A Jewish Voter’s Guide to the Candidates as Wisconsin Votes

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By Nathan Guttman April 5, 2016

By this point, the five main presidential candidates still standing have uttered oceans of words on their foreign policy views.

Some statements contradict each other. Others just vary, or are nuanced, according to the candidate’s audience or circumstances. Trying to figure out what they add up to in terms of clear stands on specific issues is not always easy.

But here is the Forward’s best attempt to do so for all of them; our one-stop reference for readers on key issues of Jewish concern.

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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.

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