Nathan Guttman, staff writer, was the Forward’s Washington bureau chief. He joined the staff in 2006 after serving for five years as Washington correspondent for the Israeli dailies Haaretz and The Jerusalem Post. In Israel, he was the features editor for Ha’aretz and chief editor of Channel 1 TV evening news. He was born in Canada and grew up in Israel. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Nathan Guttman
By Nathan Guttman
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The trove of leaked financial documents known as the Paradise Papers, have put Israeli businessman Dan Gertler in the spotlight, a position he usually avoids. Gertler, who at the age of 43 has a net worth estimated at $1.2 billion, made his fortune from mining diamonds and other materials in Africa. According to the leaked…
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Six-year-old Arabella Kushner is big in China—and her grandfather, President Trump, is showing her off in diplomatic meetings. Last year, shortly after Trump’s inauguration, Ivanka Trump posted a video of her daughter singing a song in Mandarin. The video became an instant hit in China. On Wednesday, President Trump sought to break the ice with…
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Every day seems to bring some more bad news for Jared Kushner, the presidential son-in-law and top adviser. The latest comes from a massive document dump of off-shore bank accounts, provided by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The so-called “Paradise Papers” offer a trove of information about accounts used by international billionaires to stash…
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is in the midst of a drive to battle corruption and consolidate power in the kingdom, jailing 11 princes, four ministers and dozens of businessmen last week. As David Ignatius wrote in The Washington Post on Sunday, the 32-year-old crown prince has developed a special relationship with the person…
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The Russians didn’t only back President Trump to attack Hillary Clinton — they also used social media to back rival Bernie Sanders. And they did it but trying to turn the tousle-haired senior citizen into a cartoon superhero. One such ad attributed to a group called LGBT United, promoted a “Buff Bernie” coloring book, which,…
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The indictments of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates shed a spotlight on Andrew Weissmann, special counsel Robert Mueller’s top lieutenant. Weissmann took the lead in the case, presenting the indictment to the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Weissmann, a former New York prosecutor, has a reputation as a very tough adversary. “Frankly, I can’t…
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George Soros and Paul Singer have very little in common: One is a liberal, the other a conservative. One gives millions to the Democrats, the other does the same for Republicans. Both, however, share at least one thing: They’re Jewish. And now they are also both targets of Breitbart News. “Billionaire bookends of globalist opposition…
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