Report by JTA: “Ahead of the Iowa caucus: A Jewish guide to the presidential candidates” On Monday, Iowans will gather to launch the 2016 presidential election with an arcane ritual — the caucus. In living rooms and meeting halls throughout the state, caucus-goers will group themselves into clusters according to which presidential candidate they favor. By the end […]
Bronx old-age home whose board includes several high-powered Orthodox Jewish activists has sent at least $20 million to dozens of ultra-Orthodox organizations and Israel in an unusual, decades-long arrangement. By Josh Nathan-Kazis, Forward The not-for-profit, called the Bronxwood Home for the Aged, runs a home care agency and an assisted living facility, which serves largely non-Jewish […]
Israel’s bureaucratic system of stealing children from their parents… Tikun Olam– January 9, 2016 By Richard Silverstein Daniella Vaknin’s daughter, Adel, at her settlement pre-school A few A few months ago, I wrote about a shocking Israeli Supreme Court decision which ratified the officially-sanctioned theft of children from a mixed Jewish-Palestinian couple and their adoption by an Orthodox Jewish couple […]
A powerful Israeli leader with a charismatic message that resonates deeply with tens or hundreds of thousands of Israelis writes: “Christmas has no place in this our holy land. Evangelicals must not gain a footing here. Expel the vampires from our land before they once again suck our blood.” Accused of murdering a Palestinian couple, he has never […]
How much are Jewish not-for-profit CEOs making? Click on each entry for more information. Forward– Transparency. Conversation. Fairness. Those are the aims of the Forward’s salary survey, now published for the seventh year. We shine a light on the gender composition and compensation of our top national not-for-profit leaders in the hopes that it will […]
Hillary boasts a host of dedicated aides, consultants and confidants advising her on foreign policy issues… Sanders, whose lack of interest in world affairs has been apparent throughout the campaign, has so far refrained from setting up any foreign policy team… By Nathan Guttman, Forward The top Democrats may be running neck and neck in the early […]
A pro-Israel organization, the JCRC of Boston, provided an all expense paid trip to Israel for ten Massachusetts state senators…. such trips violate ethics and conflict of interest standards By L. Michael Hager, CounterPunch Last December, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (JCRC), a pro-Israel lobbying organization, provided an expense-paid, ten-day trip to […]
Michael Douglas pledges to combat anti-Israel activity on campus, the first time that a Hollywood celebrity has offered to join with a world Jewish leader to visit U.S. college campuses and speak with students about Israel and the Jewish people. JTA — American actor Michael Douglas and Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky will visit three U.S. […]
Like all ambitious U.S. Presidential candidates, Trump swears loyalty to Israel… pledges to move US embassy to Jerusalem… but tells Jewish Republicans they won’t support him because he doesn’t need their money – “You want to control your own politician” Jerusalem Post Donald Trump said he would move the US Embassy to Jerusalem. “They want […]
Including the festering Israel and Palestine conflict, which has taken on its current form due to the connivance of Washington as Israel’s patron, all of the unrest in the region is quite plausibly a direct or indirect result of American missteps By Philip Giraldi I had expected that there would be little in last week’s […]
