Politics

Bernie Sanders makes Jewish history by winning the New Hampshire Democratic primary — again

The victory comes a week after a glitch-filled caucus in Iowa meant that Sanders missed out on becoming the first Jewish candidate to neatly win the inaugural contest of the presidential nomination process.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrive for a press conference on U.S. President Donald Trump's Israeli-Palestinian peace plan on February 11, 2020, in New York. (Bryan R. Smith/Getty Images)

An unpopular Palestinian president and a disgraced former Israeli prime minister make the case for peace

“I’m fully ready to resume negotiations where we left it with you,” Mahmoud Abbas said to Ehud Olmert at a joint news conference, as if that were an actual option.

US government settles lawsuit brought by Jewish groups against refugee ban

The lawsuit was brought by HIAS, the Jewish immigration advocacy group, on behalf of its partners, Jewish Family Service of Seattle and Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley.