Netanyahu, Gore and bipartisan group of dignitaries remember the late Sen. Joe Lieberman at memorial service
“America has lost one of its finest public servants,” Netanyahu said. “The Jewish people have lost one of its most noble sons"
Al Gore
The Latest
-
Fast Forward -
Culture WATCH: Trailer For Mensch Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Sequel”
The 2016 election has, so far, not turned out well for the climate: Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order initiating the unraveling of much of President Obama’s progressive legacy on climate change. But that election might do some long-term good for climate change awareness — or so, at least, hopes former Vice President and…
-
News Al Gore: Ivanka Trump Is ‘Very Concerned’ About Climate Change
Former Vice President Al Gore had kind words on Monday night for Ivanka Trump, following his meeting earlier with her and President-elect Donald Trump to discuss climate change. “It’s no secret that Ivanka Trump is very committed to having a climate policy that makes sense for our country and for our world and that was…
-
Fast Forward Al Gore Talks Climate Change With Ivanka Trump — and Donald Too
Former Vice President Al Gore said he discussed climate change with Ivanka Trump Monday, in another sign that the first daughter will have an outsized role in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration. “I had a lengthy and very productive session with the president-elect. It was a sincere search for areas of common ground,” the former vice…
-
News Al Gore Says Stiff Competition Forced Sale of TV Network to Al Jazeera
Al Gore said on Tuesday that tough competition from major U.S. television networks forced him to sell Current TV, a struggling progressive cable channel, to Al Jazeera, and he praised the Arabic news broadcaster’s coverage of climate change. Gore, a former vice president who won a Nobel Peace Prize for raising awareness about the problems…
-
Opinion Who’s Afraid of Al-Jazeera?
When Al-Jazeera announced in early January that it was edging its way more aggressively into the American market (through the purchase of Al Gore’s fairly moribund channel, Current TV, for $500 million), the news was met with a predictable dollop of fear and loathing. Bill O’Reilly jumped to call the Qatari-based channel “anti-American.” Groups like…
-
News Al-Jazeera May Not Be TV Bogeyman
In the Middle East, networks financed by Western countries — such as France24, the BBC’s Arabic Service, Russia’s RT and Voice of America — have long been a staple of local airwaves. Now, the United States may be about to experience a Middle East-owned network talking back. Much remains unclear about what Al-Jazeera’s planned new…
-
Fast Forward Al Jazeera Deal Sparks Concern for Jews
Jewish leaders have expressed “concern” about the impending entry of the Qatari-owned Al Jazeera network to the U..S television market, citing its record of anti-Israeli coverage and support for extremist Muslim regimes. Both Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents and Abe Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League publicly voiced their apprehensions…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News Exclusive: ADL chief compares student protesters to ISIS and al-Qaida in address to Republican officials
- 2
Opinion Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla was never going to help Palestinians
- 3
Culture I ranked the NYC mayoral candidates exclusively based on their bagel orders
- 4
News A Jewish farmer drove 600 miles to rescue a century-old synagogue. Now he’s building a new one in a cornfield.
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion Trump is forcing liberal Zionists to confront an extraordinarily inconvenient truth
-
Politics ‘I will work to protect you,’ Mamdani tells Orthodox voters in interview with Hasidic paper
-
Culture 10 things we can (probably) expect from ‘Spaceballs 2’
-
Yiddish World A concert in memory of theater pioneer Joseph Papp
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
