We went to the border to support our friends. Our disagreements were for another time.
By David Hoffman (JTA) — Ronald Reagan is reported to have said, “The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a…
Politics
Retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Jewish legacy
By Charles Dunst NEW YORK (JTA) — Not an hour after Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement as associate justice on the Supreme Court, the National…
Netanyahu is welcoming authoritarians to Israel. Does that make his country safer?
By Charles Dunst (JTA) — It has become a staple of his stump speeches to audiences in Israel and abroad: Far from being isolated politically,…
Trump signs order ending family separation policy
(JTA) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order that will end the separation of migrant families on the southern U.S. border. The order, signed Wednesday,…
Detention facilities or ‘concentration camps’? A debate on names invokes the Nazis
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — Simmering beneath the heated debate over whether Holocaust references are appropriate in the debate over the Trump administration’s policy…