Jacob Kornbluh is the Forward’s senior political reporter. Follow him on Twitter @jacobkornbluh or email [email protected].
Jacob KornbluhSenior Political Reporter
By Jacob Kornbluh
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News The competition to head the Jewish Agency is fierce
Much is at stake — perhaps even the stability of the new Israeli government — in the race to head the Jewish Agency for Israel, the largest Jewish global nonprofit. And some of the contestants hope that winning the job, once held by former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Soviet dissident Nathan Sharansky, will…
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Fast Forward 4 GOP candidates in key House races invoke the Holocaust against mask and vaccine mandates
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene sparked outrage when she called on “rational” Jewish people to back her claim that mask mandates are comparable to the Holocaust. The Georgia Republican later apologized and visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Then there’s Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a Republican from North Carolina, who made a similar comparison…
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News Bennett’s plan to strengthen Israel-Diaspora relations is short on specifics
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett praised the American Jewish community Monday in an address to its leaders in New York. He admired its acceptance of denominations across the spectrum of Judaism. He extolled its support for Israel. And he stressed the need to strengthen the relationship between Israel and Jews in the diaspora. “For me,…
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Fast Forward Iron Dome funding gets caught up in Democratic infighting — but this aid to Israel was never in question
In the end, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Thursday for a bill to send $1 billion to Israel for its Iron Dome defense system. The 420-9 tally showed strong bipartisan support for Israel’s security. Yet Israel’s supporters had called the stand-alone vote because they had been thrown a curveball by a small number of…
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News 100 days and counting. How much longer will Israel’s new government last?
Israel’s new government turns 100 days old on Monday, a milestone many thought unreachable. Agreeing on little else besides the necessity of removing former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from power, the coalition — marked by inexperience and conflicting ideologies — seemed doomed to fail. At the outset, its partners had stated the coalition’s unwillingness and…
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Fast Forward Trump ‘joked’ about Kushner being more loyal to Israel, new book claims
During his presidency, Donald Trump referred to Israel as “your country” and described then-U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman as “your” ambassador when addressing American Jewish audiences — discomfiting many with what sounded like dual loyalty charges. He subjected his Jewish son-in-law to the same, but more explicitly, according to “Peril,” the new book on…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner urges Biden administration to keep the Abraham Accords alive
Eight months after leaving the White House as the architect of Donald Trump’s vision for peace in the Middle East, Jared Kushner reappeared in public on Tuesday to celebrate the first anniversary of the four normalization agreements between Israel and Arab countries in the Gulf region. “Thanks to the agreements, we are watching the Middle…
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News Interview: Former prime minister Ehud Olmert says the two-state solution is not dead
Ehud Olmert was one of Israel’s shortest-serving prime ministers, in office just over three years — and is the only one (so far) who has been convicted of a crime, serving 16 months in prison for bribery and obstruction of justice. Now 75, Olmert remains fully engaged in his country’s rough-and-tumble politics, as one of…
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