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.
The Trump administration has refrained from taking significant actions to counter Russia’s involvement in the United States’ political process, a 200-page report by congressional Democrats argued. The report, a first congressional account of Russian attempts to sway elections, was presented by Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee….
The name of Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s attorney, comes up only toward the end of the lengthy testimony provided to the Senate by Glenn Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS, a research firm connected to the famous “Russia dossier.” Simpson’s testimony, made public by Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein, describes Cohen as the Trump campaign’s go-to person…
President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has come under fire for overloading his portfolio with pretty much every issue on the American agenda, from pursuing Middle East peace to solving the opioid crisis to serving as an unofficial liaison to China and Mexico. Now, as Axios reports, it appears that Kushner has also…
The murder of an Israeli father of six in a drive-by shooting Tuesday night in the West Bank led the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, to issue an unusual statement. “An Israeli father of six was killed last night in cold blood by Palestinian terrorists,” Friedman wrote on Twitter on Wednesday morning. “Hamas praises…
The letters and emails began arriving at Congregation Beth Israel, in Charlottesville, Virginia, days after the city turned into the symbol of America’s new battle against white supremacy in the Trump era. It took that long for Americans to grasp the deeply anti-Semitic nature of the events that rocked the nation — until news emerged…
Breitbart News called the president’s decision a “nightmare before Christmas. The Conservative Review described her as “Trump’s worst nomination so far,” and the Coalition for Jewish Values argued that the president’s choice to renominate Chai Feldblum to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was “akin to putting an avid hunter on the board of PETA.” Barack…
Josh Mandel, largely considered the Republican frontrunner for the 2018 Ohio Senate seat, announced Friday he is ending his race. Mandel cited health issues his wife is dealing with as the reason for dropping out. “After recent discussions with our family and healthcare professionals, it has become clear to us that it’s no longer possible…
Steve Bannon, who famously made Breitbart the “alt-right’s” prime platform, may be on his way out of the publication, which took him back after ending his service in Trump’s White House. In a matter of hours after quotes of Bannon trashing President Donald Trump and his family emerged from Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury:…
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