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.
Randi Weingarten has held leadership position in teachers unions for almost three decades, but in the coming school year she faces perhaps the most daunting challenge of her career. The 2016 election resulted in an administration whose views are almost diametrically opposed to everything Weingarten, as head of the American Federation of Teachers, believes in….
Two Jewish advisers stood next to President Trump when he delivered his comments comparing neo-Nazis to those who protested against them. And while Gary Cohn, Trump’s top economic adviser, has made his fury known, at least in inner circles, press reports indicate that Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, while quieter on the issue, was also not…
Some of President Trump’s staunchest supporters in the Jewish community may have had enough. Trump’s Tuesday afternoon rant — in which he claimed that there were some “fine people” in the crowd of white supremacists who chanted anti-Semitic slogans in Charlottesville, Virgnia, and equated the “alt-right” and neo-Nazi marchers with counter-protesters who came to oppose…
New York Rep. Lee Zeldin, one of only two Jewish Republicans in the House of Representatives, was among the few who stood up for President Trump after his Tuesday comments blaming “both sides” for the Charlottesville events. “It is not right to suggest that President Trump is wrong for acknowledging the fact that criminals on…
Taking a firm stand against President Trump’s comments on the Charlottesville events, the Republican Jewish Coalition is calling on the president to “provide greater moral clarity in rejecting racism, bigotry, and anti-Semitism.” In a statement issued by the group’s national chairman Norm Coleman and executive director Matt Brooks, the RJC made clear it does not…
A group working to de-radicalize white supremacists had been set to receive funding from the Department of Homeland Security until Trump aide Katharine Gorka worked to eliminate its grant. Gorka, a homeland security official and the wife of controversial White House counterterrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka, was a member of President Trump’s transition team before his…
President Trump offered an angry defense of his stance on white supremacist and “alt-right” activists Tuesday, echoing racist talking points and lashing out at what he called the “alt-left” in a contentious press conference. Speaking to reporters at Trump Tower, the president emphatically backtracked from his Monday statements blaming extreme white nationalist groups for the…
Three days after the deadly car attack by a white supremacist in Charlottesville, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued his first condemnation. In an English-language tweet Netanyahu wrote: “Outraged by expressions of anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism and racism. Everyone should oppose this hatred.” The Israeli prime minister seems to have waited to hear a clear condemnation from…
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