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 month of May is proving to be busy for the Trump White House’s Jewish community outreach operation. Last week, President Trump proclaimed the month of May as Jewish Heritage Month. And on Tuesday, in recognition of Israel’s 69th Independence Day, Vice President Mike Pence will host Jewish leaders for a reception at the White…
Amos Regev, the founding editor of Sheldon Adelson’s Israel Hayom daily, was fired following growing friction between the publication and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office. The free daily, which is owned by the Las Vegas Republican mega-donor and is known for its flattering coverage of Netanyahu, is Israel’s largest circulating newspaper. According to press reports in…
Among many moves aimed at reversing his predecessor’s policies, President Trump recently decided not to make public the White House visitors logs. Had they been open, the lists would reveal the profound change 100 days of a Trump administration had brought about to the Jewish community’s power structure. “The atmosphere has changed, at least for…
Lighting one of the 12 torches at the ceremony marking the opening of the country’s Independence Day celebrations is one of Israel’s highest honors, so this year’s decision to invite two Jewish American leaders to participate is proving controversial. Philanthropist Michael Steinhardt and Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Wiesenthal Center, were chosen to light…
Did Israel’s education minister fudge Holocaust history at an Auschwitz memorial event? Naftali Bennett, minister of education and leader of the Jewish Home party, was the Israeli government’s senior representative at this year’s March of the Living event at the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland Monday. The event, taking place on Yom Hashoah,…
Did President Trump’s Holocaust memorial speech clean up his blemished record on anti-Semitism and the Holocaust? Reactions in the Jewish world to Trump’s Tuesday morning speech in the Capitol rotunda were as varied as the political views held by activists and organizations, but the Anti-Defamation League, perhaps the gold standard in battling anti-Semitism and bigotry…
Back in the final days of the presidential campaign, Donald Trump released a video ad promising to take America back from the grip of the political establishment and “global powers.” Starring in the ad, in a way that many Jewish activists found troubling, were several Jewish figures including billionaire George Soros, Goldman Sachs’s Loyd Blankfein,…
After a rocky first few months in office, in which his White House was accused of demonstrating a lack of sensitivity and understanding to the Holocaust, President Trump delivered a full address in an attempt to correct this perception. Trump, the keynote speaker at the Days of Remembrance ceremony on Capitol Hill, sponsored by the…
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