A prayer for our country after the election
Rabbi Naomi Levy
November 11, 2016
Help us, God, to unite our great country
In the wake of a contentious election season.
Category
Election 2016
Team Trump pulls tense Jerusalem all-nighter
Orit Arfa
November 11, 2016
An hour before the initial election results came in, attorney Marc Zell, co-chairman of Republicans Overseas Israel, took out a chart of American states and crunched numbers.
After Trump’s win, Jews in red states feel emboldened, or embattled
Jewish Journal
November 11, 2016
At 6:30 Wednesday morning, Oklahoma City Rabbi Abby Jacobson received a text from one of her teenage congregants expressing sadness at the presidential election results — and fear.
Foxman: Trump should ‘gradually’ move embassy to Jerusalem
jacobk
November 11, 2016
Following through with a public commitment during the presidential election, Donald Trump should be very cautious about moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, former ADL chief Abe Foxman suggested on Thursday.
INTERVIEW: Norm Coleman on Trump strengthening the U.S.-Israel relationship
jacobk
November 11, 2016
JI INTERVIEW with Norm Coleman, former Minnesota senator, who refused to support his party’s presidential nominee, Donald Trump, for president. “Nobody saw it coming. It certainly shook the world with this victory,” Coleman told us in a phone interview.
Trump: Israelis and Palestinians must negotiate peace themselves
Jewish Journal
November 11, 2016
In his first long statement about Israel since winning the U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump called the Jewish state a “beacon of hope” and vowed to help it make peace with the Palestinians without imposing solutions.
In a bitterly divided country, an unsettling series of unknowns for Jews
Jewish Journal
November 10, 2016
By midnight, it was over. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had conceded, and Donald Trump became president-elect of the United States.
Jews outperform top Democratic Party’s base
jacobk
November 10, 2016
American Jews remained disproportionately loyal to the Democratic Party’s nominee for president this year, according to exit polling data, when compared with other base-party constituency groups.
Trump’s Israel adviser: President-elect does not view settlements as obstacle to peace
Jewish Journal
November 10, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump “does not view Jewish settlements as an obstacle to peace,” his top adviser on Israel said.
Netanyahu, in phone call with Hillary Clinton, thanks her for supporting Israel
Jewish Journal
November 10, 2016
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Hillary Clinton for her support of Israel in a phone call to the Democratic presidential candidate.
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