Possible VP Pick Mark Kelly has Jewish connections besides Gabby Giffords, his Jewish wife
The first-term Arizona senator has been to Israel twice since Oct. 7
Gabby Giffords
The Latest
-
Politics -
Culture Against all odds, still Gabby Giffords persists and persists
A new documentary chronicles the improbable triumph of the former congresswoman from Arizona
-
News Gabby Giffords’ bat mitzvah was as joyous and tearful as you’d expect
As former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords stood before the congregation of Temple Chaverim in Tucson, Ariz., and kissed her tallit, preparing to chant from the Torah for her bat mitzvah, Rabbi Stephanie Aaron placed her hand atop Giffords’ hand, her voice rising and falling along with Giffords’ own. It was an emotional moment two decades…
-
Fast Forward Arizona’s special senate race could keep Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat empty
A special senate race to fill the late Republican Sen. John McCain’s seat in Arizona could be the tipping point in the fight over confirming a Supreme Court Justice to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Democrat Mark Kelly, the former astronaut and husband of ex-Rep Gabby Giffords, who is Jewish, is likely to win a…
-
News Jewish gun control activists take center stage at Democratic Convention
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Gabby Giffords, the Jewish congresswoman was shot by an assailant in the head in 2011 and who became a leader in the gun control movement, opened the third night of the Democratic convention with an appeal to elect Joe Biden president. “We can let the shooting continue or we can act,” Giffords…
-
Fast Forward Republican Congressman Mocks Gabby Giffords With Gun At Town Hall Meeting
A pro-gun Republican congressman mocked wounded ex-Rep. Gabby Giffords by brandishing a loaded handgun at a meeting with constituents in his South Carolina district — and suggesting she could have done more to protect herself. Rep. Ralph Norman reportedly pulled out the licensed .38-caliber weapon on a table and suggested that Giffords could have avoided…
-
Fast Forward Gabby Giffords Calls For Stricter Gun Laws After Las Vegas Mass Shooting
Gabby Giffords, the ex-Arizona congresswoman maimed in a grisly Tucson shooting, pled on Monday for stricter federal gun laws after an armed assault left at least 58 people dead Sunday night in Las Vegas. “The nation’s counting on you,” she said in a press conference in front of the United States Capitol, in brief comments…
-
Fast Forward U.S. Navy Names Ship For Gabby Giffords
(JTA) — A United States Navy warship named for Gabby Giffords will be put to sea next week. The ship will be officially named Gabrielle Giffords in honor of the Arizona Democratic congresswoman who survived a 2011 gunshot wound to the head. It will be the first Navy ship named after a living woman in 160…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News Meet the Jews who helped elect Zohran Mamdani
- 2
Fast Forward Calling itself ‘MechaHitler,’ Elon Musk’s AI tool spreads antisemitic conspiracies
- 3
Fast Forward Josh Shapiro’s Judaism was not why Kamala Harris snubbed him, new book claims
- 4
Fast Forward For the Jewish community in central Texas, deadly flooding hits close to home
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion This German word explains Trump’s authoritarian impulses — and Hitler’s rise to power
-
Opinion I’m a Zionist Democrat. Mamdani has me asking if I must choose between my ideals and identity
-
Fast Forward A cholent crisis? Rabbi’s ruling against Shabbat stew on Thursday nights briefly roils Israel
-
Fast Forward In a Polish town where locals burned Jews alive in 1941, new plaques deny complicity with Nazis
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
