Jacob Kornbluh is the Forward’s senior political reporter. Follow him on Twitter @jacobkornbluh or email [email protected].
Jacob KornbluhSenior Political Reporter
By Jacob Kornbluh
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News At the first major Israeli-American conference since Trump’s loss, less rancor and partisanship
More than 3,000 people gathered in Florida this past weekend for the Israeli-American Council’s conference, an annual affair where pro-Trump forces that celebrated so enthusiastically at the group’s last convention were either absent or notably subdued. That 2019 conference (the group did not meet in 2020 due to COVID-19) felt much like a campaign rally…
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News ‘The president doesn’t like you guys now’: The inside story of Trump’s rage against Netanyahu
A new Hebrew book published on Sunday by Israeli journalist Barak Ravid gives a behind-the-scenes look at what is now being revealed as a rocky U.S.-Israel relationship during the Trump administration, but one that led to normalization deals between Israel and the Arab world. “F**k him,” former President Donald Trump said about former Israeli Prime…
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Fast Forward Georgia’s Trump-defying secretary of state looks to Israel for inspiration
Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state attacked by former President Donald Trump and his allies for certifying the election in his state for Joe Biden, still calls himself a proud Republican. But he’s longing for more moderate leadership for his party and the nation. He points to Israel, with its new, diverse governing coalition…
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Fast Forward This upstart Republican wants to unseat Marjorie Taylor Greene
Marjorie Taylor Greene has harassed colleagues, flouted Congress’s COVID safety rules and issued a torrent of remarks and tweets deemed antisemitic since the Georgia Republican was elected to Congress in 2020. If she wins re-election next year, she would join what many are predicting will be a Republican majority in 2023. Jennifer Strahan says it…
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News Bloomberg: Partisanship blinds too many Jews to antisemitism within their own parties
At a fundraising dinner Monday, Michael Bloomberg criticized Jewish Americans for too often failing to call out antisemitism when it comes from political allies. “Partisanship can be blinding,” the former New York City mayor said in a speech at the UJA-Federation of New York’s annual Wall Street Dinner in Manhattan. “It blinds us to shameful…
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News Bob Dole fought to free Soviet Jews
Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, who died on Sunday at 98, had a complex record on Israel but a much more clear-cut one on Soviet Jews, whose cause he championed as a senator and Senate leader. “The freedom of enslaved people is America’s business, and freedom is a task we must apply,” Dole, a Republican…
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Books Obsessed about positive coverage, Trump worked on Abraham Accords while in hospital with COVID, new book claims
Former President Donald Trump worked on expanding the Abraham Accords from his hospital bed where he was being treated for a life-threatening case of COVID-19, hoping the positive news coming out of the Middle East would distract the country’s attention away from his illness, his former chief of staff reveals in a new memoir. “Still…
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News Pandemic Hanukkah at Biden’s White House feels like a family gathering
Absent were the bands and choir performing traditional holiday songs. Notably missing, too, were the signature lamb-chop trays and assorted latkes. And in the pandemic-limited crowd of 150, dotted with yarmulkes with the presidential seal, a lone member of the Hasidic community of Borough Park, Brooklyn — a community that voted in large numbers for…
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