Dov Hikind, an influential Orthodox Jewish Democrat and New York State assemblyman, is crossing party lines to endorse John McCain just eight days before the election, pointing to Barack Obama’s ties to a controversial Chicago pastor. Hikind, who represents a heavily Orthodox area of Brooklyn, has drawn criticism from fellow Democrats for breaking party lines…
Once upon a time – not that long ago – Sundays were my favorite day to hunker down in the kitchen, tune into NPR, whip out the leftover CSA vegetables, and cook/bake a few delicious dishes with leftovers that would keep me happy all week. But not these days. These days, my Sundays are crammed…
The Gray Lady threw it’s support behind Dennis Shulman, the blind rabbi and psychologist challenging incumbent Rep. Scott Garrett in New Jersey’s 5th District.
The Pennsylvania Republican State Party has fired a strategist over an e-mail sent to Jewish voters that warns a vote for Barack Obama would be a “tragic mistake” with parallels to the “ignored warning signs of the 1930s and 1940s.” The e-mail, which a GOP spokesman says was sent without the party’s authorization, falsely warns…
U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg has built “a solid reputation delivering federal funds to New Jersey for mass transit, beach replenishment and road projects” over four decades in the Senate, but the Philadelphia Inquirer calls former Congressman Dick Zimmer “a viable alternative.” The Inky threw its support and endorsement in the New Jersey Senate election behind…
Were it not for Yukiko Sugihara, who died on October 8 at age 94, I might not be writing this column, nor would there be some 55,000 descendants of the Jews her husband helped save from the Holocaust. Wife of Chiune Sugihara, Japan’s consul in Kovno, Lithuania, in 1940, she supported her husband’s issuing 2,139…
Haifa, Israel — Presidents of all seven of Israel’s public universities have told students to stay at home on November 2, the first day of the 2008-2009 academic year. The leaders are vowing that there will be no classes or lectures during the first week of school, unless government funding for higher education is dramatically…
Boca Raton, Florida — Much like the snowbirds who flock to sunny South Florida each fall, older Jewish voters may be warming to Democrat Barack Obama as pragmatic pocketbook concerns about Social Security, health care and paying bills push their doubts aside. Democrats and many seniors who support Obama say they have seen a shift among…
Toward the end of a long campaign in which Barack Obama spent months trying to reassure Jewish communities that he does not secretly harbor an anti-Jewish agenda, something ironic happened: John McCain tried to tar his opponent by linking him, indirectly, to an organization associated with a particularly Jewish strain of 1960s radicalism. Bill Ayers,…
Lod, Israel — Lod is on edge. In the wake of the wild rioting between Arabs and Jews during Yom Kippur in the northern city of Acre, locals fear that Lod — a city of 75,000 located just southwest of Tel Aviv — could be the next mixed city where relations turn violent. Acre was considered…
Sharon Rappaport and her 16-year-old son Josh wandered through the college fair at the Solomon Schechter School of Westchester, joining dozens of other families in peppering admissions counselors with questions about campus life, courses and costs. As a junior at Solomon Schechter, located in the affluent Westchester community of Hartsdale, Josh is just beginning to…
