Each year around the Easter-Pesach nexus we inevitably have a difficult discussion about cultural appropriation. Thankfully, it looks we don’t need to have that talk with the junior senator from Utah. While there are some differences of opinion, the holiday discourse usually goes as follows: DO attend a Jewish friend’s Seder if you are Christian,…
(JTA) — The Dallas pastor slated to lead a prayer at the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem has made derogatory remarks about Jews, Muslims, and Mormons. Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who currently is running for the Senate in Utah, said in a tweet Sunday evening that “Robert Jeffress says ‘you can’t be…
Turns out Zach Braff and Mitt Romney share a surprising, rather spooky connection. The 41-year-old actor confirmed to TMZ yesterday that he is related to the politician through an accused “witch” who was hung during the Salem Witch Trials. Their shared relative is Rebecca Nurse, who was sentenced to death in 1692 and later made…
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. In March 2012, less than a year before his reelection, Barack Obama was caught on a hot mic assuring Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that he just needed some space and time to comply with Russia’s requests to scale back missile…
They tried to support other candidates, then they did their best to block him. But nothing helped. So what else can Jewish Republican critics of Donald Trump do? Well, they can laugh. And that’s exactly what many of them did Monday when they gathered in New York to a roast of former Mitt Romney adviser…
Mitt Romney, House Speaker John Boehner and former President George W. Bush will be among the speakers at the Republican Jewish Coalition leadership meeting. Romney, the Republican presidential nominee in 2012 who briefly considered a run this year, was announced as a speaker Wednesday by the RJC. The conference will be held April 24-26 in…
(Haaretz) — The inaugural conference of the Israeli-American Council served as a platform for a blistering attack on President Barack Obama on Friday night, launched by his defeated rival in the 2012 elections, Republican Mitt Romney. The “naive” president, Romney said, “is weakening our military, distancing ourselves from allies, and being divisive and demeaning towards our…
Miriam and Sheldon Adelson address Shimon Peres’s Israel Presidential Conference, Jerusalem, May 2008 / Getty Images Amid mounting alarm that anti-Semitism is on the rise in key spots around the globe — and fears that Israel could be a prime target — a prominent Republican group has come up with a unique approach to fighting…
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NPR Legal Correspondent Nina Totenberg in conversation with Editor-in-Chief Jodi Rudoren. To benefit the Forward.
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