Simulation trains groups to handle a Mumbai-style attack

WorldPublished: 09 December 2008

WASHINGTON (JTA)—American Jewish groups have been preparing for terrorist attacks similar to the one that struck Mumbai last week.

The leaders of more than 30 Jewish organizations gathered early last month in New York for a “tabletop exercise” that simulated coordinated attacks on Jewish community institutions in multiple locations throughout the United States.

Economic crisis heads congressional agenda

WorldPublished: 07 November 2008

WASHINGTON – The economic crisis that dominated the last couple months of the presidential campaign will be the major focus of Congress next year as well, say Jewish political insiders.

The battle for Congress

WorldPublished: 31 October 2008

WASHINGTON – With the polls predicting a big Democratic night, the number of Jews in the U.S. Congress is likely to swell and Jewish GOPers could end up losing a few of their favorite lawmakers.

Shulman, Garrett near finish line

History has been made in the race for New Jersey’s 5th Congressional District even with Election Day some six weeks away.

On Sept. 21, two blind men — Democratic challenger Dennis Shulman and Barry Honig, a surrogate for the Republican incumbent, Scott Garrett — squared off at a campaign forum.

Elections 2008

WorldPublished: 12 September 2008

WASHINGTON – Mordecai Specktor says his 19-year-old son Max “has never been in a fight” and is “not a violent person.”

“He’s an anarchist,” said Specktor, the publisher and editor of Minnesota’s Jewish newspaper, the American Jewish World. He’s also “a University of Minnesota student, Jewishly educated.”

Fund-raising, fashion,

WorldPublished: 05 September 2008

When Zucker was first told there was a Republican Jewish Coalition, he replied, “That’s like Indians for Custer!” But it turned out that the RJC was how Zucker, co-creator of the classic comedy “Airplane!” met Myrna Sokoloff, his co-writer for his latest film, “An American Carol.”