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.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer emerged bruised from the three-day government shutdown, which is expected to end Monday after the Senate reached a compromise. President Trump and the Republicans coined the term “Schumer Shutdown” on Friday, singling out the New York senator as being solely responsible for the federal government grinding to a halt. But…
Updated 6:00 p.m Anti-abortion activists often compare abortion to the Holocaust, claiming aborted fetuses are like Jews murdered by the Nazis. Jewish groups denounce these analogies regularly. Now, a Trump administration official has gone further, bringing footwear into the discussion. The occasion was the launch of the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division at the Department…
To the applauds of many members of Israel’s Knesset, Vice President Mike Pence promised Monday a prompt relocation of the U.S. embassy in Israel, from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem. “In the weeks ahead, our administration will advance its plan to open the United States embassy in Jerusalem — and that United States embassy will open before…
It is rare for a United States ambassador to challenge his superior, the secretary of state. And it is even rarer for the ambassador to succeed. But that is exactly what David Friedman, the top U.S. diplomat to Israel, did recently. Taking advantage of his close ties to President Trump, Friedman took issue with the…
Among the many issues that were raised when Donald Trump chose the controversial Sebastian Gorka to serve as his counterterrorism adviser, none had related to an issue of public record in his ancestral homeland of Hungary. According to a report on Buzzfeed, quoting the Hungarian website 444, back in September 2016 Hungarian police issued an…
Is Ivanka Trump a “spitting image” of her father, just “without a lot of the the flash and style”? This, at least, is the impression of New York Times White House reporter Maggie Haberman, who discussed the first daughter on a podcast hosted by Katie Couric. Haberman’s take on Ivanka Trump is that while she…
A week after Missourians were shocked to learn their governor had an extramarital affair and allegedly tried to blackmail the woman involved, Eric Greitens is speaking out and responding to calls for him to step down. “I assure you that this personal mistake will not deter us from the mission we were sent here to…
Shortly after assuming his job as senior adviser to the president, Jared Kushner received an unusual warning from intelligence officials. His close friend, Wendi Deng Murdoch, Kushner was told, may be serving Chinese interests. The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story, reported that Deng Murdoch, a successful Chinese businesswoman and ex-wife of media mogul…
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