To understand the reason that Alan Gross, an American citizen, has been languishing in a Cuban jail for the past two years, it is instructive to listen to an exchange that took place recently at a hearing of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee. Rep. David Rivera (R-Fla.) demanded that Wendy Sherman, undersecretary of state…
Here’s how crazy things have gotten: An emergency call went out recently from the heart of the Jewish Establishment — from the very epicenter of macherdom, the twin citadels of Jewish defense, the Anti-Defamation League and American Jewish Committee themselves, in a rare moment of joint action — for American Jews to unite around Israel…
In what could be seen as closing the barn doors after the horses have bolted, two major Jewish organizations are calling on Democrats and Republicans to dial down partisan attacks on each other over Israel in the upcoming election cycle. So far, the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League’s call for a pledge to…
Last month, a fundraiser for GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney made manifest what insiders have long known to be true: Romney, currently seen as the Republican frontrunner, is the hands down favorite of the Republican Jewish establishment. The September 26 fundraiser, held in the New York law office of longtime Republican activist Philip Rosen, was…
In Utah, former governor Jon Huntsman is known in some circles as a “Jack Mormon,” local parlance for someone who might claim affiliation with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but is less than active in his local Mormon Church. And among Utah Jews, that seems to count as a definite plus. “Jews…
Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and a titan of the religious right, has some ideas on which Jews would make good number twos for John McCain. Land tells CBSNews.com: I think that the vice presidential choice that John McCain makes is probably the most important choice he’s…
Entertainer extraordinaire and Hollywood liberal stalwart Barbra Streisand fields some questions from Politico on the 2008 presidential campaign. Among other tidbits, there’s this exchange: POLITICO: There’s been a lot of discussion about Israel during this race so far. Should this issue have a major place in this year’s election? STREISAND: Issues of foreign policy have…
Barack Obama is going to be pretty busy on Wednesday. His campaign has announced that he will be meeting in Israel that day with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, President Shimon Peres, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Likud opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu. As if that’s not enough for a day’s work, he’ll also be meeting with…
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