Panel on politics from the pulpit
As election season nears, the Reform movement is helping its rabbis navigate the fraught landscape of politics and the pulpit.
As election season nears, the Reform movement is helping its rabbis navigate the fraught landscape of politics and the pulpit.
A Boston television station rescheduled the initial Massachusetts gubernatorial debate to avoid a conflict with the first night of Rosh Hashanah.
A Boston television station is holding the initial Massachusetts gubernatorial debate on the first night of Rosh Hashanah.
A poll based on a small sample suggests that Jewish identification with Republicans has surged.
Nancy Pelosi agreed with an ADL call on a group planning a mosque near Ground Zero to reveal its funders, but said the mosque\’s opponents should do the same.
Jewish groups are breathing a sigh of relief after Congress passed a law that saved them $150 million to $200 million.
Incumbent Michael Bennet topped Andrew Romanoff to win Colorado\’s Democratic senatorial nomination in a fierce battle between two liberal candidates with Jewish roots.
One should not assume that the anger expressed by American voters in recent weeks is somehow limited to a fringe element of this society. While Jews are generally not identified with the Tea Party crowd, there has been a corollary Jewish response these days to the events unfolding in the Middle East and elsewhere. Someone has suggested that this countercultural response could be labeled as a contemporary version of the Maccabees, namely, a revolt against the existing order.
Few people have a better grasp of the internal dynamics of the Jewish community than Steven Windmueller, so I take seriously his concerns about the angry Jewish voter. Something is clearly happening when the Anti-Defamation League opposes building a mosque near the Twin Towers. Whether this portends a turn to the right for the Jewish community, though, is another thing.
This past Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) delivered a wide-ranging speech at an Orthodox Union event in Washington, D.C. The senator’s lecture touched on areas such as Iran’s nuclear program, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and several domestic policy issues.