If the pundits are correct, the Czech Republic may become the first country other than Israel to elect a Jewish president. Jan Fischer, 62, an understated former prime minister who led a caretaker government following a coalition collapse in 2009, is neck and neck in the polls with another former government head as the nation…
The answer came to me when I was driving my daughter to her bat mitzvah training. We were listening to postelection radio coverage, but I was not really paying attention because my daughter had just told me she wasn’t practicing her Torah portion when she was at her mother’s house. I was in a tough…
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday endorsed President Barack Obama for a second term, citing the importance of his record on climate change, particularly in the aftermath of the devastating blow dealt to the New York area by storm Sandy. Bloomberg said Obama has taken significant steps to reduce carbon consumption, whereas Republican challenger…
For all the frantic debate-watching that’s swept the nation this fall, one of the most important debates of the current election season has gone largely unheard. It’s a whispered debate between the two most celebrated Republican presidents of the last century, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, over how to achieve economic growth. Eisenhower, serving from…
If Secretary of State Hillary Clinton harbors ambitions to run for president, she is keeping them under tight wraps. “I have no earthly idea what she’ll decide to do,” her husband, former President Bill Clinton, said on CBS television’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday. Although Hillary Clinton went down to defeat to President Barack Obama…
Israeli President Shimon Peres called West Bank settlements a threat to Israel. The remarks, made Tuesday at the annual ceremony in memory of Zionism founder Theodor Herzl, appeared to address a report released Sunday that said “Israel does not meet the criteria of ‘military occupation’ as defined under international law” in the West Bank, and…
The incidental interviewer doesn’t have to break a sweat to get President Shimon Peres to sit back in his armchair and detail, with enthusiasm and at length, his vision of what the State of Israel will ideally look like in three years’ time. After all, Peres and vision are synonymous. Like in Shmulik Kraus’ song,…
Eric Cantor says he may step into the Republican presidential race after all. The No. 2 House Republican said he might make an endorsement before a nominee is decided, MSNBC reported Friday. “The more we can coalesce around a single nominee the more straightforward the choice will be for the for American people,” said Cantor,…
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