US Elections

'Ban anyone from Middle East - but not Israelis,' says US Senate candidate

The candidate, Carlos Beruff, made the remarks in a speech before Republican Party members earlier this week.

Journalist hit with anti-Semitic hate mail after profile on Trump's wife

By JPOST.COM STAFF
US Republican Cruz names Fiorina as running mate

By REUTERS
Trump on foreign policy: Iran deal allowed it to become a 'great power' at Israel's expense

By HERB KEINON

Trump, Clinton score early wins in Northeast states

Trump, who has gained momentum after losing the Wisconsin primary to Cruz on April 5, was also expected to win the other two Northeastern states that voted, Rhode Island and Delaware.

By REUTERS
Trump slams 'B-actor' with 'no mojo'

Lena Dunham was not the only star to come into Trump's cross hairs.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
Republicans Cruz, Kasich reach 'stop-Trump' deal

The Cruz and Kasich campaigns believe their agreement to cede states where the other candidate appears strong could help limit Trump's ability to win more delegates.

By REUTERS
Listen: Comic Jackie Mason skewers Bernie Sanders on Israel stance

Mason tells Aaron Klein Investigative Radio, "If Israel gave up their country but they fought for climate change, he would love Israel."

By JPOST.COM STAFF
After New York victory, Trump turns to California and Indiana

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton, formerly New York's senator and US secretary of state, met expectations by winning virtually every demographic across the state.

By MICHAEL WILNER
Trump, Clinton win in New York, move closer to nomination

Trump could win all of the delegates if his vote total is above 50 percent statewide and in each of the state's congressional districts.

By REUTERS
NY Jewish millennials: Bernie Sanders might not be bad for Israel

“Israel did use disproportionate force in Gaza,” said one college student. “I think that there ought to be more room in the American Jewish community for dissenting voices on Israel.”

By DANIELLE ZIRI
PM, Biden indicate gaps remain in aid negotiations

Addressing the J Street lobby group in DC, Biden said the US had an obligation to push Israel toward a two-state solution to end the Israelis-Palestinians conflict.

By HERB KEINON
Clinton and Trump heavily favored to win today’s New York primaries

Sanders acknowledged on Monday that young voters would have to turn out in “very high” numbers for him to win New York.

By MICHAEL WILNER
Israeli startup claims Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are related

US Presidential nominees purportedly decedents of royal affair 18 generations ago.

By DANIEL K. EISENBUD
Clinton in her own words: Fighting oppression, inequality and injustice on Passover

This Pesach, let’s continue fighting all forms of oppression, inequality, and injustice. Let’s take a page from Moses and Aaron, and speak for those who cannot speak for themselves.

By HILLARY CLINTON
Surprise Seinfeld character takes down SNL's Sanders at parody debate

In its usual satirical trope, SNL mocked the debates between Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, played by Kate McKinnon.

By HANNAH BROAD
Pope meets with Bernie Sanders, thanks him for addressing Vatican on the 'moral economy'

The Jewish senator decried the "immoral" gap between the world's rich and poor that he said was worse than a century ago.

By REUTERS,JTA
Bernie Sanders stops by Vatican to take economic message global

The issue of wealth and income inequality “is the great economic issue of our time, the great political issue of our time and the great moral issue of our time,” says Sanders.

By JTA
Clinton and Sanders spar over Israel at NY debate, Sanders says Netanyahu 'not right all the time'

The candidates battled over support for Israel, with Sanders calling himself "100 percent pro-Israel" but adding that Middle East peace required treating "the Palestinians with respect and dignity."

By REUTERS
Sanders suspends his campaign's Jewish outreach liason after her attack on Netanyahu revealed

“F— you, Bibi, for daring to insist that you legitimately represent even a fraction of the Jews in this world," Simone Zimmerman wrote on Facebook.

By JPOST.COM STAFF,JTA
In meeting with Orthodox, Donald Trump reveals Israel advisers: His Jewish lawyers

In gathering with Jewish journalists, there were some issues on which Trump offered a glimpse into what kind of presidency he’d run.

By URIEL HEILMAN/JTA
Bernie Sanders does mic drop after schooling Donald Trump and Ted Cruz on 'New York values'

Sanders was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to Polish-Jewish immigrants.

By JTA
Sanders' new Jewish outreach director sees 'F--- you' Netanyahu post go viral

Simone Zimmerman allegedly published an expletive-ridden social media post last year accusing the PM of sanctioning mass murder.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
Meet the outspoken critic of Israel who is Bernie Sanders' new Jewish outreach director

“What we need is for the community to stop willfully blinding itself to the disastrous reality of holding millions of Palestinians under military occupation.”

By URIEL HEILMAN/JTA
Fearing Trump, Republican Jews give Cruz another look

“Everyone understands we need to get Cruz to get to the convention to at least stop Trump from getting the nomination.”

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA
At Jews for Bernie event, anger boils over at Sanders campaign

“It has nothing to do with his being Jewish. Zero. Because I don’t find him that Jewishly identified, and I am Jewishly identified,” says Sanders supporter.

By URIEL HEILMAN/JTA
Cruz, acknowledging social issues gap with Republican Jews, stresses Israel support

Cruz drew his longest applause when he said he would on his first day launch the process to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

By JTA
Bernie Sanders' answer to heckler who accused Jews of running Wall Street

Jewish presidential nominee won Wyoming primary on Saturday.

By REUTERS
Sanders wins Wyoming, prepares to take on Clinton in New York

On Republican side, a new poll shows that a third of Trump's supporters could consider abandoning the party's candidate if Trump is denied the nomination at a contested convention.

By REUTERS
Obama: Trump and Cruz are doing Democrats a 'favor' in election campaign

"In 10 months, I will no longer be president. But in 10 months, I will - contrary to Mr. Trump's opinion - still be a citizen of the United States."

By ROBERTA RAMPTON/REUTERS
Bernie Sanders clarifies statements on 2014 Gaza war after speaking to ADL

In his clarification, Sanders said his recollection was indeed inaccurate and that the interviewer corrected him in the course of the conversation – a correction that he said he accepted.

By DANIELLE ZIRI
On from Wisconsin, Republican convention fight more likely than not

Would be the first contested GOP convention since the 1940s.

By MICHAEL WILNER
Sanders: Positive US-Israel ties depend on Jewish State's relationship with Palestinians

"I believe 100% not only in Israel's right to exist, a right to exist in peace and security without having to face terrorist attacks."

By JPOST.COM STAFF
Behind Donald Trump: A Jewish son-in-law who is also an adviser

A real-estate tycoon like his father-in-law, Jared Kushner has emerged as one of a very few advisers as Trump seeks the Republican nomination to the Nov. 8 election.

By REUTERS

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Hamas: 'There will be an explosion' unless Israel lifts Gaza blockade

Palestinian terrorist movement makes threat at an event in Gaza that presented a model of the Israeli bus that exploded in a Hamas bombing in Jerusalem last week.

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Abbas surprisingly dismisses governor of Nablus after alleged criticism on Facebook

Abbas allegedly dismissed the governor of Nablus, Akram Rajoub, after the latter wrote a post on his Facebook page criticizing Abbas' leadership.