What if you knew that your community would be rocked by an earthquake in two weeks -- would you try to do something to warn people to take precautions? What if The New York Times and others were reporting that the earthquake was coming -- but...

Just three days ago, NJDC reacted to the power-sharing accord between Fatah and Hamas. While that short statement was only 167 words long, it's been impressive watching how far some have misread it over the past 72 hours. That certain media outlets and others would purposefully do so...

As the world marks the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp this week, Americans will also sadly look back at 2009 as the year that the memory of the Holocaust was abused and misused in politics like never before. Politicians, pundits, and...

Wait - Israel's Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, is coming to the Ramadan dinner hosted tonight by President Barack Obama?

After reading this in Talking Points Memo, I paused to make sure I read it right.

There's nothing surprising about the now-annual tradition of a White...

Are Nazi and Hitler comparisons -- and invoking Holocaust imagery -- ever acceptable in political discourse? Of course I think the answer is no, period. And we've always made clear that such comparisons are not okay for anyone, on either side of the aisle.

But these days the G.O.P. base...

We've seen a growing chorus of voices recently questioning the direction of American foreign policy when it comes to Israel. A number of these voices -- including some recent editorials -- appear disconnected from the facts; they seem to ignore President Obama's commitment in word and deed to our strong...

Being a Jewish Republican in Congress is a singular experience -- literally. With Senator Arlen Specter's (D-PA) move to the Democratic Party and the general GOP "let's narrow our base wherever possible" philosophy, it's no surprise that Republicans are faring so poorly, and that Jewish Republicans are faring even worse....

As I noted earlier, there's been much discussion among some American Jews about whether President Barack Obama "gets" our community. Monday's widely-applauded White House meeting with top American Jewish community leaders helped shut down this discussion once and for all. One of the most oft-cited concerns of...

Those who closely follow the intersection of Jewish and Democratic politics know that there's been a good bit of noise -- though perhaps not much light -- surrounding whether President Barack Obama "gets" the American Jewish community. Indeed, Obama has not pleased every American Jew, much the same...