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How Jewish politics are shaping the 2026 election map, from coast to coast
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (613+ words) After a year in which Israel, antisemitism and political polarization scrambled long-standing alliances, the American Jewish political map is heading into 2026 unusually unsettled. As Democrats and Republicans jockey for control of Congress and key statehouses, Jewish candidates and Jewish issues…...
Josh Shapiro's new memoir puts his Jewish identity at the center of his political vision
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (512+ words) But again and again, Shapiro returns to another theme: that Judaism is not a sidebar to his public life, but one of its central organizing principles. What he does describe is a family life that will feel familiar " and validating…...
Rise up peacefully and resist, America | Letters to the editor
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (1024+ words) Renee Nicole Good. We say her name. We mourn the tragic loss. Unleashing ICE on our nation has had horrifying consequences for our nation. President Trump doesn't care. With little training, many ICE hires have little idea of their legally…...
Cosmetics firm Weleda to examine Nazi ties amid revelation of its role in Dachau experiments
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (388+ words) A major European cosmetics firm has vowed to reexamine its Nazi-era history amid revelations that it benefited from gruesome human experiments in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust. Weleda, founded in 1921 in Germany by a Swiss parent company, claimed…...
America really was great, and can be again | Editorial
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (833+ words) Eighty years ago, on Sept. 2, 1945, the Japanese surrender ceremony aboard the mighty U. S. S. Missouri formally ended history's deadliest war and inaugurated what would be called the American Century. It was less than four years since the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor…...
Where have all the Americans gone? | Opinion
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (656+ words) From antisemitic protests to mass shootings to swiftly changing demographics, a local school teacher worries for the future America that we will leave behind for our children. They crossed an ocean to free themselves from English rule and fought a…...
South Florida Jews face changing plans as they try to leave Israel for U. S.
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (823+ words) As of Wednesday evening, Rabbi Allen Bell of West Palm Beach, who is visiting Israel in the company of his wife, Susan, had multiple plans for returning to South Florida as Iranian missiles rained down on Tel Aviv. Plan A: Drive…...