By COLlive.com
"We trust that these candidates will run our state efficiently, and allocate money to the correct places instead of the current situation."
The changes in the Republican platform are a welcome development, but they create new challenges for Israel & much depends on how it meets them
By JNi.Media
In the immortal words of FDR, when someone asked him about the wisdom of supporting Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, “He may be an SOB but he’s our SOB.”
By Jeff Dunetz
According to many observers, Carter's anti-Jewish bigotry is because he lost the reelection because he became the first Democrat since 1920 not to receive a majority of the Jewish vote.
The maverick GOP presidential candidate's tweet also showed Bush, whose wife is a Mexican, wearing a sombrero.
The Jewish billionaire, whose net worth dwarfs Trump's fortune, praised the young Florida senator in a meeting at a Las Vegas casino office.
The Vice President bared his heart and emotions in a packed synagogue, saying the biggest factor is if he has the "emotional energy."
A "National Jewish Leadership Team" reportedly will meet with Bush two days after Yom Kippur.
Jackie Mason now is at least the second Jew backing Trump, but in 2011 he called him a "professional liar" and a "sick man."
Michael Cohen, one of Donald Trump's closest aides, says the candidate really has a great relationship with Latinos.
"The Donald" is in the number two spot, shared with Ben Carson, in Iowa and Michigan after a survey that already placed him in the second spot in New Hampshire.
Trump loves Israel and Netanyahu and hates Obama. His candidacy for the GOP nomination is going to wake up people tired of political correctness.
Cruz said everything the GOP's Sheldon Big Bucks Adelson wanted to hear, but wouldn’t it be better to let BDS die from lack brain disease?
Former New York Gov. George Pataki is the latest Republican to throw his hat in the crowed GOP ring of presidential hopefuls. He declared his candidacy in a video post Thursday morning and touted his actions as governor following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “We need to recapture that spirit, that sense that we are one […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The South Carolina senator may run to be the Republican presidential nominee but has little chance of winning.
His "listening tour" will include a meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Carson's never having held a political office is a disadvantage - and a big advantage for those fed up with professional politicians.
All polls show Clinton would win against any Republican, but has she peaked too soon?
The Republican party is setting the stage for a re-run of 2012 with a party too fractured to make a serious run against the Democrats.
Reports that Pence did not attend the dinner are untrue.
The South Carolina senator is another Republican thinking about running to succeed Obama
Gov. Mike Pence celebrated Christmas in Israel and staked his credentials for a possible run at the presidency.
Dr. Ben Carson is waiting for God to tell him if he should run for president.
Mike Huckabee doesn’t understand why Jews support Obama as “pro-Israel” because he doesn’t understand the psyche of a liberal American Jewish Democrat.
“Non-Christians have a false religion" but the Jews are an exception, says a Virginia Tea Party preacher-candidate in a splendid show of how to put your foot in your mouth.
By J. E. Dyer
There may no longer be a unifying “center” to hold the GOP together.
By J. E. Dyer
He gets that we can’t just sit still, paralyzed by bad press and Democratic talking points.
At his campaign launch on the steps of City Hall, Mr. Catsimatidis pointed to his suit as an example he’s not a Michael Bloomberg billionaire.
By JTA
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the Republican majority leader in the House of Representatives, will lead 26 GOP lawmakers next week on a tour of Israel funded by AIPAC’s educational affiliate. The visit follows on the heels of a similar one this week for 37 Democratic lawmakers led by Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the House Democratic […]
By JTA
Rep. Steny Hoyer, the second-ranked Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives, again will lead fellow Democrats on a tour of Israel funded by AIPAC’s educational affiliate. Two freshmen, Reps. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), said they would be joining this week’s visit, which will include meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders as […]
Outgoing Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren was the only American to hold the post – until Tuesday. Netanyahu has appointed Ron Dermer, a close aide, to take over the job.
By JTA
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul held a conciliatory meeting with the Republican Jewish Coalition in his latest bid to forge ties with the pro-Israel community and left the GOP Jews with some "pleasant surprises,” Matthew Brooks, the Republican Jewish Coalition’s director, told the Washington Post. “While there may be areas of disagreement, he is very, very different […]
Michele Bachmann has a lot in common with Sarah Palin – attractive, pro-Israel, a Tea Party darling, candidate for president and a target of media mockery. Soon, like Palin, she will be out of office.
The Republican Party of 2012 looks a lot like the Democratic Party of '88. It's outdated and running on fumes.
Former Councilman Simcha Felder is the new State Senator for the newly cobbled “super Jewish district,” having won 65 percent of the vote against the GOP incumbent Senator David Storobin. Felder, an Orthodox Jew, has been endorsed by the Jewish Press, to represent a district that includes Borough Park, Midwood and Homecrest. Although he was […]
By Karen Lugo
The GOP's "no foreign law" platform provision represents something beyond concern over the practice of buttressing sketchy legal reasoning with extra-American sources; the GOP statement also objects to Sharia law or any other foreign legal code that threatens to creep into judicial decisions disguised as validated ethnic customs.
A week of setbacks for President Obama has the GOP excited about Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's chances to emerge victorious in November. Rasmussen's most recent poll has Romney leading Obama by one percentage point, which represents a five point swing from May 20, when Obama led Romney, 47%-43%.
By Tibbi Singer
Meet Josh Mandel, who won the Ohio GOP primary and will take on Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, in the fall. A new-age GOP, his fiscal policy comes down to this: he says the country needs to undertake "sweeping regulatory reform." Mandel is a strong supporter of Israel—He and his wife Ilana were married in Jerusalem in 2008. In February 2009, during Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli government thanked Mandel for his staunch support.