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.
Business guru Mark Cuban sat down for an interview with Axios and made clear he’s still bearish on President Donald Trump. The Texas billionaire, who during the presidential election took on the role of Trump’s main nemesis and Twitter troll, believes Trump was awful as a real estate developer. “I thought he was an idiot,”…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan feels that Europeans are treating their Muslim citizens and immigrants badly. Very badly. “The Jews were treated the same in the past,” Erdogan said Wednesday. “Europe is heading towards being drowned in its own fears.” The Turkish president spoke after weeks of increasing tension with Western European countries following the…
California Democrat Adam Schiff is in a unique position to become one of President Trump’s biggest critics: He is, after all, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. And he is taking advantage of this position to the fullest. On Thursday, Schiff launched a new attack against Trump, accusing the president of revealing classified…
In his first comment to the Forward after it exposed his ties to a Nazi-allied group, White House adviser Sebastian Gorka expressed his rejection of anti-Semitism, but did not address the question of his membership in Vitezi Rend, a far-right Hungarian nationalist group that collaborated with the Nazis. “I’ve been a committed opponent of anti-Semitism,…
America’s largest Muslim organization is calling on President Trump to fire his top adviser, Sebastian Gorka, following the Forward’s report about his membership in a Nazi-allied Hungarian organization. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called in a statement “on all Americans who oppose anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and all other forms of bigotry to contact the White…
President Trump’s top counterterrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka is stonewalling questions regarding the Forward expose detailing his membership in a Hungarian Nazi-affiliated organization. “Send a request to White House press,” Gorka told BuzzFeed News, refusing to respond to the specifics of the report, which quoted two senior leaders in the Vitézi Rend organization, whose members “are…
Google’s decision to keep anti-Semitic David Duke videos on YouTube is irking lawmakers across the pond. Britain’s Commons Home Affairs committee summoned Tuesday executives from Google, Twitter and Facebook for a hearing in which the social media giants were slammed for their failure to block hate speech and anti-Semitic content from their platforms. Chairwoman Yvette…
Israel’s new law barring supporters of boycott from entering the country, has roiled members of the American Jewish left, many of whom fear the ban will leave critics of the Israeli government’s policies unable to enter the Jewish state. For some, the concern is real and immediate, as is the uncertainty regarding the restrictions posed…
די דרשה איז אויך לינגוויסטיש אינטערעסאַנט: כאָטש דער רבי רעדט ליטוויש ייִדיש, זאָגט ער אַרויס „פֿרוי“ ווי „פֿרו“.
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