(JTA) — WASHINGTON — In her first statement on Israel as a presidential candidate, Kamala Harris struck a markedly different tone than President Joe Biden, saying after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that she “will not be silent” in the face of what she called the “devastation” in Gaza.
The vice president met Thursday afternoon for 40 minutes with Netanyahu, who had met with...
(JTA) — In a defiant speech to the U.S. Congress, Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue fighting in Gaza until Israel achieves “total victory” over Hamas and, in the face of virulent opposition at home and abroad, argued that the war was a shared fight for democracy.
“We’re not only protecting ourselves, we’re protecting you,” Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said in the speech Wednesday afternoon to a chamber...
(JTA) — WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former President Donald Trump will meet on Friday at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate, a day after Netanyahu meets with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Netanyahu has been scrambling for the meetings, and the photo opportunities each would bring, with the current president as well as with Harris and Trump, who are all but...
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Washington, D.C. with families of Israeli hostages, one of his first stops on a highly anticipated trip to the United States and a sign of how much focus is being placed on talks over a hostage release and ceasefire deal.
According to a report about the Monday meeting provided by a group representing the families, the families urged...
(JTA) — One day after President Joe Biden ended his campaign, leading Democrats have coalesced around Vice President Kamala Harris — and begun speculating about her running mate. At least two Jewish governors are thought to be top contenders.
Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro and Illinois’ J.B. Pritzker were both floated as potential presidential candidates when pressure began mounting for Biden to drop out. Now, one...
President Joe Biden added a new chapter of drama to the 2024 presidential race announcing in a letter releasd to the public over X (formerly Twitter) at 12:46 p.m. CDT that he was dropping out of consideration as the next Democratic Party nominee.
In a follow up announcement a half hour later, the president acknowledged he was putting his full support behind Vice...
(JTA) — MILWAUKEE — Donald Trump accepted his party’s nomination for president Thursday night in a speech in which he invoked the Israeli hostages, said the Oct. 7 invasion would not have happened on his watch, and boasted that the U.S. would build an anti-missile defense system like Israel’s Iron Dome.
“The entire world, I tell you this: we want our hostages back and they better be...
(JTA) — MILWAUKEE — Donald Trump named as his running mate Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, who once worried that Trump could become an American “Hitler” but who this weekend blamed Democratic rhetoric for Sunday’s assassination attempt on the former president.
The selection sets up Vance as an attack dog against those who are concerned that elements of Trump’s agenda and rhetoric echo hyper nationalist and authoritarian trends...
(JTA) — Jewish and Israeli leaders and lawmakers condemned what officials are investigating as an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, as did Gabrielle Giffords, a Jewish former congresswoman who survived an assassination attempt.
A gunman who authorities say was positioned outside a stadium in Butler, Pennsylvania where the former president was leading a campaign rally opened fire on Saturday evening, wounding Trump. Trump emerged from...
(JNS) – Former President Donald Trump was rushed off stage—apparently bleeding from his ear—after being shot at a political rally in Butler, Pa., which law enforcement told the Associated Press is being investigated as an assassination attempt.
The president lifted his fist as Secret Service agents walked him off stage. The Butler County district attorney Richard Goldinger told the AP that the shooter was dead and another attendee of the rally...
