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...
By Jacob Kornbluh, The Forward
• Published November 13, 2024
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President-elect Donald Trump began shaping his cabinet this week, rolling out nominations that feature people deeply connected...
President-elect Donald Trump announced that the “great public servant, governor, and leader in faith for many years” and “highly respected” Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, will be the U.S. ambassador to Israel during the next administration.
Huckabee...
By Lauren Markoe, Jacob Kornbluh, The Forward
• Published November 12, 2024
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President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Steve Witkoff, a real estate investor and friend, special envoy to the Middle...
