It’s a nightmare scenario for Democrats: Protesters disrupt their convention this summer; they clash with the police; chaos seems to take hold. It may not be imaginary. As protests over Israel’s war in Gaza continue to intensify, especially on college campuses, activists are preparing to be in Chicago this summer for the Democratic National Convention.…
For many Jews, the distress was heightened by connections to friends, relatives or colleagues in Israel, some still missing or unaccounted for on Monday. Rabbi David Wolpe, a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School, described obsessively watching the news in recent days while keeping in constant contact with friends in Israel. “I know any number…
Republican presidential candidates seized on the Hamas attacks on Israel Saturday to criticize President Biden, whom they sought to cast as enabling the offensive by Palestinian militants. Several of the primary contenders argued that there was a connection between the surprise assault and a recent hostage release deal between the Biden administration and Iran, a…