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In this July 30, 2019, file photo, Robert O'Brien, US Special Envoy Ambassador, arrives at the district court where U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky is to appear on charges of assault, in Stockholm, Sweden. (Erik Simander/TT via AP)
September 18, 2019, 5:35 pm
Trump names new US national security adviser after Bolton’s ouster
Appointment of Robert C. O’Brien, special presidential envoy for hostage affairs at the State Department, announced on Twitter
By AP and TOI staff
Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., as Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 17, 2015, before a House Financial Services committee hearing on the annual report of the Financial Stability Oversight Council. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
August 4, 2019, 9:32 pm
Legislator says three Jewish billionaires bought control of Congress
Minnesota’s Tom Emmer calls out George Soros, Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg in letter
By JTA
US President Donald Trump pauses while announcing an agreement with Guatemala regarding people seeking asylum in the Oval Office of the White House July 26, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
July 30, 2019, 6:18 pm
Presidents have made racist gestures throughout US history
Trump’s recent attacks on black lawmakers are far from unprecedented
By Russell Contreras
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP)
July 29, 2019, 10:15 am
Trump steps up attack on black lawmaker, calls him ‘racist’
US president came under fire for describing Rep. Cummings’ district as a ‘disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess’
By AP and TOI staff
Rabbi Yehiel Kalish attending the swearing-in of Dafna Michaelson Jenet, his sister, at the Colorado House of Representatives in Denver, January 11, 2017. (Courtesy of Michaelson Jenet/via JTA)
January 29, 2019, 11:47 pm
How a Jewish brother and sister are making political history
Rabbi Yehiel Kalish joins sister Dafna Michaelson Jenet in serving in their own state House of Representatives
By Josefin Dolsten
Pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim (C) and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra are seen at curtain call at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on November 7, 2018. (Olivia Hampton/AFP)
November 9, 2018, 2:58 pm
Israeli-Palestinian orchestra brings message of peace to divided America
Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan opens its program of determined idealism with ‘Don Quixote’
By Olivia Hampton
Karl Grossman
July 6, 2018, 3:45 pm
Karl Grossman
It’s Jew vs. Jew in NY local politics
With Trump in the White House, decency is not inevitable, unless each one of us is willing to fight for it
Sivan Rahav Meir
June 24, 2018, 1:10 pm
Sivan Rahav Meir
Democrats, Lieberman, and the political future
The Jewish narrative is far larger than any current enmeshment with the Republican Party
Joshua Hammerman
June 1, 2018, 3:14 pm
Joshua Hammerman
If only Adelson and Soros sat down together
If there’s a way out of the echo chambers, the joint leadership of the Jewish world’s polar opposites should find it
Jonathan Muskat
May 16, 2018, 1:36 pm
Jonathan Muskat
Should I thank President Trump from the pulpit?
Synagogue rabbis aim above the political fray, but a careful expression of gratitude shouldn’t bother anyone, right?
Joshua Berman
April 4, 2018, 1:18 pm
Joshua Berman
A two-state solution for the United States
Divide the country to bring peace to the US: blue on the coasts and red in the middle (Chicago’s got to go)
Daniel Biss, left, and J.B. Pritzker are running to be the Democratic nominee for governor in Illinois. (Getty Images/via JTA)
March 3, 2018, 3:38 am
Tight gubernatorial primary in Illinois pits Jew against Jew — on the ballot
For Democratic candidates J.B. Pritzker, an establishment billionaire, and Daniel Biss, a Bernie Sanders-esque upstart, the similarities end at political party and religion
By Ben Sales
Elaine Luria at the Norfolk, Virginia shop she owns called the Mermaid Factory. (Courtesy of the Luria campaign/via JTA)
February 10, 2018, 2:54 am
Navy commander who organized seder on aircraft carrier is running for Congress
Military vet, mom, and mermaid store owner is armed with a plan to retake Virginia’s second district
By Ron Kampeas
Amy Eilberg
February 7, 2018, 4:00 pm
Amy Eilberg
How not to have a conversation
Yelling between cars is just not the way to show you’re willing to listen
Andrew Silow-Carroll
January 31, 2018, 4:11 pm
Andrew Silow-Carroll
An Obama-Farrakhan photo could’ve changed history
Remember when one foolish move would bring down a presidential candidate?
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