An influential Washington, D.C., synagogue is facing backlash from furious congregants after its rabbi claimed Jews “need to elect Vice President Kamala Harris” in order to comply with “sacred texts.” Adas Israel, whose membership has included Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan and the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is one of the oldest and largest
In her first policy speech as the Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris officially proposed her economic plan to address the high cost of living but failed to offer additional details on what economists have called her “Soviet” price control scheme. During the North Carolina rally, Harris said her price gouging plan—a phrase she mispronounced as
Jewish leaders condemned Michigan’s Osama Siblani when Biden’s team met with him in February Kamala Harris (Michael DeMocker/Getty Images) Jewish groups condemned the Biden-Harris administration earlier this year for meeting with Michigan activist Osama Siblani, citing his record of anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas remarks. Those concerns appear to have fallen on deaf ears at Kamala Harris’s
To address the national housing crisis, Vice President Kamala Harris will, as part of her economic agenda, propose a $40 billion fund to find “local solutions,” her campaign said in a statement obtained by ABC News. Harris’s “innovation fund,” which is twice the amount proposed under President Joe Biden, will assist local governments in addressing
Former Obama administration economist Jason Furman on Friday slammed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s price control scheme as having “no upside.” “This is not sensible policy, and I think the biggest hope is that it ends up being a lot of rhetoric and no reality,” Furman, a Harvard economist, told the New York Times. “There’s
Columbia University president Minouche Shafik’s abrupt resignation on Wednesday came in the wake of her months-long struggle to respond adequately to the protests, disorder, and anti-Semitic displays that engulfed the Ivy League campus in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Classes were moved online. The school’s main graduation ceremony was canceled. Alumni
A professional left-wing activist and trust fund heir who joined Columbia University students in storming and occupying a university building last April also has an active law license in New York, records show. He’s set to keep it, too, even if he’s convicted on the charge he’s facing, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. James