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.
A secret 2008 recording of a conversation between a scandal-plagued governor and a future candidate for that same office is roiling Illinois politics. The recording between then-governor Rod Blagojevich and major Democratic donor J.B. Pritzker, now running for his party’s nomination for governor, features a discussion of who Blagojevich should appoint to the U.S. Senate…
Rabbi Robert Barr set out in October to become America’s first rabbi in Congress. This week, he ended his race. In a statement issued Tuesday, the Reform rabbi from Cincinnati announced his withdrawal from the race, claiming that he is doing so in order to make room for Aftab Pureval, an up-and-coming local Democrat considered…
Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, has finally gotten his own presidential nickname. “Little Adam Schiff” is how the president of the United States chose to describe the Jewish congressman in a Monday morning tweet. By Trump standards, getting a derogatory nickname may be a sign of political importance, which now…
Carly Rae Brown tuned into the livestream early, making sure she didn’t miss a minute of her role model, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, interviewed by the Forward’s Jane Eisner Thursday evening, February 1. Sitting in front of her mother’s laptop computer, the 9-year-old fourth grader from Evansville, Indiana, watched anxiously. Answering a…
A sigh of relief was heard Thursday night across a packed synagogue sanctuary in Washington as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reassured concerned liberals that she is not retiring from the bench. “Many people have asked me when are you going to step down,” she acknowledged, as a member of the audience shouted out “never.” Ginsburg,…
“I used to think I knew Michael Oren. This is no one I know, or wish to know.” This January 24 tweet by Tamara Cofman Wittes, a Middle East scholar from the Brookings Institution and a former Obama administration official, may have summed up what many in Washington feel now about the former Israeli ambassador…
When Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein met with President Trump in December, days before his planned testimony in front of the House Intelligence Committee, the president asked Rosenstein if he was “on my team, CNN reported. Rosenstein, who seemed to have been taken aback by the question, responded, “We’re all on your team, Mr. President.”…
Rep. Adam Schiff represents California’s 28th congressional district, which includes much of Los Angeles County. Schiff, 57, was first elected to Congress in 2000 and is now the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. Schiff’s meticulous and detail-oriented style, combined with his soft-spoken manner, has made him one of the most effective legislators involved…
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