New York City has approximately 1.5 million Jewish residents — and Jews are estimated to be about 13 percent of voters in the city (60% of them registered Democrats). The Jews of New York have always been a highly sought-after voting group; that hasn’t changed as the upcoming 2021 party primaries approach. Of course, with…
Daniel Pearl z”l (Oct. 10, 1963 – Feb. 1, 2002), a journalist for The Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped and later beheaded by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan. (To add to the tragedy, his son and only child was born four months after his death.) A proud Jew to the end, Pearl’s last words, spoken right…
Jon Ossoff, 33, will become U.S. Senator from the state of Georgia. He’ll join fellow Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock, who also was victorious in the runoff election. With both Democrats winning, the Senate will have a 50-50 split between Republicans and Democrats, and incoming Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris will cast the deciding vote in the…
As of this writing, President-Elect Joe Biden has named four Jewish men and a Jewish woman to key positions in his administration — all of whom are listed below. Nominees to cabinet-level posts will need to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF Ronald “Ron” Klain (59) is an…
A point of pride for the Jewish people has long been that a hugely disproportionate number of Jews have garnered Nobel Prizes. It is estimated that more than 20% of prize winners have been Jews — extraordinary considering that Jews comprise about 0.1% of the world’s population and 2% of the U.S. population. The…
We remember the brilliant and beloved jurist who served on the U.S. Supreme Court for more than a quarter century. “The Notorious RBG” — as she came to be known — was an indefatigable champion of gender equality and other social justice causes. She passed away on Sept. 19 — Rosh Hashana eve — from…
Journalist Jonathan Swan, 35, was born and raised in Australia. In 2016, after relocating to the U.S., he became a national political reporter for the news website Axios. Swan has been praised for his one-on-one interview with President Donald Trump earlier this month, during which he assertively questioned the veracity of a number of Trump’s…
Until recently, 60-year-old Geoffrey Berman was United States Attorney for the powerful
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who was featured on this website a couple of months ago, has found himself at the epicenter of a protest firestorm — literally, in the case of his city and elsewhere — following the killing of a black man named George Floyd by four white police officers. One of them…
Comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen and his wife, actor Isla Fisher (a convert to Judaism), have donated 100,000 antiviral masks and 50,000 protective coveralls to healthcare workers in the U.K. The couple were joined in the effort by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, also a Jew. Cohen is British, Fisher is Australian, and Benioff is…
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