A closer look at Biden’s foreign policy team - Jewish Insider
WEBJacob Kornbluh. November 24, 2020. President-elect Joe Biden announced key appointments to his White House national security team on Monday as he begins to assemble his Cabinet. Among the appointments requiring Senate confirmation are senior foreign policy advisor Tony Blinken as secretary of state; Alejandro “Ali” Nicholas Mayorkas, a ...
In Egypt, an effort to restore the country’s historic synagogues
WEBRebecca Anne Proctor. June 2, 2022. CAIRO – Since mid-April, Cairo’s 1,140-year-old Ben Ezra Synagogue has been under renovation as part of government efforts to resurrect the slumbering Jewish heritage in Egypt that resonates around the world. Located amid some of the oldest Coptic churches in the country as well as the oldest mosque in ...
Gale Brewer returns to the City Council - Jewish Insider
WEBDec 17, 2021 — Brewer, the outgoing two-term Manhattan borough president, is returning to a vastly different Council than the one she occupied from 2002 to 2013. By. Matthew Kassel. December 17, 2021. With two-thirds of the New York City Council’s 51 members stepping down next month, the legislative body is poised for …
The life of Henrietta Szold, a pioneering feminist Zionist - Jewish …
WEBMay 19, 2021 — In 1933, at age 73, Szold relocated to Jerusalem and became an active driving force behind Youth Aliyah, the organization that rescued 30,000 Jewish children from Nazi Europe. “She went to see the children herself; she went at least three times a week,” notes Hacohen. “She would leave Jerusalem very …
Next season of ‘Fauda’ will take on Oct. 7 attacks, show creators say
WEBMar 12, 2024 — Season 5 will be “totally different,” creators of ‘Fauda’ say during panel discussion
J.D. Vance on Trump, Israel and his chosen faith - Jewish Insider
WEBSep 9, 2021 — J.D. Vance, the venture capitalist and best-selling author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, got off to something of a bumpy start when he declared his candidacy in Ohio’s open-seat Senate race two months ago.Speaking at a factory in Middletown, where he grew up, the 37-year-old Republican seemed disoriented as a campaign poster unceremoniously slid from its ...
Biden admin 'enthusiastically embraces' full IHRA definition of ...
WEBMarch 1, 2021. Secretary of State Tony Blinken wrote that the Biden administration “enthusiastically embraces” the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, including its full list of examples. In a letter to American Zionist Movement President Richard Heideman obtained by Jewish Insider ...
Judaica artist Michael Aram reflects on his Armenian roots - Jewish …
WEBMay 4, 2021. Michael Aram, the artist whose metal jewelry and houseware designs are a staple at high-end department stores around the country, knows that his ethnic-sounding name presents a Rohrschach test to his diverse customer base. “I have my Persian ladies who say, ‘Of course, you’re Persian,’” Aram told Jewish Insider last week.
Inside Nina Turner’s last-ditch efforts to salvage the Jewish vote
WEBMay 3, 2022 — CLEVELAND — Even as Jewish voters overwhelmingly coalesced around Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH) during her first congressional bid just under a year ago, Nina Turner, the well-known progressive champion, is actively engaged in an effort to peel away at least a portion of that support as she seeks to defeat Brown in a primary rematch on Tuesday. In recent weeks, Turner has met with rabbis ...
The ‘many worlds’ of Huma Abedin - Jewish Insider
WEBMar 4, 2022 — Growing up in Saudi Arabia was “one of the greatest gifts” given to Huma Abedin by her parents, she said in the newest episode of Jewish Insider’s “Limited Liability Podcast.”The longtime aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recalled her early upbringing in the Gulf nation in conversation with co …