WASHINGTON (JTA) — The post-debate analysis this week focused largely on the ongoing spat between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. While we hope they can sort that out soon, the debate featured something else more relevant to JTA readers: Everyone on stage thought that President Donald Trump... Continue Reading ⇒
WASHINGTON (JTA) —Welcome 2020. Is it December yet? Can you set my alarm for December? No? Then how about a dive into how Iran tensions are playing out in D.C. and in the Jewish community.
Badass on the frontline Democrats are seeking to limit President Donald Trump’s... Continue Reading ⇒
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Unfortunately, the new year began much like it ended. After a machete attack in Monsey wounded five people seriously on Chanukah, a woman in Brooklyn was punched in the throat on New Year’s Day.
What can be done about it, especially from Washington?
Here are some of the emerging ideas from experts and... Continue Reading ⇒
WASHINGTON (JTA) — What a year 2019 has been for, well, everyone, but especially for watchers of Jewish politics — and Jews in politics.
Two elections in Israel (with a third to come), three Jewish candidates running for the Democratic presidential nomination (Bernie Sanders, Marianne Williamson and... Continue Reading ⇒
WASHINGTON (JTA) — For the third time in the Republic’s history, the U.S. House of Representatives impeached a president.
There were a number of firsts on Wednesday: Donald Trump became the first elected president to be impeached in his first term — Andrew Johnson had assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln — and a female speaker, Rep. Nancy... Continue Reading ⇒
WASHINGTON (JTA) — ‘Tis the season for so much news!
In addition to another deadly attack on U.S. Jews, a much anticipated British election and the announcement that Israel is going to have a third election in less than a year, President Trump issued an executive order... Continue Reading ⇒
WASHINGTON (JTA) – On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee launched impeachment hearings just hours after the Intelligence Committee, chaired by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-CA., concluded its own impeachment inquiry.
The 300-page Intelligence Committee report concludes that President Donald Trump “placed his own personal and political interests... Continue Reading ⇒
ATLANTA (JTA) — As I sat in the Spin Room of the enormous Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta waiting for the fifth Democratic debate to start, it felt like deja vu.
The debate used the same format, again scrunched 10 candidates on a stage (having one nominee... Continue Reading ⇒
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Tuesday’s off-year elections brought some surprising news.
Here are four key takeaways:
Turning Blue Blues
It wasn’t a good night for the GOP.
Virginia’s legislature flipped to Democratic. It looks like Kentucky elected a Democrat governor, Andy Beshear pushing out the Trumpian incumbent, Matt Bevin.... Continue Reading ⇒
