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Jared Kushner, former White House senior advisor, is writing a memoir billed as a behind-the-scenes account of his father-in-law Donald Trump’s campaigns for president, and Kushner’s work in his administration. In “Breaking History: A White House Memoir” slated for publication by Broadside Books in August, Kushner will take readers “inside debates in the Oval Office,…
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to congratulate Joe Biden immediately after U.S. networks called the 2020 presidential election infuriated former President Donald Trump, who called it the “ultimate betrayal.” A soon-to-be-released book sheds light on Netanyahu’s thinking after the American polls closed. Two days after the Nov. 3 election, a senior aide to…
Jared Kushner pressed Pfizer for vaccines already slated for other countries to go to the U.S., Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla writes in his new book, “Moonshot: Inside Pfizer’s Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible.” Bourla refused, and wrote that the disagreement became “heated” with Kushner, who is President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and was a…
More Jews than ever are coming to Martha’s Vineyard; Alan Dershowitz doesn’t seem to have many friends among them. In a stroke of genius, the criminal defense attorney is hoping to fill both his needs and the needs of his coreligionists by doing his favorite thing: pontificating on camera. Yes, Dershowitz has a Cameo account…
Editor’s note: We have republished this story, originally published in 2017, for Presidents Day. What do Malcolm Hoenlein, Donald Trump and I have in common? Well, yes, what apart from having Jewish daughters and a proclivity for Mexican food? That’s right, we’re all presidents; @therealdonaldtrump is America’s 45th finest, I’m the president of my coop…
What do we think of when we think about our presidents? The courage of George Washington crossing the Delaware? The resolute command of Abraham Lincoln? The once insuperable embarrassment of George W. Bush choking on a pretzel? We might also consider their Yiddishkeit. Our 46 Heads of State (Grover Cleveland is counted twice) all had…
Even before he was confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Israel in 2017, David Friedman tangled with Democrats, calling members of the liberal pro-Israel group J Street “kapos” and questioning long-held U.S. support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In his new memoir, Friedman, a bankruptcy lawyer and campaign advisor to Donald Trump before…
This essay was adapted from IT COULD HAPPEN HERE by Jonathan Greenblatt, published by Mariner Books. Copyright © 2022 by Jonathan Greenblatt. Reprinted courtesy of HarperCollinsPublishers. From that fateful day in July 2015 when Donald Trump announced his candidacy as he descended a gilded escalator, he contrived grim visions of criminals and terrorists storming across…
