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Last week, amidst yet another controversy surrounding Ilhan Omar, freshman congresswoman from Minnesota, the cover of Newsweek was Omar’s smiling face with the title “Ilhan Omar, the Democrats, and Israel.” Inside the magazine was a 5,000-word article titled, “How Ilhan Omar Is Changing the Conversation About Israel - and Upending the 2020 Campaign.” The article paints Omar as the tragic heroine selflessly working from within the Democratic Party to create a more honest view of the U.S.-Israel relationship.

After tepidly denouncing President Donald Trump in a recent opinion column, longtime Queens Jewish Link writer Sergey Kadinsky earned himself an angry letter from reader Ahron Price. “Who does Kadinsky think he is? No president has embraced the Jewish community as tightly as Donald J. Trump. After everything that he had done for Sholom Rubashkin, the Jerusalem embassy, and how about that diplomatic wunderkind Jared Kushner, Jews should be voting Republican for the next hundred years!”

In her continuing non-apology tour, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar apologized to anti-Zionist sect Neturei Karta for ignoring their request for a photo-op. “In my effort to show that I’m not an anti-Semite, I’ve met with many Jews from the social justice community. They share my opposition to the Israeli financial occupation of congressional campaign accounts,” she said.

In the days preceding the AIPAC annual conference in Washington, there was plenty of buzz online coming from opponents of Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration that this year’s event would fall short of the storied organization’s policy of maintaining bipartisan support for Israel.

Is New York City on the brink of a financial crisis? Some people think it is. According to a very recent article in The New York Post, the city is “careening closer to all-out financial bankruptcy.” Even if this report is exaggerated, it certainly gives one reason for thought.

When Mrs. Porter heard a knock at the door of her Baltimore home one evening at suppertime, she had no idea that she was about to be handed an opportunity for a monumental kiddush Hashem.