Former U.S. presidential candidate Michele Bachmann apologized for her prior efforts to convince Jews they should convert to Christianity, the Times of Israel reported. Bachmann’s expression of regret came on Sunday while she spoke at a Knesset Jewish-Christian Bible study in Jerusalem. She referred to her words as “ignorant.” She declined to acknowledge specifically what…
Michele Bachmann declared she is not running to replace Al Franken’s Senate seat, less than a month after telling a televangelist that she was looking into it, the Washington Post reported. Bachmann told a conservative radio host in Minnesota that she “wasn’t hearing any call from God to do this.” “I took it to the…
Former Rep. Michele Bachmann is considering running for Al Franken’s vacated Senate seat, she said in an interview last week. Franken’s resignation on Tuesday triggered a November special election in Minnesota to fill the last two years of his term. Bachmann, who represented a Minnesota district in the House for eight years, said on “The…
Michele Bachmann said Donald Trump longs for the time when “even my Jews would say merry Christmas.” The Republican former representative spoke fondly of Trump’s “churched background” and “1950s sensibilities,” in a clip from a Saturday interview published by watchdog Right Wing Watch. “He said, ‘When I was growing up, everyone said merry Christmas, even…
Former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann called for an intensified effort to convert Jews to Christianity. Bachmann, a former congresswoman from Minnesota who ran for the Republican presidential nod in 2012, was in Israel last week on a tour organized by the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group. Toward the end of the week, she…
Two of the hottest stars in the Republican firmament, Ted Cruz of Texas and Sheldon Adelson of Nevada, tore through the skies this week in what’s traditionally considered America’s most solid Democratic stronghold, the New York Jewish community. The resulting sound-and-light show probably doesn’t tell us a whole lot about the fates of the two…
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said American Jewish organizations are selling out on Israel in favor of the Obama administration. Bachmann made the accusation this week during a telephone interview with Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council and host of the online radio show that is featured on the conservative Christian group’s website. “What…
In a video announcing her plans to leave Congress, Rep. Michele Bachmann cited her criticisms of the Obama administration’s Israel policies as among her accomplishments. “I pointed out this administration’s despicable treatment toward our great friend and ally Israel, and at the same time giving little more than lip service to the ever increasing and…
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