Berkley, Lingle, Mandel lose Senate bids
Jewish Senate hopefuls in Hawaii, Ohio and Nevada went down to defeat.
Jewish Senate hopefuls in Hawaii, Ohio and Nevada went down to defeat.
During his 30 years in the clubby confines of the U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter never lost his acerbic prosecutorial zeal, friends and associates say.
The following are descriptions of eight congressional races of particular Jewish interest, plus four others featuring potentially viable Jewish contenders.
Congress approved a broad array of new sanctions targeting Iran, and the White House suggested it would implement them.
A flood of money brought in by prominent national political action committees has become the norm in this year’s U.S. Senate race in Ohio, which pits first-term incumbent Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, against Republican Josh Mandel, the state treasurer and a Jewish Iraq war veteran.
Congressional negotiators have settled on a bill enhancing Iran sanctions, and President Obama announced new sanctions targeting fronts for Iran.
President Barack Obama said in an interview that he has failed to advance the Middle East peace process “the way I wanted.”
Czech Jewish leaders said they hoped their Senate would approve restitution of confiscated religious property.
The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation that reaffirms U.S. security commitments to Israel.
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution urging the International Olympic Committee to observe a moment of silence at the 2012 London Olympics for the Munich 11.