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First reactions: What Netanyahu said (and didn’t say) about the U.S. and Israel — and what it all means
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress today wasn’t his first Congressional rodeo, but the stakes have never been higher. So we covered it it live, to help you make sense of one of the most-scrutinized Capitol Hill appearances in recent memory. With the speech, Netanyahu became the world leader who has addressed Congress the...
Trump fundraiser drops Candace Owens after backlash over her embrace of antisemitism
(JTA) — An upcoming fundraiser for Donald Trump dropped far-right commentator Candace Owens from its guest lineup Tuesday, following blowback over Owens’ record of embracing antisemitic rhetoric and Holocaust denial. The fundraiser on Friday is backed by a cryptocurrency called “MAGA Again” founded by Trump supporters with the aim of promoting his policies. It will...
Donald Trump once again says he is ‘amazed’ Jews who support Israel vote for Democrats
(JTA) — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump again said he finds it “amazing” American Jews vote for Democrats and said many do not like Israel, an accusation that has infuriated Jewish groups in the past and that Trump made shortly before he is due to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Well, it’s amazing, actually,...
Netanyahu, Gore and bipartisan group of dignitaries remember the late Sen. Joe Lieberman at memorial service
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amid a highly contentious political season and as the U.S. witnesses history unfold in the presidential race, a number of high-profile Democrats and Republicans gathered on Wednesday morning at a synagogue to remember a man who both made history and valued bipartisanship. Four months after the death of Joe Lieberman, the longtime...
A guide to the Jewish and Israeli groups that protested Netanyahu’s DC visit
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress on Wednesday, thousands of protesters marched outside of the Capitol building and others demonstrated within the House Chamber. The U.S. Capitol Police wrote in a post on X that the crowd was becoming “violent” and did not obey orders to move back from the police line. The...
Major unions call on Biden to ‘immediately halt all military aid to Israel’
Seven prominent national unions have called on President Joe Biden to “immediately halt all military aid to Israel.” “Our unions are hearing the cries of humanity as this vicious war continues,” American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein said in a press release after the letter was issued Tuesday, the day before Israeli Prime Minister...
Donald Trump thanks Mahmoud Abbas for concern after assassination attempt
(JTA) — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump told Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, that it was “so nice” to get his good wishes after Trump survived an assassination attempt, a notably friendly gesture ahead of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has long worked to marginalize Abbas. “It is with grave concern...
Benjamin Netanyahu will address Congress today. Here’s what to know and how to watch.
(JTA) — This afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak before a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress in Washington, D.C., more than nine months into the Israel-Hamas war and at a time of political uncertainty in both the United States and Israel. The speech is also taking place as intense talks continue over...
After uncertainty, Benjamin Netanyahu secures meetings with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump
(JTA) — WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former President Donald Trump will meet on Friday at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate, a day after Netanyahu meets with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Netanyahu has been scrambling for the meetings, and the photo opportunities each would bring, with the current...
What if God is a Republican? An agnostic’s lament
TEL AVIV — I’ve been thinking a lot about God lately. What probably sent me down this theological rabbit hole was former President Donald Trump’s almost-miraculous survival of the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, and the supernatural explanations of this offered by Trump and his supporters. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas claimed that God tilted Trump’s...
How a bestselling book became an unlikely lightning rod in literary fights over the Israel-Hamas war
(JTA) — “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” Gabrielle Zevin’s novel about video game designers, has dominated the bestseller list for two years and was recently chosen as one of the New York Times’ best 100 books of the 21st century. But for months Zevin, an author of Jewish and Korean descent with nine other books...
The ICJ ruling is a welcome step, but Palestinians in the West Bank are running out of time
“Who will protect us?” Tareeq Hathaleen, a resident of Umm Al Kheir, a Palestinian village in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank, looked to me and the tour group of Israelis I was leading for answers. Life in Umm Al Kheir, as in the rest of the West Bank, has been harrowing since...
An astronaut, kosher Jew and Southern gentleman walk into the VP race: Ranking the Jewishness of Harris’ VP prospects
A shomer Shabbos Jew, an astronaut and an Andy Taylor-type walk into a vice presidential race. We don’t yet know the punchline, but this trio, made up of Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona and North Carolina’s Democratic governor Roy Cooper, are projected to be prospects for Kamala Harris’ running mate....
Benjamin Netanyahu holds the record for most speeches in front of Congress. Here’s why
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds many records. He is his country’s longest-serving prime minister; the first prime minister born after the establishment of Israel; and, when he was first elected in 1996 at age 46, became the country’s youngest-ever leader. On Wednesday, he can add another line to his resume: He will become the...
How Kamala Harris views antisemitism differently than Biden
At first glance, it is hard to spot much daylight between Biden and Harris on antisemitism. Biden drafted Doug Emhoff, Harris’s Jewish husband, to serve as his administration’s unofficial spokesperson on the issue. And the vice president’s office was deeply involved in creating the White House’s national strategy to counter antisemitism. But there are significant differences. A...
‘He should go and stay’: As Netanyahu visits Congress, Israelis at home are tired of the act
KIBBUTZ MISHMAR HANEGEV, Israel — How do Israelis feel about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s much-scrutinized diplomatic trip to Washington, D.C.? “Honestly, no one here cares,” one college student who recently returned from reserve duty in Gaza said. “We all have bigger problems.” On this kibbutz just 20 miles from the Gaza border, none of the...
New Holocaust memoir shifts the focus from survivors to descendants
Irena’s Gift: An Epic World War II Memoir of Sisters, Secrets, and Survival By Karen Kirsten Citadel Press/Kensington Publishing Corp., 400 pages, $28 The flood of Holocaust memoirs continues, even if, with the passage of time, memory no longer suffices. Second- and third-generation authors must root around in archives and seek out sources much like...
As Netanyahu speaks to Congress, it’s never been more important — or lonely — to be a liberal Zionist
Last summer, my parents and my grandmother, in her early 90s and visiting from Israel, yelled with me and hundreds of others at a protest outside a synagogue in New Jersey. “Shame on Rothman! Shame on Rothman!” We were peacefully protesting the presence of Simcha Rothman, one of the architects of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s...
Netanyahu meets with hostage families in DC as pressure mounts for a deal
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Washington, D.C. with families of Israeli hostages, one of his first stops on a highly anticipated trip to the United States and a sign of how much focus is being placed on talks over a hostage release and ceasefire deal. According to a report about the...
Kamala Harris’ backers say she understands Jews and Israel. Her critics fear her stance on Gaza.
(JTA) — WASHINGTON — Coming down the stairs in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City in 2017, Kamala Harris saw the Western Wall and knew what she had to do. Harris, then a California senator, reached into her pocket and pulled out a blue kippah and clips she had prepared for the occasion. She...
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