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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 616

Jewish voters

Mandana Dayani speaks at the UN on sexual assault of women on October 7 in New York City, December 4, 2023. (Perry Bindelglass/ NCJW)
May 22, 2024, 2:26 am
Jewish activist who fled Iran sees shades of the fall of the shah on US campuses
I Am A Voter co-founder and pro-democracy advocate Mandana Dayani has turned her focus to America’s surging antisemitism – an issue she sees as inalienable from her core mission
By Jordana Horn
An 1806 French print depicting Napoleon Bonaparte emancipating the Jews. (Public domain)
November 8, 2022, 11:29 pm
Opening on Election Day, NYC exhibit traces global history of Jews’ civil rights
‘How Jews Became Citizens’ at NYC’s Center for Jewish History gives access to a trove of ancient documents showing the ever-changing status of local Jewish communities
By Cathryn J. Prince
Then-US President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting, on Saturday, April 6, 2019, in Las Vegas, NV. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
June 18, 2021, 7:51 pm
Trump says US Jews ‘don’t love Israel enough,’ because they didn’t vote for him
Former US president tells ultra-Orthodox magazine that he finds it ‘strange’ he got such a small chunk of the Jewish vote after doing so much for Israel
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A voter, right, checks in with an election worker before casting her ballot in the Pennsylvania primary in Philadelphia, June 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
October 26, 2020, 4:18 am
How US Jewish groups are protecting voting access in 2020
Mobilizing legal teams to report voter suppression, educating voters and helping people get signed up, the organizations say they are united in fighting minority disenfranchisement
By Ron Kampeas
2018 midterm elections at the CNN Bureau, Washington, DC. Harry Enten is now a senior writer and analyst for CNN. (Courtesy of CNN)
July 28, 2020, 3:48 am
CNN election forecaster Harry Enten on the Jewish vote, why he says Shalom on TV
In a wide-ranging conversation, in which Enten recites part of his Torah portion, he recalls his bar mitzvah at Masada — and explains why no one should count Trump out
By Stephen Silver
An attendee wears a 'Make America Great Again' kippah before US President Donald Trump speaks at an annual meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition on April 6, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP/John Locher)
February 5, 2020, 1:49 am
How deep is Trump support among US Orthodox Jews? New poll says it’s complicated
What may be the most robust survey of America’s most religiously observant Jewish demographic reveals that even within subgroups, there are massive differences in political opinion
By LAURA E. ADKINS and Ben Sales
Supporters of Donald Trump hold signs in Hebrew and English as the president speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas, April 6, 2019. (Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images/via JTA)
February 5, 2020, 1:49 am
‘I think it’s Israel’: How US Orthodox Jews became Republicans
America’s most religiously observant Jewish voters have undergone a diametric shift in the last 20 years — but it may be the political parties themselves that have changed
By Ben Sales and LAURA E. ADKINS
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson poses with his dog Dilyn as he leaves from a polling station in central London on December 12, 2019, as Britain holds a general election. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP)
December 13, 2019, 3:28 pm
Echoing Trump, helped by Corbyn unpopularity, Johnson smashed Labour ‘red wall’
The ‘bagel belt’ backs Boris as leading Jewish Labour MP ousted in Tory attack on opponents’ heartlands
By Robert Philpot
A diverse population votes at the Indianapolis Jewish Community Center on November 8, 2016. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
December 4, 2019, 2:22 pm
Israel isn’t a top consideration for American Jewish voters. Here’s why
Like most in the electorate, Jewish Americans tend to vote on issues that directly affect them — though many claim to care about the Jewish state deeply
By Ron Kampeas
Graffiti in Jisr az-Zarka, a coastal Arab-Israeli town north of Caesarea. (Amir Ben David)
September 13, 2019, 6:48 am
Fear and loathing, and alienation, on the second 2019 Israeli campaign trail
In the run-up to Sept. 17, many Israelis of all stripes are wondering whether their elected officials even care about them anymore. At 4 very different locales, we found out why
By Amir Ben-David
A person pauses in front of Stars of David with the names of those killed two days earlier in a deadly shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue, in Pittsburgh, October 29, 2018. (Matt Rourke/AP)
May 22, 2019, 3:01 pm
Poll: 73% of American Jews feel ‘less secure’ than 2 years ago
Nearly 60% think Trump bears ‘some responsibility’ for the Pittsburgh and Poway synagogue shootings, according to findings from the Jewish Electorate Institute
By Eric Cortellessa
From left to right: Clyde Haberman, veteran New York Times reporter; Julian Zelizer, Princeton University Professor of History & Public Affairs and CNN Political Analyst; Halie Soifer, Executive Director, Jewish Democratic Council of America; Jeff Jacoby, opinion columnist for The Boston Globe; Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Executive Director, T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. (Cathryn J. Prince/ Times of Israel)
November 1, 2018, 5:41 am
Domestic issues, not Israel, key to pivotal Jewish voters in midterm elections
Despite constituting just 2% of the population, US Jews may have a disproportionate impact on the vote — and Republicans and Democrats alike are aware of it, say analysts
By Cathryn J. Prince
Nancy Strichman
July 9, 2018, 3:31 pm
Nancy Strichman
No vote, no voice
Denying political representation to over half a million Haredi women in Israel is unacceptable in 2018
Maury Litwack
November 27, 2016, 3:32 pm
Maury Litwack
Can we take this voting thing seriously?
The Jewish community should use its electoral power beyond the presidential races — where real change takes place
Illustrative. Young American Jews participating in a Birthright event in Jerusalem. (Dudi Vaknin/ Flash90)
September 26, 2016, 9:01 pm
US Jews ‘more pro-choice than pro-Israel,’ new study says
Ruderman Family Foundation report finds most American Jews solidly support Jewish state, but are more invested in their liberal identity
By Eric Cortellessa
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