Do Jews still want to call God their Lord, King and Master? Maybe not. Some words and phrases like this won’t resonate for many American Jews, said Rabbi Edward Feld, the senior editor of a new prayer book for the Conservative movement, Siddur Lev Shalem. “The word ‘king’ is just empty for people living in…
With his win in New Hampshire, Senator Bernie Sanders has officially become the first Jew to win a U.S. presidential primary. It is a historic achievement by any measure – but it is also a victory that is something of an orphan, celebrated enthusiastically neither by Sanders himself, who, in his victory speech, referred to…
In December of 1988, I traveled behind the Iron Curtain to research my book, A Tree Still Stands about Jewish youth in the Eastern Bloc, and how they felt being Jewish during this time of rapid change before the fall of the Berlin Wall. As I walked down the narrow cobblestone streets, wending my way…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and the New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman are not clowning around. Trump fired back on Twitter on Wednesday against the News after the tabloid published a photo of Trump edited to make him appear similar to “The Joker,” a clown-like villain from the Batman comic series. “Dopey Mort…
Bernie Sanders isn’t the only question on the minds of Jewish voters in the aftermath of the New Hampshire primary. Many are also likely to spend some time trying to figure out what they think about John Kasich, the Ohio governor who suddenly rocketed into the top of the pack Tuesday by finishing in second…
UPDATED MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — The blaring music and the enthusiastic crowd gathered to hear Hillary Clinton at Southern New Hampshire University Tuesday night could easily have given the impression this was a victory celebration, not a gathering marking a crushing 21% defeat. But when Clinton, flanked on stage by her husband and daughter, ended…
Bernie Sanders made history Tuesday night when he became the first major-party Jewish candidate in U.S. history to win a presidential primary election. With the late results in New Hampshire still trickling in, the Independent senator from Vermont was projected to handily defeat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary. He had…
The biggest unsecured creditors in the bankruptcy case of the massive social service charity FEGS Health & Human Services are seeking tens of millions of dollars for a joint retirement plan serving thousands who work for New York Jewish charities. The claims, by UJA-Federation of New York and by a government agency that insures private…
When Marc Daniels sells you his campaign yarmulkes at $10 dollars a pop, it’s not just the religious headgear he wants you to take. What he’s selling, he tells me on the phone, is the Jewish principle of “tikkun olam.” The yarmulkes, which he recently sold at the Iowa caucuses, come in red or blue,…
(JTA) — Every morning, Bernie Sanders would wake up at 4:10 a.m. to pick apples and pears. Leaving the cabin he shared with a few other American college student volunteers, Sanders would have a quick bite of bread before heading out to the orchard. After 2 1/2 hours of work, he and the other 20 or…
It was at the tail end of his encounter with Iowa’s Republican electorate — one day before the state’s February 1 primary caucus — that Donald Trump almost plopped a few dollars of his vast fortune into the communion plate at a church in Council Bluffs, Iowa. That’s the plate meant to catch any stray…
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