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.
Steve Bannon is taking dead aim at Gary Cohn, who appears to be Exhibit A in the flamethrower’s battle against so-called “globalists” in the Trump White House. In his first interview since leaving the administration, Bannon slammed Cohn’s criticism of Trump over Charlottesville. “If you don’t agree with (what Trump is doing), they you have…
A new 30 second ad is going after New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker for his refusal to support the Taylor Force Act, a bill aimed at cutting U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority until it stops paying stipends to convicted terrorists and their families. “He ran here as a friend to Israel,” the ad narrator…
Back in 2015, a tweet from Ivanka Trump praising an undocumented immigrant seemed perfectly inocuous. “We love this story about an undocumented immigrant who worked her way up on Wall Street,” she tweeted, two years before becoming the first daughter and adviser to the president. But after President Trump pulled the plug on DACA, Dreamers,…
When Hurricane Andrew hit Florida in 1992, it tore part of the roof off Bet Shira Congregation in Miami, leaving the synagogue flooded for days. It took two weeks before electricity was restored, and two months until activity in the Conservative congregation could be resumed. Andrew was a Category 5 hurricane, just like Hurricane Irma,…
Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s ousted counter-terrorism adviser, is off to Israel to deliver a keynote speech at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, a private college outside Tel Aviv. An invitation to the conference, scheduled for September 11 to 14, lists Gorka as the main speaker on the conference’s first day, just before a planned memorial…
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is considering his next step in politics, and his options, Politico reporterd, are wide open. By the end of the month, Garcetti is expected to decide whether he’ll join the already crowded Democratic race for governor of California, a position that will open next year. He may, alternatively, chose to…
Responding to criticism that he had maintained an open line with the heads of Israel’s largest daily newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he talked to owner Sheldon Adelson “.75 times a week.” Adelson, a Las Vegas casino magnate and Republican mega-donor, also owns Israel Hayom, a daily newspaper usually viewed as supportive of Netanyahu….
When former U.N. ambassador John Bolton complained that “staff changes in the White House” have made it impossible for him to present his views to the president, most took it as a sign of Chief of Staff’s John Kelly policy to control access to Trump. But Mike Cernovich, author of the Trump Dispatches blog and…
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