NEW YORK (JTA) – President Donald Trump paid extended tribute to the memory of the Holocaust and to Israel in a speech to the World Jewish Congress.Given via prerecorded video at the opening dinner of the WJC’s Plenary Assembly in New York City Sunday...
(JTA) — President Donald Trump will visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and deliver public remarks as part of the museum’s annual Days of Remembrance Ceremony.The ceremony will be held Tuesday in the Capitol Rotunda, a day after Holocaust Memorial...
French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen speaking at a rally in Lille, March 26, 2017. (Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images)(JTA) — President Donald Trump said the attack that killed a police officer in Paris would “probably help” French far-right...
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that President Donald Trump’s recent actions in the Middle East are “a welcome change.”Netanyahu said this during a meeting Friday with James Mattis during his first official visit to Israel...
President Donald Trump’s missile strike against Syria inaugurates a new chapter in the long and controversial history of American responses—and sometimes non-responses—to mass murder around the world.Although the killing of Syrian civilians by President...
Response to editorialIn response to your editorial “A Bad, Divisive Strategy” (March 15), I will try to be brief and begin by giving a synopsis of how the Israeli media summarized the anti-BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) law targeted by your...
President Theodore Roosevelt, one of the most erratic, flamboyant and unpredictable presidents until this year, coined the term “bully pulpit” for his ability to use his office to shape public opinion and policy for what he saw as the greater good.Today,...
Almost lost in the whirlwind of news regarding cemetery desecrations and the arrest in St. Louis of a suspect in some of the bomb threats at Jewish community centers is the fact that last month, President Donald Trump held his first face-to-face talks...
BY GREG SVIRNOVSKIY, Junior, Marquette high school
• Published March 8, 2017
Protesters gathered on the steps of Capitol Hill, waving signs, marching stoically. Braving the chilly air and drizzling skies, they yelled proudly in cries of desperation.“Show me what America looks like,” they said, their chants permeating through...
In the words on the cover of the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, it is now “Trump Time.” What are we to make of Donald Trump’s foreign policy, beyond the early tumult over refugees and other issues? What might it look like over the next four years?It...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published February 15, 2017
People, especially the young and women, have replaced oil as the greatest asset in the Middle East, according to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. Albright and Hadley, co-chairs of the Middle...
Inauguration blessingI resent Professor Henry Schvey’s Jan. 25 commentary (“A shameful blessing at Trump’s inauguration”), although it was quite informative. In it, I learned that if one (Rabbi Marvin Hier, for instance, founder and dean of the...
