PITTSBURGH (JTA) — American Jews woke up on Wednesday to a presidential election that is extending their anxiety and to electoral maps that show a Republican Party changed by a president they repudiated with their votes.Joe Biden and Donald Trump were...
(JTA) — Jewish voters favored Joe Biden over President Donald Trump 77%-21% in an exit poll.The numbers, in a poll by GBAO Strategies for J Street, a liberal Jewish Middle East advocacy group which endorsed Biden, was of 800 voters who voted early or...
(JTA) — Kathy Manning, a former immigration attorney who led two national Jewish organizations, won a congressional seat in North Carolina.Manning defeated Lee Haywood, her Republican opponent in an open Greensboro-area district. The 6th District was...
(JTA) — Cori Bush, a Democrat who expressed support for the movement to boycott Israel, is set to become the St. Louis area’s next congresswoman.Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, who also support the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction...
(JTA) — Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene will become the first member of Congress who has expressed belief in the QAnon conspiracy theory, which is rich in anti-Semitism.Greene, whose Democratic challenger dropped out of the race in September,...
(JTA) — When Rabbi David Seidenberg wrote a prayer for the presidential election in 2004, he wanted it to be usable by people on both sides of the political aisle.This year, he added lines calling for the tearing out of tyranny and the pulverization...
There is the old saw that “where there are two Jews, you will find three opinions.” A case in point is the ongoing debate over whether it is the Republican Party or the Democratic Party that better represents Jews today and, more particularly, which...
Did you know that the U.S. Air Force is the smallest it has been since 1947 and that we have the smallest navy in almost a century? Do you care? You may recall a slogan that Bill Clinton’s campaign used during his 1992 run for the presidency: “It’s...
