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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Israel News Why Netanyahu was not on Biden’s first round of calls as president
It took Netanyahu only a couple of hours to tweet his congratulation to President Joe Biden after he declared victory against President Donald Trump on Nov. 7. It took another 10 days for Netanyahu to arrange a phone call with Biden. As of Monday, 13 days after Biden entered the Oval Office, a call between…
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Fast Forward Modern Orthodox attorney from Atlanta will represent Trump at impeachment trial
Former President Donald Trump announced on Sunday a new team of lawyers that will represent him in the Senate impeachment trial next week after five attorneys on the legal team quit. Among them is David Schoen, a modern Orthodox Jew from Atlanta, Georgia. Schoen, an expert in federal criminal defense work, is a regular guest…
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Israel News Cynical ploy or positive development? How liberal Zionists see Netanyahu’s courting of Arab voters
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a lot more than his job to lose in Israel’s upcoming March 23 election, its fourth in less than two years. If he falls from his perch as Israel’s longest-serving leader, Netanyahu would have to face the prosecutors at his corruption trial as an average citizen. So he is hoping…
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News After serving in his administration, Elliott Abrams hasn’t changed his (negative) views about Trump
Elliott Abrams was in his State Department office when the Jan. 6 insurrection broke out at the Capitol. Because the office was in a secure location without cell phone service, Abrams, then the Trump administration’s special representative on Iran, was not aware of what was happening. When he learned of the assault that Trump supporters…
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News NYC council candidate under fire for antisemitic tweets calls trips to Israel ‘propaganda’
Moumita Ahmed, one of the eight candidates running in the Feb. 2 non-partisan special election for the New York City Council seat vacated by former Councilman Rory Lancman, who took a job in Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration, said during a debate on Tuesday that she supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Last week,…
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Fast Forward Mayoral candidates boycott Brooklyn forum amid controversy over racist remarks by local official
A group of New York City mayoral candidates, including Comptroller Scott Stringer and entrepreneur Andrew Yang, are boycotting a candidate forum hosted by the Brooklyn Democratic County Committee on Sunday to protest their handling of the publishing of racist and anti-Palestinian posts by one of their officials. In since-deleted tweets, first reported by The Brooklyn…
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News This man wants to be the next U.S. ambassador to Israel. ‘If it happens, I will say it’s bashert’
Michael Adler has never been in the foreign service. But Adler, a Miami-based real estate developer and Democratic party donation-bundler, has a close relationship with President Joe Biden going back more than four decades. And Adler, who is turning 70 and has been an amateur pilot since age 21, said he has spent so much…
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News INTERVIEW: Israeli’s new Labor Party chief Merav Michaeli draws inspiration from Biden/Harris
Merav Michaeli, the Knesset member elected on Sunday to lead Israel’s beleaguered Labor Party, cleared her schedule last Wednesday to watch Kamala Harris be sworn in as the first female vice president in American history. For Michaeli, a former journalist and staunch feminist, this glass-ceiling moment was very important. “This gives other women the example,…
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