|
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has said he is “seriously thinking of running for president,” and a lot of people aren’t happy about it.
Schultz, who stepped down as chairman …
more
By Josefin Dolsten, JTA
|
2/6/19
|
|
If Bernie Sanders runs for president again, the one thing we know for sure is that Bernie, the sequel, will not be a retread.
Much about Bernie 1.0 was attention-getting precisely because his …
more
By Ron Kampeas, JTA
|
2/6/19
|
|
The danger of a Middle Eastern nuclear arms race in the near future is casting a shadow over the long-term future of a region that already has its fair share of security problems.
While such a …
more
By Yaakov Lappin, JNS
|
2/6/19
|
|
When New York state liberalized its abortion law last week, the Catholic Church and Southern Baptist Convention unsurprisingly released statements slamming the action. And they were joined by two …
more
By Ben Sales, JTA
|
2/6/19
|
|
The political fallout from the 1994 terrorist attack on Argentina’s AMIA Jewish center has driven a wedge between AMIA and the Jewish political umbrella …
more
JTA
|
2/6/19
|
|
For more than a decade, Alberto Nisman had been investigating the worst terrorist attack ever committed on Argentine soil: the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that …
more
By Clifford D. May and Toby Dershowitz, Israel Hayom
|
2/6/19
|
|
For most of her life, Rachel Riley was only vaguely aware of her Jewish ancestry. A daytime game show host, Riley, 33, is one of countless unaffiliated Jews in the United Kingdom — a country …
more
By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
|
2/6/19
|
|
For the better part of the past century, Israel and Jewish leadership around the world have been trying everything possible to make peace with our Muslim Arab neighbors. …
more
By Gary Schiff
|
2/6/19
|
|
A rabbi in Toronto thought no one would show up in 13-degree weather for the funeral of a Holocaust survivor with virtually no family.
At 11 pm on the night before the noon funeral of Eddie Ford …
more
By Marcy Oster
|
2/6/19
|
|
Selected as Ranking Member of a House foreign relations subcommittee, Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin was surprised to learn that freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar, a BDS supporter who once accused Israeli Jews …
more
By Jeff Dunetz
|
2/6/19
|