President Trump has at least temporarily reversed his policy toward Syria’s Assad regime. A few days ago the administration announced that regime change in Syria was not on its agenda, destroying the Islamic State group was. Then Trump watched gut-wrenching video clips of Syrian babies frothing at the mouth and dying from a chemical weapons…
Imagine we are a fly on the wall in an opulent office in the Kremlin, the site of today’s important meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Except that our “fly” is a mini drone replete with a high-resolution remote camera and a hyper-sensitive microphone. Every word is being broadcast…
I first left the Soviet Union 37 years ago as a teen with my Russian Jewish family, full of excitement about America and freedom; I officially left it again nearly 25 years ago, on the day the USSR was formally dissolved and my birthplace simply became Russia. America fast felt like home. It wasn’t perfect,…
Washington is a town of transient citizens living in timeless homes, with large swaths of the population turning over as one administration exits and another enters. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s new, but century-old, house holds one such story. Ivanka Trump’s father, president-elect Donald Trump, has a long-running, if possibly one-sided, bromance with Russian president…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone to discuss the conflict in Syria and security cooperation. The conversation Saturday evening, which also included discussion of other developments in the region, was announced by the Prime Minister’s Office in a statement. “The two leaders discussed developments in…
Hungarian-born Jewish philanthropist George Soros says the United States under “would-be dictator” Donald Trump will not protect the European Union from an unraveling engineered by Russian premiere Vladimir Putin. “I find the current moment in history very painful,” Soros writes in an essay published this week. “Open societies are in crisis, and various forms of…
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. Until I watched second Presidential Debate, I didn’t like anything about Donald Trump. I am not a Republican. I believe in universal healthcare and I don’t think it’s a great idea to build a wall on the Mexican border. But…
What do Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Julian Assange have in common? According to an article by Michael Weiss in The Daily Beast they share a sanguine attitude to Russian foreign policy and an enjoyment of anti-Semitic supporters. Weiss outlines the responses of Trump and Assange to Putin’s military and political incursions into Belarus and…
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