WASHINGTON — Josh Mandel, Ohio’s state treasurer, is mounting another campaign to unseat Sen. Sherrod Brown, the incumbent Democrat. Mandel, a Marines veteran who served in Iraq, announced his bid this week with a 2-minute YouTube video that starts by noting that of his grandparents, one served in the U.S. military during World War II…
(JTA) — The Ohio House of Representatives approved a bill targeting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The bill, HB 476, passed in Wednesday by a vote of 81-13. Five members did not vote. The legislation would prohibit the state from contracting with companies that engage in boycotts of Israel, including companies located…
As the race tightens in key states on election night, the Jewish vote becomes more important in swing states such as Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Though Jews make up a small percentage of the population, over 80% of eligible Jewish voters typically show up to the polls in presidential election years (the average voter turnout…
Jadyn Erin Larky, an 11-year-old girl from the Columbus, Ohio suburb of Bexley, had only just begun her summer at Camp Livingston, one of the country’s oldest active Jewish summer camps. The camp is located in a densely forested area near the Ohio River in southeastern Indiana, and has a beautiful lake on its property….
When I got a call from the Rev. Laura J. Young, head of the Ohio Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, asking me if I could testify before an Ohio state Senate committee about Jewish views on abortion, I did what rabbis have done for hundreds of years: I crowdsourced. With only a short time to…
A professor at Kent State University with a history of anti-Israel activity is under FBI investigation for ties to the Islamic State. The FBI confirmed that Professor Julio Pino is being investigated, the Akron Beacon Journal reported Tuesday night. The Cuban-born Pino, a convert to Islam who is also known as Assad Jibril Pino, has…
Eight of nine people killed in an Ohio plane crash have been identified, seven from one south Florida company. The passengers were employees of PEBB Enterprises, a real estate company in Boca Raton. No one survived the Tuesday evening crash of the chartered plane in Akron, Ohio. The company is a family business founded by…
Ohio lawmakers plan to push for legislation that opposes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, movement against Israel. Ohio Speaker of the House Cliff Rosenberger announced the decision following a visit Oct. 8 from Israeli lawmaker Hilik Bar, of the Zionist Union, the Jerusalem Post reported. “Ohio will fight BDS and boycotts against Israel,”…
