Declaring the US needs a hawk in power, American film great James Caan threw his support behind Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “It’s a pretty dangerous world,” said the 76-year-old Jewish actor, during an interview on Wednesday with reporters in Jerusalem, in the middle of his first visit to Israel. The Academy Award nominee, best […]
(JNS.org) Israel’s Supreme Rabbinical Court has rejected a conversion made by prominent American Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, reaffirming a lower court ruling. Lookstein also converted Ivanka Trump, the daughter of presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, before her marriage to Jared Kushner. The case in question involved an American woman named Nicole, 31, who appealed an […]
Today, it was announced that Trump appointed another Orthodox Jew, Dr. Richard H. Roberts, M.D., Ph.D. as the Vice Chair of the Israel Advisory Committee. Donald J. Trump announced the formation of the Israel Advisory Committee to analyze U.S. policy toward the State of Israel, enhance the unbreakable bond between the countries, ensure Israel’s military superiority within […]
Indiana Governor Mike Pence was among the first to sign legislation against BDS; led a trade delegation to the Jewish state and hosted one By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil WASHINGTON — For presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, picking a running mate may be the closest this campaign gets to echoing his famed reality show “The […]
In dramatic departure from 2012, GOP’s draft platform sidesteps two-state solution, slams BDS movement as anti-Semitic. Draft also recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s “eternal and indivisible capital” and calls for the U.S. Embassy to move there. The draft platform formulated by the Republican Party ahead of its 2016 National Convention is expected to include groundbreaking pro-Israel […]
GOP candidate’s controversial comments sometimes make task of bringing their communities to his camp more difficult, though change in discourse now happening, say Eve Stieglitz, Sajid Tarar. By Danielle Ziri New York — Over the course of his campaign, the discourse of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has offended many groups in the United States: […]
Friedman asserted that both Israeli and Palestinian majorities now prefer “Israeli rule to a nascent Palestinian state.” By Michael Wilner Washington — American attempts to broker a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians are like “forcing a square peg into a round hole,” one of Donald Trump’s two top Israel advisors, David Friedman, wrote […]
(JTA) — Donald Trump’s Jewish son-in-law has been called out by a writer for the New York Observer, a newspaper he owns, for allowing perceived anti-Semitic messaging to be used in his father-in-law’s presidential campaign. Observer entertainment writer Dana Schwartz published “An Open Letter to Jared Kushner, From One of Your Jewish Employees” on the […]
‘US and Israel face exactly the same threat’, claims ‘America’s leadership directly affects every Israeli’. Americans and Israelis face “exactly the same” threat from radical Islam, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said on Sunday, arguing that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump would do much more for American security – and Israel – than Barack Obama. […]
The former mayor has been one of Trump’s most stalwart backers among big-name Republicans. The American people are ready to vote for Donald Trump, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani said Thursday following a two week period during which the Republican nominee has been hammered by his own party, by horrific fund raising reports as […]
