A candidate mistrusted by some in the Jewish community decries antisemitism — and apologizes
“I deeply apologize,” wrote Nida Allam, a county commissioner who is running to represent the Raleigh-Durham area in the U.S. House.
Do Chabad’s gains on campus compete with or complement Hillel?
Does Chabad’s expansion on college campuses complement, or compete with, Hillel?
Where the kitschy Holy Land theme park died, a medical facility will rise
After 20 years, the Bible-based theme park shuts its door to make way for the construction of a regional health center.
Were southern Jews in the civil rights era ‘inside agitators?’
Author T. K. Thorne on her newest book, “Behind the Magic Curtain: Secrets, Spies, and Unsung White Allies of Birmingham’s Civil Rights Days.”
Nikki Fried announces run against Gov. Ron DeSantis: ‘This isn’t democracy – this is fascism.’
Florida Jewish Democrat Nikki Fried today announced her candidacy to challenge incumbent Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Can brash, Bronx-born Democrat Alan Grayson take down Marco Rubio?
Abrasive longshot Alan Grayson wants to take down Marco Rubio
As Aaron Rajman’s attackers head for trial, his rabbis remember a sweet ‘Tough Jew’
Friends want closure in the murder of slain MMA fighter Rajman, aka “The Matzoh Brawler”
Gaetz crony Joel Greenberg is only Jewish ‘as a prop’ say his critics
Some critics of indicted former tax collector Joel Micah Greenberg — and there are many — are confused about whether or not he is Jewish. Lynn Moira Dictor is not.
At CPAC, Jewish Republicans are (still) all in for Trump
The Young Jewish Conservatives’ Purim luncheon at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) had everything: a speed reading of the Megillah by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, hamentaschen, a kid from Brooklyn dressed in a red squid costume, a comedian in a Rush Limbaugh sweatshirt, and a comparison of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar to Haman.
Critics find plenty wrong in DeSantis vaccinating Holocaust survivors first
Noble act of mercy or “venal political maneuver?” A number of observers— including one of the nation’s leading medical ethicists — are criticizing the decision by Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, to move an estimated 750 of the state’s Holocaust survivors and their spouses to the front of the COVID-19 vaccine line.