Election 2016: Jews and hillbillies
For over a year, I’ve been writing about the anti-Semitism the Donald Trump campaign inflamed and inspired.
For over a year, I’ve been writing about the anti-Semitism the Donald Trump campaign inflamed and inspired.
Ever since the primaries, I’ve had a bet with my friend Dan Adler. He said Trump would win, I picked Hillary.
Ads have names. The famous political ad linking Barry Goldwater to a nuclear bomb was called “Daisy Girl.” Ronald Reagan’s ad branding him as the candidate of optimism was called “Morning in America.” Remember the one showing Sen. John Kerry as an out-of-touch elitist? That was “Windsurfing.”
In some respects, Election 2016 has not been American Jewry’s finest hour.
Sukkot is the perfect time to make you feel guilty about the homeless.
It was 1984, he was campaigning for prime minister. I was a young journalist, recently arrived in Jerusalem from San Francisco.
At tashlich, I always find a place on the edge of the circle in whose center stands my wife.
When people ask you which person in history you would most like to share a meal with, the acceptable answers are Thomas Jefferson, Shakespeare or your dead bubbe.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a new PR strategy that involves posting clever YouTube videos.
Think back to a year ago. The Jewish wars were raging.