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Jacob Kornbluh is the Forward’s senior political reporter. Follow him on Twitter @jacobkornbluh or email kornbluh@forward.com.
Jacob Kornbluh is the Forward’s senior political reporter. Follow him on Twitter @jacobkornbluh or email kornbluh@forward.com.
On the campaign trail, Bernie Sanders didn’t relish talking about his Jewishness. But one of his closest aides is more than willing to go there in a new book about the senator and former presidential candidate — who is flirting with a third run for the White House in 2024. Sanders, who came closer than…
Rep. Andy Levin, a Jewish congressman from Michigan, is pledging to take donations he has received from corporate PACs and industry groups that also back Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 election, and to send them to an initiative that supports abortion rights. Levin is competing with Rep. Haley Stevens in a rare incumbent-vs.-incumbent…
Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, said on Wednesday she was “concerned” about the allegations of antisemitism by Lufthansa after the German airline allegedly kicked all identifiably Jewish passengers off a flight from New York City because some of them were not complying with mask regulations. “Acting as…
Andy Levin, a two-term Jewish congressman from Detroit, is pushing back against attacks by groups that portray him as being hostile to Israel as he faces a tough re-election battle. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee and other pro-Israel groups are actively backing his non-Jewish rival, Rep. Haley Stevens, in the rare incumbent-vs.-incumbent primary to…
David Brog, a former executive for the largest pro-Israel evangelical group, is seeking to return to Capitol Hill, close to 20 years after serving on Capitol Hill as a Senate staffer to Sen. Arlen Specter. To do that he will need to win a crowded Republican primary in Las Vegas in a party dominated by…
A major Jewish Democratic group is backing a non-Jewish candidate over his Jewish rival in a rare contest between two incumbent Democrats. The Jewish Democratic Council of America said it is “proud to endorse” Haley Stevens over Andy Levin in the primary to represent Michigan’s redrawn 11th Congressional District, which includes Detroit’s northwest suburbs. The…
Jared Kushner, former White House senior advisor, is writing a memoir billed as a behind-the-scenes account of his father-in-law Donald Trump’s campaigns for president, and Kushner’s work in his administration. In “Breaking History: A White House Memoir” slated for publication by Broadside Books in August, Kushner will take readers “inside debates in the Oval Office,…
A rematch primary between two Democrats for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives has turned into a hot contest for the Jewish vote with both candidates investing in outreach, and Jewish groups increasing their spending ahead of Tuesday’s election. Independent expenditure committees formed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and Democratic…
