In this week’s Yid Lit, debut author Adam Levin discusses his novel “The Instructions.” The story follows a 10-year-old scholar and weapons expert with a messiah complex who gets kicked out of two yeshivas then stages a coup with a band of Israelites in his secular school after his identity is questioned and he falls…
Republicans and Democrats may be done with their electoral battle, but the fight between their Jewish surrogates is just beginning. It is a struggle not only about the Jewish narrative of the 2010 Republican earthquake, but also a fight to prove each side’s raison d’être. The Republican Jewish Coalition, which has spent millions on campaign…
Benjamin Netanyahu was interrupted five times by protesters who shouted and held up signs while the Israeli prime minister was delivering an address on Monday to the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America. The protesters shouted “the loyalty oaths delegitimize Israel” and “the occupation delegitimizes Israel” while being escorted from the room….
Livni Calls for Resumption of Peace Talks November 9, 2010, 3:34 p.m. At the closing plenary of the annual General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni called for a resumption of peace talks, and for a two-state solution. Speaking in the last hours of the three-day conference, Livni…
The day before his interview with the Forward, Great Britain’s first Jewish ambassador to the State of Israel met with a senior member of the government to discuss Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank — a topic on which London and Jerusalem sharply disagree. “In the course of this discussion he started quoting various…
How American Jews voted in the 2010 election, and what the results mean for the Jewish community and Israel policy, are the subjects of this week’s Reporters’ Roundtable. Host Josh Nathan-Kazis speaks with Forward associate editor Karen Loew, who co-edits our politics blog, MitzVote, and with Washington-based staff writer Nathan Guttman. <strong>Subscribe to Forward podcasts…
Cross-posted from J.J. Goldberg’s blog. O.K., so how bad was it for the Jews? Not as bad as for Democrats in general. A few Jewish lawmakers were defeated, a smaller number of new ones were elected. A quick look at who’s in and who’s out offers some intriguing insights about the current state of American…
The Jewish Vote: As a Republican wave swept the House of Representatives, 66% of Jews voted Democratic, a survey shows. Jew-liticos will bid adieu to five Jewish incumbents and need to make connections with new unknown Tea Partiers. (The Forward) Tell Me More: Struggling to make sense of Tuesday evening’s events? The Forward’s opinion page…
Crossposted from JTA The following is a list of the 39 Jewish members — 12 senators and 27 representatives — who are expected to serve in the 112th U.S. Congress, which is set to convene in January: U.S. SENATE Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)* Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)** Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.) Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) Al Franken (D-Minn.) Herb…
What is a school district of 123 students going to do with $1.6 million in federal grants earmarked for education reform? That’s the happy quandary facing the Kiryas Joel Village Union Free School District, a public school district for special education students in upstate New York, in the Satmar Hasidic town of Kiryas Joel. The…
Misha Avramoff, 71, has a little problem with his pronouns. “We bombed the King David Hotel,” he said in an interview is his office in Project Ezra’s space, on New York City’s Lower East Side, as an aside in the self-narrated — and decidedly nonlinear — story of his life. It is hard to picture…
