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Election 2016
Reed Cordish expected to join Trump administration
jacobk
January 4, 2017
Questions remain whether Jared Kushner will join the incoming Trump administration in a formal White House role. While lawyers are left to address anti-nepotism law questions, Kushner is busying himself with helping close friends line up West Wing positions.
Trump’s Israel envoy pick rattles Liberal U.S. Jews
Jewish Journal
December 21, 2016
Nearly six years ago, when President Barack Obama was set to elevate one of his top emissaries to the Jewish community to the Israel ambassadorship, Dan Shapiro asked for — and got — the endorsement of one of Obama’s fiercest pro-Israel critics.
Suit brought by Holocaust claims lawyer unearths Clinton emails warrant
Eitan Arom
December 20, 2016
A federal judge in New York unsealed a search warrant on Dec. 20 that the FBI used to re-open the Hillary Clinton emails case just days before the election.
Trump’s ambassador to Israel on ADL: ‘They’re morons’
jacobk
December 19, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, has come under fire for comments he made during the presidential election about J Street, who he described as “worse than Kapos.”
Trump nominates David Friedman as ambassador to Israel, where he will ‘work from Jerusalem’
Jewish Journal
December 15, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump is nominating a top Jewish surrogate, David Friedman, to be ambassador to Israel, with a statement saying Friedman will serve from Jerusalem and describing the city as “Israel’s eternal capital.’
WATCH: Morning Joe panel on Tillerson and Israel
jacobk
December 12, 2016
Lingering questions about the expected appointment of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State and his unknown stance on Israel was a topic of discussion on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program Monday morning.
The ADL director and the war against hate in Trump’s America
Eitan Arom
December 7, 2016
When Jonathan Greenblatt took the top job at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in July 2015, Donald Trump was an outside candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and a favorite punch line of TV pundits.
Trump’s defense chief pick said Israel can be a pain, but few in pro-Israel camp seem to care. Why?
Jewish Journal
December 6, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary is on the record decrying the burdens that Israel places on the United States and warning that the Jewish state could be headed toward apartheid.
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