Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published November 20, 2024
Arthur Frommer, whose empire of travel guidebooks led one interviewer to call him the “quintessential wandering Jew,” died Nov. 18 at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 95.
Starting in 1957 with the bestselling “Europe on 5...
A number of progressive Jewish groups are backing an effort by Sen. Bernie Sanders to block arms sales to Israel.
The effort, a collection of several resolutions, is unlikely to pass in the closely divided Senate but could split Democratic lawmakers.
The...
(JTA) — President-elect Donald Trump has nominated billionaire financier Howard Lutnick, the co-chair of his transition team, as commerce secretary.
Trump announced the appointment on Tuesday, after several Trump associates including Lutnick had...
The head of Jewish Federations of North America is doubling down on nonpartisanship after one of his executives upset colleagues last week by signaling excitement about Jewish settlement in Gaza.
The remark by Karen Paikin Barall, JFNA’s vice president...
Sam Salz’s first taste of NCAA Division I football came during a kickoff — known in football as a “special teams” play.
For most football players, kickoffs are in fact routine. But if anything about the play was special, it was Salz’s presence...
Donald Trump announced Saturday that attorney Will Scharf will join his White House team.
“I am pleased to announce that William Owen Scharf will serve as assistant to the president and White House staff secretary,” the president-elect said in...
By Jacob Kornbluh, The Forward
• Published November 18, 2024
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President-elect Donald Trump has appointed one of his Jewish personal attorneys to a powerful position in the White...
Dana Bash, chief CNN political correspondent, denounced Code Pink after the anti-Israel group posted video footage of one of its members accosting Bash at Main Line Reform Temple, in the Philadelphia area, where she spoke on Thursday.
“What is going...
WASHINGTON — One of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s last actions as the outgoing Senate majority leader is an attempt to codify a controversial definition of antisemitism in the face of claims from the left and the right that it impinges on free speech.
The...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published November 17, 2024
Mel Brooks, who mocked Adolf Hitler in his 1967 black comedy “The Producers,” has always made the case for satire as a weapon against tyranny.
“You have to bring him down with ridicule,” he told “60 Minutes” in 2001. “It’s been one...
For most of Jewish culinary history, anyone seeking to make matzah balls faced one major choice: sinkers or floaters?
In the 20th century, with the advent of home-cooking conveniences, another decision joined the one about density: from scratch or...
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Matt Gaetz as his nominee for attorney general, putting forward a firebrand who has tussled with Jewish groups, embraced an antisemitic conspiracy theory and associated with a Holocaust denier.
Gaetz, 42, was...
