Nathan Guttman, staff writer, was the Forward’s Washington bureau chief. He joined the staff in 2006 after serving for five years as Washington correspondent for the Israeli dailies Haaretz and The Jerusalem Post. In Israel, he was the features editor for Ha’aretz and chief editor of Channel 1 TV evening news. He was born in Canada and grew up in Israel. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Florida is one of 20 U.S. states that have already enacted measures to confront companies that boycott Israel. Now, the Tallahassee Democrat is reporting that state legislatures are poised to toughen the already existing anti-BDS law, making it even harder for companies to do business with Florida if they chose to boycott Israel. The new…
Missouri’s strict abortion laws may have finally met their challenge. And it is coming from Satanic worshipers. A woman going by the name “Mary Doe” filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Missouri’s supreme court, arguing that the state’s limitations on abortions violate her religious rights as a member of the Satanic Temple. She was referring to…
Singer Erykah Badu prides herself of being able to see something good in everyone, even the worst of people. “I saw something good in Hitler,” she said in a recent interview with Vulture. What exactly was that positive something she found about Adolf Hitler? “Hitler was a wonderful painter,” Badu added. (She relented this point…
Listeners to Vice President Mike Pence’s speech to Israel Knesset on Monday were impressed by its biblical references and by the way it played to Jewish sensitivities. Now, the Times of Israel is reporting that this is no coincidence. Pence got help with his speech from one of the most prominent rabbinical voices of modern…
Alex Soros is not only the son-of Democratic mega-donor George Soros. He is also an up-and-coming philanthropist on his own, known for supporting Jewish progressive causes. This week, the 32-years old Soros is in Davos, Switzerland, hobnobbing with other billionaires, business people, and heads of state attending the World Economic Forum. In his instagram account,…
With the shutdown over, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is back to playing hardball, making clear that a generous offer he made during the crisis is no longer on the table. Schumer announced Tuesday he is rescinding his proposal to agree to $25 billion in funding for the wall Trump wants to build along the…
A new Pew Research Center survey published Tuesday highlighted what Israelis and pro-Israel activists in the U.S. have feared for years — Israel is becoming a partisan issue, and the gap between Democrats’ and Republicans’ opinions of Israel is only growing. According to Pew, the partisan divide on Israel has reached a record level, with…
The Open Society Policy Center, the lobbying group affiliated with George Soros’ philanthropies, spent $16.1 million last year on federal lobbying, according to the group’s final quarter filings reported by Roll Call. The funding, reportedly a record sum, was significantly higher than the previous year. Most of the money was spent in the final months…
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