California
Q&A: ADL sent a warning days before the Capitol riot
Joanna Mendelson is the Los Angeles-based associate director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, which monitors extremist activity, hate…
U.S.
Q&A: A Jewish photographer who captured the Capitol mob
When Lloyd Wolf heard the long blast from a shofar at the Jan. 6 Stop the Steal protest, the photographer was determined to find the source. He found two…
U.S.
Conflict over Capitol mob coverage roils Orthodox Jewish news media
On Jan. 7, one day after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, the 5 Towns Jewish Times, a weekly newspaper catering to the large Orthodox community in…
Bay Area
Lessons from Weimar Germany
Unlike scores of op-ed writers and political pundits four years ago, UC Berkeley Jewish history professor John Efron resisted early comparisons between…
Politics
Some Republican Jews say Trump must fully exit stage to rebuild party
Still reeling from last week’s insurrection at the Capitol, top Jewish Republicans are showing some division over whether to break from President Donald…
Politics
AOC and Cruz fight over Holocaust analogies, reflecting wider rift
Ted Cruz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez engaged in a Twitter beef about the use and misuse of Holocaust analogies. The weekend’s exchange between the…
Analysis
ADL call for Trump’s ouster is a watershed for American Jews
The Anti-Defamation League’s call for President Donald Trump to be removed from office is not likely to lead to that result. But it is nonetheless a…
U.S.
Sheldon Adelson, megadonor to Israel and Republicans, is dead at 87
Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate whose philanthropy had an unparalleled influence on American and Israeli politics and Jewish causes, has…
Politics
For Jewish Dems, Ossoff and Warnock are a heroic duo
Two days after his election to the Senate helped tip the balance of power in Washington, Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff found another historical echo in his…