The Other [Uncovered] March: Think only Glenn Beck can lure tens of thousands to the National Mall for a march? Well, think again — because over the weekend, an estimated 200,000 liberals attended the “One Nation Working Together March,” organized by unions, civil rights groups and other left-inclined groups. (The Week) Joining the Caucus: While…
The interviews we see in Holocaust documentaries are but fragments of lives. Subjects talk about their horrendous concentration camp experiences, and the story ends. But suffering has continued in Belarus for many of the elderly, who are among the poorest Jews in the world. Unlike survivors who moved to relatively comfortable circumstances in Israel or…
A previously little known, earnest Christian woman running for a high-profile office her first time out confronts derision, scorn and outrage in 2010 thanks to dredged up 14-year-old comments in which she criticized masturbation for its purported role in stoking lust and discouraging intimacy. She’s pummeled, eviscerated, all but left for politically dead. That’s Republican…
Glass Half Full: With the election 29 days away, Democrats are gaining hope as polls make them out to be more competitive than they seemed over the summer. Or at least talking heads are saying so: As Axelrod said last week in Google/Politico’s election preview, “You’re going to see Democrats winning in places that you…
Extremely Extreme: Florida’s 8th congressional district is home to one of the country’s more distinctive contests, as we’ve reported here: liberal Jewish Democrat Alan Grayson vying against conservative Christian Republican Daniel Webster. To Webster’s already solid conservative Christian bona fides — he works to restrict abortion, fought for the state to force-feed Terry Schiavo and…
Rahm Emanuel is leaving, David Axelrod might be on his way out, Larry Summers will be gone by the fall, and Peter Orszag has already moved on. Are there any Jews left in the White House? The latest wave of departures of senior White House advisers seems to have taken its toll on the Jewish…
’‘100 Voices: A Journey Home’ — Cantors Treated Like Rock Stars During Visit to Poland Had anyone in pre- or postwar Poland predicted that one day, 72 cantors — men and women — would be joined by a Polish children’s choir and the 100-strong Wielki National Opera Orchestra and Chorus to perform “Hatikvah” and “Ani…
Host Josh Nathan-Kazis speaks with staff writer Nathan Guttman about the implications of J Street’s admission that it has received money from George Soros. Then the Forward’s comic artist, Eli Valley, joins the conversation, discussing his creative process and his latest satirical column, in which the oversized head of reporter Helen Thomas inspires young Jews…
Former congressman Robert Wexler has been out of politics for nearly a year, but in his home state of Florida he still has a say, especially with the state’s large Jewish community. That is why Wexler’s endorsement of governor Charlie Crist for Florida’s Senate seat drew much attention. Wexler preferred to back the Republican-turned-Independent candidate…
Holocaust survivors denouncing the Jewish establishment would be a spectacle in almost any venue — and all the more so when it is under the bright lights of a congressional hearing. The issue at hand before the House subcommittee on commercial and administrative law on September 22 was the Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2010,…
Depending on whom you ask, the new mosque planned for a quiet block in southern Brooklyn is either the latest target in a wave of coordinated anti-Muslim sentiment, part of an insidious effort to spread political Islam throughout America or simply a parking nightmare waiting to happen. On Sunday morning, September 26, partisans of each…
