Susie Davidson is a Boston-based contributor to the Huffington Post, the Jerusalem Post, Haaretz and other media. She has authored books on the Holocaust and written two poetry collections. Her next book will examine the continuing social and political influences of punk rock.
General Michael T. Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser who resigned Monday night after reports that he had possibly lied to the FBI, spoke at Ahavath Torah Congregation in Stoughton, Massachusets as a part of their Hausman Memorial Speaker Series in August — and, as it turns out, also made false statements there that were…
The Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action (JALSA) held its annual meeting at Temple Israel in Boston on Sunday, January 29. Entitled “Joining Together for Social Justice,” the event, attended by several hundred friends, members and supporters, featured a keynote address by Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh. Following the meeting, many attendees proceeded to…
Jews were well represented at Saturday’s Women’s March on Washington. But with attendance estimates as yet not definitively calculated but ranging in varied sources from “several hundred thousand,” to “far exceeding the turnout at Friday’s inauguration,” to “1.5 million,” most nationalities were as well. Still, in protests ranging from the Civil Rights era, to the…
“I’m glad to be here,” said master pontificator and former legendary congressman Barney Frank, at the DNC Jewish Roundtable in the Philadelphia Convention Center on July 28th. “I would even be gladder if this was in the same place as the Convention,” he grudgingly continued. “The idea of having two Convention halls several miles apart…
Sen. Barbara Boxer began addressing yesterday’s DNC’s Jewish Roundtable at the Philadelphia Convention Center as people were shuffling in. “It’s like a Jewish wedding,” she proclaimed. “Everybody’s late!” Boxer, a Brooklyn native who has served in the U.S. Congress since 1982, expressed bewilderment that any members of the Jewish faith could be voting for Trump,…
The centrally-located Philadelphia Convention Center, a DNC shuttle bus ride away from the Wells Fargo Center main convention stage, has hosted numerous daily caucuses and councils this week. On Tuesday and Thursday, Jewish Rountables featured speakers, discussion, and training forums. At the Democratic National Committee’s Jewish Roundtable, Rep. Jared Polis urged attendees to increase the…
At the Democratic National Committee’s Jewish roundtable on Tuesday, Congressman Jerrold Nadler told those assembled that the Trump campaign had passed the line into fascism. Nadler said that he had been a very active antiwar protester in his younger days, “but always felt that people used the word fascist too loosely.” “However,” he added, “this…
Though food options abound at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Mordy Siegal is committed to providing convenient kosher food to the hungry masses. At the Wells Fargo Center, Kosher Grill is humming. Proprietor Mordy Siegal of Chicago said the stand, offering Polish sausages, hot dogs and other meat entrees, fed 10% of the entire…
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