— Vice President Joe Biden said the United States’ commitments to Israel will remain the same under President-elect Donald Trump. “I stand here to tell you that I have no doubt, none whatsoever, that in the Trump administration there will be no diminution of support as a consequence of this transition,” Biden said Wednesday night…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a telephone conversation with Hillary Clinton. During the phone call on Wednesday, less than a full day after the Democratic candidate for U.S. president conceded defeat, Netanyahu thanked Clinton for her support of Israel. Netanyahu also told Clinton that she has an open invitation to visit Israel, said a…
WASHINGTON ( — Seventy percent of Jewish voters favored Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, with 25 percent opting for Donald Trump, according to a poll. The national survey, which was commissioned by J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group, again showed a community that trends more Democratic than the general population. Clinton…
Bernie Sanders set aside his grievances with Hillary Clinton during the general election, crisscrossing the nation on behalf of his ex-primary rival. He’s keeping his silence, though, in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the November election. “We have nothing polite to say,” Sanders adviser told CNN’s Jeff Zeleny on Wednesday, refusing to…
— Yaffa Eliach, a prominent historian of the Holocaust who opened the first center for Holocaust studies in the United States, has died. Eliach, a Holocaust survivor, died Wednesday at 79, The Jewish Press reported. In 1974, she opened the Center for Holocaust Studies in Brooklyn. It later merged with the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New…
— President-elect Donald Trump’s first priority must be to “address the wounds of an extraordinarily divisive contest,” the American Jewish Committee said in a congratulatory statement. “American democracy has spoken after a long and bitterly-fought campaign,” David Harris, the group’s CEO, said in a statement released Wednesday morning. “We wish President-elect Trump well as he…
It’s a frequent gag in Washington, D.C. that there’s no more dangerous place to be than between New York Senator Chuck Schumer and a camera. Schumer will have to use his skills with the press next January, as he becomes Senate minority leader in a town where both houses of Congress and the presidency will…
WASHINGTON — The Jewish contingent to the U.S. House of Representatives grew from 19 to 23 in Tuesday’s elections, doubling its Republican representation from one to two. Five Jews overall were newly elected to the House, while one Jewish congressman in Florida is retiring. The Senate Jewish contingent dropped from nine to eight. Three Democrats…
Many Muslims around the world expressed dismay on Wednesday at Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president, saying they feared it might raise tensions between the West and Islam and contribute to radicalisation. While Egypt’s president made an early congratulatory call to Trump, ordinary Muslims were worried that his victory would be a propaganda gift to…
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian man wielding a screwdriver attempted to stab an Israeli soldier manning a West Bank checkpoint. The soldier was not injured during the Wednesday morning attack at the northern West Bank checkpoint near the Palestinian village of Hawara. He was protected from the point of the weapon by a bullet-proof vest he…
Donald Trump’s election as president raises the prospect the United States will pull out of the nuclear pact it signed last year with Iran, alienating Washington from its allies and potentially freeing Iran to act on its ambitions. Outgoing President Barack Obama’s administration touted the deal, a legacy foreign policy achievement, as a way to…
