A Newt Gingrich robocall told Florida voters that Holocaust survivors \”were forced to eat non-kosher\” because of Mitt Romney.
Israel, the United States and Iran have all gone deep into mixed-signals territory. Conversations with Israeli officials, including Defense Minister Ehud Barak, left one prominent journalist convinced that Israel will strike Iran by year’s end. Yet two weeks ago, Barak had said that any possible Israeli attack on Iran is “far off.”
Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has denied involvement in the decision to hold a special Republican caucus in a Nevada county to accommodate Sabbath-observant Jewish voters.
Super Bowl Sunday is just around the corner, and this year one of the most buzzed-about commercials stars Ferris Bueller — that is, Matthew Broderick, who stars in a Honda ad based on his 1986 film masterpiece “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”
Austria\’s Jewish community accused the country\’s leading far-right politician on Monday of a \”monstrous provocation\” for what a newspaper said were comments likening anti-fascist protests to the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust.
When the New York Giants and New England Patriots take the field for Sunday’s Super Bowl, most of the country will focus on the athletes wearing the jerseys. However, from a Jewish perspective, the story behind these football franchises comes from those wearing suits in the owner’s box.
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