whose antisemitic tirades prompted international furor and led to the collapse of his career, is “a really nice guy” with a “good heart.”
Trump made the comments Monday during...
When he was elected governor of Pennsylvania in 2022, Josh Shapiro declared victory by quoting a famous adage from Pirkei Avot, an ancient code of Jewish ethics.
Now, after losing the battle to be Kamala Harris’ running mate, Shapiro has turned to...
Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor who burst into national view after calling Republicans “weird,” will be Kamala Harris’ running mate on the November Democratic ticket.
Multiple outlets reported the choice early Tuesday, hours before Harris was...
When Tara Neuwirth arrived in New York City in June for six weeks of intensive Yiddish study at the YIVO Institute for Yiddish Research, she knew what to expect — this summer was her third time taking the course over four decades.
The first time...
