Joe Biden

The US embassy in Jerusalem sits on a traffic circle recently named for US President Donald Trump. The compound is in the middle of Arnona, a quiet residential neighborhood in the city’s south. (Ben Sales/JTA)

July 15, 2019, 11:36 pm

Which Democratic 2020 contenders would move embassy back to Tel Aviv?

Front-runners say they aren’t happy with the relocation, but that doesn’t mean they would reverse Trump’s decision

By JTA

Joe Biden, the leading Democratic 2020 presidential candidate, holds a speech about his foreign policy vision for America at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York in New York City, July 11, 2019. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images)

July 15, 2019, 3:58 am

Calling for two-state solution, Biden says ‘the occupation is a real problem’

Democratic front-runner tells IfNotNow activists that, alongside Israeli actions, ‘the Palestinians have to step up too and be prepared to stop the hate’

By JTA and TOI staff

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden gives a speech on his foreign policy plan on July 11, 2019 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

July 12, 2019, 2:03 am

Biden stumps on ‘ironclad’ Israel ties, with or without Netanyahu

Presidential candidate says commitment to Israel’s security would remain strong no matter how much he disagrees with PM, promises to re-enter Iran nuclear deal

By JTA

Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg (3rd from L) attends a community building event hosted by Christ Temple Apostolic Church on June 29, 2019 in South Bend, Indiana.(Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

July 7, 2019, 9:02 am

A matter of faith: Democrats embrace religion in campaign

In shift, presidential candidates increasingly invoking God in bid to win over religious voters disillusioned by Trump

By ELANA SCHOR

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., speaks during a fundraiser at the Wynwood Walls, Monday, May 20, 2019, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

July 6, 2019, 10:34 pm

2020 Democrats work to strengthen knowledge, communication on foreign policy

Candidates in contest highlight their overseas experience, plan trips; Warren’s aides say most questions she’s asked on international policy are about Israel

By Steve Peoples

US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone(DMZ) on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

July 2, 2019, 9:18 am

Bonding with Kim while bashing Khamenei, Trump’s nuclear diplomacy baffles some

Experts downplay effectiveness of charm offensive and say even if Trump might want to engage Iran the same way he has North Korea, Tehran is not interested

By Matthew Lee and Deb Riechmann

Sen. Kamala Harris (R) (D-CA) and former Vice President Joe Biden (L) speak as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) looks on during the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate in Miami, Florida on June 27, 2019. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA)

June 28, 2019, 4:45 pm

2nd Democratic debate has dramatic moment on race; foreign policy barely raised

Harris talks of being bused to school during exchange with Biden over his record of praise for segregationist senators and his opposition to bussing as means of desegregation

By Ron Kampeas

Democratic presidential candidates former US vice president Joe Biden, Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, California Senator Kamala Harris, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, former Colorado senator Michael Bennet, and California Representative Eric Swalwell, attend during the Democratic primary debate hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, June 27, 2019, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

June 28, 2019, 8:56 am

Rivals target Biden as Democrats’ rifts emerge on race, age

At Democratic debate, presidential hopefuls square off on healthcare, how far to move left in 2020 race against Trump

By JUANA SUMMERS and Steve Peoples

The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter Valeria lie on the bank of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, Monday, June 24, 2019, after they drowned trying to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas. Martinez' wife, Tania told Mexican authorities she watched her husband and child disappear in the strong current. This photograph was first published in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada. (AP Photo/Julia Le Duc)

June 27, 2019, 4:40 am

Father, daughter drowning fuels anger at Trump migration policies

Shocking photograph of a Salvadoran man and his baby daughter drowned in the Rio Grande brings spotlight to plight of migrants

By AFP

Democratic US presidential hopeful and former Vice President Joe Biden addresses the Moral Action Congress of the Poor People's Campaign on June 17, 2019, at Trinity Washington University in Washington. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

June 20, 2019, 7:07 pm

Biden warns Trump strategy makes Iran conflict ‘more likely’

Former VP and presidential hopeful says it ‘sadly ironic’ that State Department ‘now calling on Iran to abide by the very deal the administration abandoned’

By AFP

US President Donald Trump reacts to the crowd after speaking during his re-election kickoff rally at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, June 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

June 19, 2019, 6:17 am

Trump rehashes gripes, rips ‘radical’ Dems in 2020 launch

Mirroring 2016 campaign, US president casts himself as political outsider, tears into ‘fake news media’ and ‘unhinged’ Democrats at reelection rally in must-win state of Florida

By Jill Colvin, Jonathan Lemire and Michael Schneider

From left to right, Democratic presidential contenders Elizabeth Warren, Tim Ryan, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders. All five, along with several others, delivered video messages at the American Jewish Committee’s 2019 Global Forum. (Getty Images/JTA Montage/via JTA)

June 5, 2019, 7:45 am

US Democratic candidates’ diverse videos at Jewish confab hint at what’s to come

13 spots submitted to AJC conference in Washington show field united on combating right-wing extremism, but divided in interpretations of US-Israel alliance

By Ron Kampeas

US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on May 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

May 27, 2019, 5:10 pm

Trump, Japan’s Abe at odds over North Korean missile tests

US president forgoes custom of avoiding partisan attacks while abroad to call Democratic candidate Joe Biden a ‘low IQ individual’

By Jill Colvin and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

US President Donald Trump waves as he arrives at the Haneda International Airport on May 25, 2019, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, Pool)

May 26, 2019, 6:43 am

Trump downplays North Korean missile threat

US president says Pyongyang ‘fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me’

By Jill Colvin

In this May 13, 2019, photo, former US vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks to a supporter during a campaign stop at the Community Oven restaurant in Hampton, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

May 22, 2019, 11:30 am

North Korea calls Biden a ‘fool of low IQ’ over Kim criticism

After US presidential hopeful brands regime leader a ‘tyrant,’ Pyongyang retorts that he’s an ‘imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being’

By KIM TONG-HYUNG