This is the Forward’s coverage of U.S. president Donald Trump and his relationship to the Jewish community.
Donald Trump
The Latest
-
The Schmooze Why Kim Kardashian Is Having Dinner With Jared Kushner And Ivanka Trump
On the down low, reality television star Kim Kardashian West has been currying favor with Jared Kushner for months. And not just about how to stay calm and svelte on camera. Kardashian has been angling for a pardon from President Trump for a woman, Alice Johnson, serving a life sentence for a first-time drug offense….
-
Opinion Why Giving Sermons With Supper Is So Dangerous
On May 3 — National Prayer Day — President Trump issued an executive order strengthening the role of religion in the affairs of state. The order establishes a Faith and Opportunity Office within the White House. The executive branch will increase its focus on alleged religious discrimination in national life, and President Trump will appoint…
-
Fast Forward Anti-Trump Activist Laura Moser Pummeled In Texas Primary
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Laura Moser, the Jewish author who launched an activist movement against the Trump presidency, was soundly defeated in her challenge to the Democratic establishment in a Texas primary. Attorney Lizzie Fletcher bested Moser 68 to 32 percent in the race Tuesday in Texas’s 7th congressional district, comprising parts of Houston and its…
-
Fast Forward Top Trump Donor Broidy Used White House ‘Backchannel’ To Pitch Foreign Business
Top Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy and his business partner George Nader tried to use their access to the president to win lucrative contracts with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the Associated Press reported Monday. Broidy and Nadar pitched themselves to Arab crown princes “as a backchannel to the White House” who could push…
-
Fast Forward Did Mnuchin Ease Trump Off Trade War With China?
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced on Sunday that the U.S. and China can step back from imposing punishing tariffs on each other’s exports, The Guardian reported. President Trump delegated Mnuchin to be the point man on the China negotiations. “We’re putting the trade war on hold, right now, we have agreed to put the tariffs…
-
Fast Forward Trump Inner Circle Would Really Like To Stop Talking About Michael Cohen
Michael Cohen is becoming an outcast within the Trump administration. The Daily Beast reported on Monday that several Trump administration figures have taken pains to avoid talking to and about Cohen since his controversy over a six-figure payment to silence President Trump’s alleged mistress during the 2016 campaign grew into a larger scandal surrounding his…
-
Community Can Europe Save the Iran Deal?
President Trump has put the Iran nuclear deal on life support by pulling out the U.S. and reapplying extensive sanctions. Should the deal be saved? Can it be — and if so, how? Almost all observers outside his political base — which seems to be the main target of the president’s action — agree the…
-
Fast Forward Cohen Promised Novartis Access To White House After $1.2M Payment
Shortly after his longtime boss and client Donald Trump took office as president, Michael Cohen contacted health care company Novartis AG for a consulting job and promised access to the White House, ABC News reported Wednesday. Novartis paid him $1.2 million for that access, Eric Althoff, a spokesman for the company, told ABC. Althoff confirmed…
Most Popular
- 1
Culture ‘The Pitt’ tackled the trauma of the Tree of Life attack. Here’s how survivors of the synagogue shooting reacted to the episode.
- 2
Fast Forward After Minneapolis shooting, local Jewish service channels a city’s grief and resolve
- 3
News Why Josh Shapiro’s memoir could complicate a presidential run
- 4
Antisemitism Decoded How an ‘all-American boy’ became a Mississippi synagogue arson suspect
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion What an antisemitic conspiracy theory and the Alex Pretti killing have in common
-
Opinion As with Cain and Abel, the blood of our brother Alex Pretti is crying out from the ground
-
Books For the first time since Hitler, a Hebrew publisher sets up shop in Germany
-
Fast Forward Kanye West apologizes for his antisemitism: ‘I lost touch with reality’
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism