By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) – The American Jewish community’s leading lobby coalition elected its next leader on Tuesday, April 28, in a confirmation vote that was anything but routine, having followed a week of tumult over her selection. So instead of beginning her term as board chairwoman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on June […]

DC Report By Douglas Bloomfield I just got a letter on White House stationery telling me my economic impact payment arrived. I knew that last week. The printed signature looked —appropriately—like the jagged lines on a polygraph test. It was Donald Trump, who just spent millions of taxpayer dollars— how many, we’ll probably never know — to take credit for […]

By JAMES SINKINSON (FLAME via JNS) – Tens of thousands of Arab citizens of Israel serve as doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health-care professionals. Arab Israelis comprise 17 percent of the country’s physicians, and account for an estimated 65 percent of doctors on the coronavirus ward at the renowned Rambam Hospital in Haifa. Remarkably, the coronavirus pandemic marks the first […]

By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — The man Donald Trump recently named to speak for the Health Department accused George Soros and the Rothschild family of seeking to exploit the pandemic for control and to advance their agendas. Michael Caputo, who advised Trump’s 2016 campaign, last week became the spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, reportedly in […]

By JONATHAN S. TOBIN (JNS) – Blame it on John Foster Dulles. The origins of an entity that has long been considered the focal point of organizational advocacy for Israel dates back to 1956, when President Dwight Eisenhower’s secretary of state was tired of being besieged by a variety of different Jewish groups. The Eisenhower administration was far from sympathetic […]

By MARCY OSTER JERUSALEM (JTA) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz signed a deal Monday, April 20, to form a “national emergency government” that keeps Netanyahu as the prime minister for now. Israel has spent more than a year under a caretaker government as neither Netanyahu, who heads the right-wing Likud party, nor Gantz […]

If he can’t confine the suffering to his opponents, he is prepared to incite a culture war to distract his supporters. By David Frum Staff writer at The AtlanticAt a tense moment in HBO’s Chernobyl, Soviet authorities discover that their robot technology is too primitive and faulty to clear ultra-radioactive rubble. They could ask the Americans for help; the Americans have the […]

By PHILISSA CRAMER, GABE FRIEDMAN, RON KAMPEAS NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – When Bernie Sanders announced on Wednesday, April 8, that he was suspending his presidential campaign, he closed the door on the last sliver of possibility that America would elect its first Jewish president in 2020. That leaves Jewish White House history to be made. Here are 10 people […]

The corrupt, criminal regime wasted 40 days blocking information while it crushed domestic dissent and ensured COVID-19 would become a global pandemic By IRWIN COTLER and JUDITH ABITAN The Times of Israel – There is authoritative and compelling evidence — including a study from the University of Southampton — that if interventions in China had been conducted three weeks earlier, transmission of COVID-19 […]

By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) – Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator who became the first Jewish front-runner in a major party nomination race for president, is suspending his campaign. In a message Wednesday, April 8,  to his followers, Sanders said  that the priority was ousting President Donald Trump, and he said he would campaign for Joe Biden, the former vice […]