National Politics

Trump Invites Orthodox, Not Jewish Groups Who Snubbed Him, to High Holidays Call

by Ron Kampeas, JTA | Sep 15, 2017 | National, National Politics, News, Politics

WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump has invited representatives from three major Orthodox umbrella groups to join a pre-Rosh Hashanah conference call, but pointedly left off the invitation list two liberal denominations that had said earlier they would not take...

American Jews Overwhelmingly Disapprove of Trump: Poll

by Ron Kampeas, JTA | Sep 13, 2017 | National, National Politics, News, Politics

WASHINGTON (JTA) — American Jews overwhelmingly disapprove of President Donald Trump in just about every area, scoring him lower than his predecessor even on topics like Israel, where Jewish approval of Barack Obama was relatively low, according to an American Jewish...

Who Are the Jewish ‘Dreamers’?

by Ron Kampeas, JTA | Sep 12, 2017 | National, National Politics, News, Politics

(JTA) — Our email inboxes were stuffed last week with statements from Jewish organizations urging continued protection for “Dreamers,” undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children. Last Monday, President Donald Trump said he...

White Supremacist Group Launches Campus Recruitment Effort

by JTA | Sep 11, 2017 | National, National Politics, News

(JTA) — A group that took part in the recent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia is embarking on a yearlong recruitment campaign on college campuses, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Identity Evropa, a group founded last year that seeks to...

Meet Mike Tolkin, the Jewish Millennial Running for NYC Mayor

by Josefin Dolsten, JTA | Sep 7, 2017 | National, National Politics, News, Politics

NEW YORK (JTA) — Mike Tolkin apologizes for checking his phone as he sits down at a café in this city’s Flatiron district. The 32-year-old Democratic New York mayoral hopeful was waiting to hear Tuesday whether he would be allowed to participate in the final primary...

A Jewish ‘Dreamer’ is Scared, but Refuses to Despair

by Penny Schwartz | Sep 6, 2017 | National, National Politics, News

BOSTON (JTA) — At 15, Elias Rosenfeld became a “Dreamer.” At the time, the Venezuela native was attending Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School in Miami, where he had lived since he was 6 years old, when his Jewish family moved to South Florida from...

Jewish Groups Attack Trump’s Call to End DACA Immigration Program

by Ron Kampeas, JTA | Sep 5, 2017 | National, National Politics, News, Politics

WASHINGTON (JTA) — An array of Jewish groups and lawmakers attacked President Donald J. Trump’s decision to end an Obama-era program granting protections to illegal immigrants who arrived in the United States as children. The Trump administration on Monday said it...

3 Jewish Movements Opt Out of High Holidays Call with Trump

by JTA | Aug 23, 2017 | National, National Politics, News

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Three streams of American Judaism will not participate in the traditional annual pre-High Holidays call with the president, saying Donald Trump has “given succor to those who advocate anti-Semitism, racism, and xenophobia.” “We have concluded that...

Should NYC Remove Statues of its Anti-Semitic Dutch Governor?

by Ben Sales, JTA | Aug 23, 2017 | Commentary, National, National Politics, News, OP/ED

(JTA) — Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson … and Peter Stuyvesant? One of these things is not like the others. Amid the impassioned debate over whether, when and how to remove statues memorializing the Confederacy, an Israeli nonprofit is seeking a...

White House: Stephen Bannon is Out as Chief Strategist

by JTA | Aug 18, 2017 | National, National Politics, News

(JTA) — Stephen Bannon is leaving his position as White House chief strategist. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Friday was Bannon’s last day in the role. “White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today...