The saga of the American Jewish Congress’s resignation from a pro-Israel campus coalition took a bizarre turn this week when the organization partly retracted its retraction of the resignation. After telling the Forward last week that a letter of resignation tendered to the Israel on Campus Coalition had been written by an assistant regional director…
We’ve already posted a few times on the Edwards speech at the Herzliya Conference. But you need to read the whole thing to see just how hawkish a chord he struck (Iran must be stopped from getting nuclear weapons, the regime cannot be trusted, the Europeans are too soft on the issue, the U.N. resolution…
John Edwards’ hawkish remarks at the Herzliya Conference on Iran has drawn liberal criticism – in Canada.
Yes. During a press briefing last week in London.
If Al Franken runs for Senate, can he appeal to the state’s rural voters, as well as the Democratic base in the Twin Cities? In this week’s Forward, we took at look at the possibility of an emerging Al Franken-Norm Coleman match-up, and found that at this very early date, Democratic insiders are far from…
Also on Aguthath’s agenda: A “Get Law” for Maryland, which would require men filing for civil divorce to also file an affidavit stating that all barriers to remarriage – including religious barriers like the need for a get, or Jewish divorce – have been removed by the seeker of the dissoluton.
Here’s another item for the Forward’s compendium of strange bedfellows: The American Civil Liberties Union is joining forces with the ultra-Orthodox organization Agudath Israel of America to protest the introduction of X-ray scanners at U.S. aiports. The scanners beam low level x-rays through people’s clothing, and although “cloaking” software is supposed to introduce a level…
As Jennifer Siegel reports this week, Senator Norm Coleman appears to be bracing for a tough reelection campaign in 2008. He has joined Democrats in criticizing President Bush’s proposed troop surge in Iraq. So it’s worth watching to see how he operates as the newly named ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on…
Israeli-American billionaire Haim Saban, a friend of the Clintons, is the top money man when it comes to contributing to American political campaigns (see this report).
It’s official: New York Rep. Gary Ackerman is now the chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Middle East. Judging from recent history, Ackerman will speak out strongly against any administration effor to pressure Israel; but, unlike Republican leaders in the last Congress, the New York Democrat is likely to support White House efforts to…
Correction: Due to an editing error, Rabbi Steve Gutow’s name was mispelled and Richard Foltin was misidentified in the print version of this story. Washington — President Bush’s pledge in his State of the Union speech to develop alternative energy sources and to end America’s dependency on foreign oil struck a positive chord with the…
