Al Franken

BERLIN – The social and political unrest unfolding in Egypt overshadowed German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit last week to Israel. While in Israel…

WASHINGTON — An Arab-American lawmaker, already US President Barack Obama's chief antagonist in Congress, is in line to take over the main…

Few can be sorry this year is ending and the aughts are history. Here are some of the winners and losers. WINNERS• Joe Lieberman - Lots of Jews…

Seventy-one senators have signed an AIPAC-backed letter to US President Barack Obama supporting his effort to encourage Arab states to normalize…

Incumbent Norm Coleman's defeat in the drawn-out Minnesota Senate race leaves US Republicans without a Jewish senator for the first time in half a…

With its decision in favor of comedian Al Franken, the Minnesota Supreme Court has given the US Senate its first veteran of "Saturday Night Live" -…

So there were these two Jewish guys from New York, Al and Norm. It sounds like the beginning of a bad Borscht Belt joke. Instead, it is the beginning…

Jewish Democrats are welcoming news that the US Senate's only Jewish Republican member is leaving the GOP, labeling the move proof of the…

The 111th Congress convened for the first time on Tuesday, with strong Democratic majorities in both houses that will soon be complimented by a…

I'm here to tell you, and remember that you heard it from me first, that the Jews didn't kill Jesus. But we are, I'm pleased to say, killing…

Democrats strengthened their majorities in both houses of Congress in Tuesday's US elections, picking up five more seats in the Senate and adding at…

Appearing before leading Jewish Democratic activists here Tuesday night, Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden began by recalling an…

Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman got off to a decidedly unkosher start when he took the podium at the Republican National Convention last week to greet…

Centuries ago in the ghettos of Europe, Christian rulers and their Jewish subjects arrived at a mutually convenient form of internal diplomacy. The…

Every year, the relentless refrains of "Santa Baby" and "Silver Bells" and other saccharine Christmas lyrics seem to fill every radio frequency, not…

Israeli film fest to conclude in KenyaKenya's first ever Israeli film festival will conclude Thursday evening in the country's capital. Sponsored by…