Vice President Kamala Harris’ likely presidential nomination has Democrats dreaming of history: First woman in the Oval Office. First Jewish First Gentleman. First…White House mezuzah? Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff hung a mezuzah — a decorative...

When vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz declared, “We’ll sleep when we’re dead”after his formal introduction in Philadelphia, he was not only quoting rocker Warren Zevon or referencing American revolution tummler Benjamin Franklin who famously...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump at a press conference on Thursday claimed that had he won re-election in 2020, he would have made a new deal with Iran to prevent the Islamic Republic from acquiring nuclear weapons. “I would have had a deal done...

In the Old Town of Rhodes, a picturesque tourist destination in the Aegean Sea, stands a monument to a dark period in the island’s past. In the former “Djuderia,” the Jewish quarter, a marble obelisk commemorates the deportation of the island’s...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been picked as the Vice President candidate on the Democratic ticket topped by current VP, Kamala Harris, according to a social media announcement from Harris. He is the first Minnesotan on a national ticket since former...

Two years ago, Marvel Studios announced it will bring its 1980s comic book character “Sabra,” a former spy for Israel’s Mossad agency, to the big screen in its upcoming Captain America: Brave New World film. Popular Israeli actress Shira...

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...

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...

Josh Shapiro, the popular Pennsylvania governor, is on the short list of potential running mates for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Here’s the inside look at what could be the first Jewish Second Family: the Shapiros. Who...