Don’t run Republican Jewish Coalition ads, pro-Israel group J Street tells Jewish newspapers

By Ron Kampeas
Published on October 13, 2008

A campaign by a new dovish pro-Israel group to get Jewish newspapers not to run Republican Jewish Coalition attack ads has raised questions about what's kosher and what isn't this political season.

With the Republican base on the ropes, all eyes are on Florida —again

By Raphael J. Sonenshein
Published on October 8, 2008

It is already ugly out on the campaign trail, and reporters in the field are feeling the heat of the rising anger of a Republican base on the ropes.

One-Day U

By Marty Kaplan
Published on September 17, 2008

You have to go back to Spiro Agnew and his bullyboy ventriloquists, Pat Buchanan and William Safire, to find this kind of sneering contempt for educated people.

Campus hate—while down —is still a problem, wailin’ on Palin

Published on September 11, 2008

" . . .If insulting community organizers, making snide remarks about Sen. Barack Obama's popularity and mocking the location of Obama's acceptance speech make her [Palin] presidential material, then America is in serious trouble . . ."

ANALYSIS: Sarah Palin . . . and the Jews

By Rob Eshman
Published on August 29, 2008

For Jews who are not necessarily Israel Firsters, she carries some positives and negatives. Positives: she is a crusader for good government and a fiscal conservative. She is smart and successful and patriotic. Jews like all these things.

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Published on December 16, 2004

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The Jewish War

By Rob Eshman
Published on October 31, 2002

On a recent installment of MSNBC's "Hardball," Chris Matthews hosted a debate between Pat Buchanan and Republican political analyst David Frum. Buchanan opposed a United States-led invasion of Iraq, while Frum supported President George W. Bush's plan for tough inspections first followed by -- if those inspections fail -- the forceful removal of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from power.

That we've all heard before. But what I hadn't heard before -- what I wasn't even sure I was hearing as I reclined comfortably on my couch -- was the repeated reference to the fact that the pro-war advisers are Jews. Matthews said it. Frum said it. Buchanan, whose love of the Jewish people and Israel would win him no Lion of Judah awards, seemed to strain mightily against saying it, and refused to snap at the bait Matthews dangled before him.

Sunshine Vote

By Matthew E. Berger
Published on November 9, 2000

In the end, the selection of the next president of the United States came down in many ways to voters in heavily Jewish South Florida.

The Stealth Politics of Dr. Laura

By Sarah Blustain
Published on July 13, 2000

She's mean, she's popular. And she's more political than her shocked listeners realize. Pat Buchanan has floated her name for running mate. Gay activists have made her a target in the battle for marriage rights. And Christian lobbyists and proselytizers are carrying her flag high.

Jews Must Be Careful When They Talk About Buchanan

By Michael Shapiro
Published on October 28, 1999

Pat Buchanan, a conservative columnist who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996, has long been accused of anti-Semitism by columnists, politicians and Jewish organizations. It is a charge he denies.

Should He Stay or Should He Go?

By Daniel Kurtzman
Published on September 30, 1999

With a maelstrom swirling around Pat Buchanan and the views he espouses on Hitler and World War II in his latest book, the last thing Texas Gov. George W. Bush wanted to do was become ensnared in the controversy.