Politics

Biden returns David Cohen, Obama-era CIA deputy director, to his old job

His experience will be especially useful as the new president will likely not have any Senate-confirmed officials in place by Inauguration Day next week.

SF federation to monitor giving after sending funds to group accused of backing Capitol siege

Any group that helped fund or organize an insurrection would be disqualified from receiving its funds, the federation said.

Sheldon Adelson to be buried on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives

The cemetery, where Jewish families have buried their dead since time immemorial, is nearly full.

Kristen Clarke, top Biden civil rights nominee, says she erred in inviting anti-Semitic author to speak while at Harvard

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer describes painful associations of seeing ‘Camp Auschwitz’ T-shirt

Harold Bornstein, physician who declared Trump ‘healthiest ever’ president, is dead at 73

Jerry Nadler brought Zabar’s bag with ‘a babka and the constitution’ to the impeachment hearing

Biden names former UN ambassador Samantha Power to top foreign aid post

David Cicilline: What to know about the Jewish lawmaker leading the Trump impeachment charge

Meet Lloyd Wolf, a Jewish photographer who captured photos of the Capitol mob

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