WASHINGTON -- Partisan Jewish groups focused on Paul Ryan's leading role in framing Republican budget policy in assessing Mitt Romney's pick as running mate. Rep. Ryan (R-Wis.), the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives budget committee, has taken...

WASHINGTON -- Jewish groups are among dozens of religious denominations and organizations endorsing a "Faithful Budget" in opposition to the Republican budget proposal, which would cut Medicaid spending and disproportionately shift Medicare costs to fixed-income...

United States Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Minn.), whose proposal for Medicare could have a major adverse effect on seniors, is both a Catholic adherent of Christian teachings and a devotee of the polemicist Ayn Rand, whose literature preached self over self-sacrifice....