Steve Bannon, the newly-appointed chief strategist and senior advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, is expected to attend the Zionist Organization of America’s annual dinner in Manhattan on Sunday, in what is seen as an attempt to change the perception about him over his views and past comments about Jews.
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday received the blessing of the Peres family, expressing hope that he will maintain strong U.S.-Israel relations.
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.
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.
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.
Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday assured American Jews that longstanding U.S. support for Israel will continue under a Donald Trump administration.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday extended an olive branch to president-elect Donald Trump after continuously criticizing him during the presidential election.
Hillary Clinton outperformed President Obama’s share of the Jewish vote in Tuesday’s presidential election, winning the support of 70 percent of Jewish voters, according to a national exit poll released on Wednesday.
The uproar over Donald Trump’s closing argument TV ad is an abuse of the accusation of anti-Semitism, Trump’s Jewish adviser David Friedman said in an interview with Jewish Insider on Monday.
Israel’s opposition leader, Knesset member Isaac Herzog, on Monday called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to disavow his wealthy allies who are supporting Donald Trump for president if he claims impartiality.
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