I have big fan of Vice President Joe Biden since I volunteered and donated to his ill-fated 1980 Presidential campaign. So you can imagine my happiness when I found out that his daughter, Ashley, was engaged to my doctor, Dr. Howard Krein. Dr. Krein is a very nice, thorough doctor. He is part of a big ear, nose and throat practice at Jefferson Hospital. My only complaint is that he kept me waiting over an hour and did not offer any apology when he did finally see me. The office is very automated probably due to …More

Pro-Israel organizations have long been active in American politics, promoting friendly relations between the U.S. and Israel. Jewish groups, in particular, have helped ensure that candidates' attitudes toward Israel would be an important element in congressional and presidential elections. Yet now, two venerable Jewish organizations, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), are saying that it is improper to do this in the case of President Obama. They have taken the initiative to …More

Emmy Award-winning television personality Montel Williams is impressed with Israel’s policies towards medical marijuana, and thinks that America should follow in its ally’s footsteps. The host of “The Montel Williams Show” was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999 and has been an outspoken advocate of medical marijuana ever since. Williams was in Israel on Sunday on a fact-finding mission to learn about the country’s medical cannabis policies. He met with legislators, scientists …More

This show is “the most disturbing thing I’ve ever watched,” Eli Roth told the New York Times. Coming from the principal horror filmmaker working in Hollywood today, that is no small compliment. Eli Roth hosted “How Evil Are You?” for the Discovery Channel as part of their “Curiosity” series on Sunday. To examine the nature of evil, the show recreated the infamous Milgram obedience experiment from 50 years ago, to much the same effect. Roth has always been fascinated by …More

A new album from Amy Winehouse will be released months after her death, hitting stores in time for Christmas. A handful of journalists listened to the 12 track record, entitled “Lioness,” in a London recording studio. The album’s producer, Salaam Remi, was present, introducing seven of the new songs. Several of them are polished versions of earlier demos with Remi adding back-up vocals and other instrumental tracks to fill out the sound. Remi defended his process, saying it was what he’d …More

Milwaukee native Mildred Fish-Harnack, the only American woman executed on direct orders from Hitler, is honored in a Jewish Museum exhibit and hour-long documentary this month. The obscure story of a UW-Madison student and Wisconsin State Journal reporter who was active in the Berlin resistance movement during Hitler’s rise to power is finally coming to American audiences. On November 7, WPT will premiere Joel Waldinger’s hour-long documentary “Wisconsin’s Nazi Resistance: The Mildred …More

Germany has threatened to suspend the delivery of a nuclear-capable Dolphin submarine to Israel in protest of the country’s settlement policy. Government sources confirmed to German daily Der Spiegel on Sunday that Berlin may withhold the commissioned submarine until Israel freezes settlement construction in Gilo. Israel already owns three operational Dolphin submarines, and two more are being built in Germany’s harbor city Kiel. A sixth submarine, the deal for which was made earlier this year, could …More

There are some people out there that believe in the endless possibilities of our world. You make this decision and then this one and then one more and you end up the King of California. No, seriously, the King with a throne and a scepter. You got the state to leave the United States and everything. If you’re one of those people who believes that there is a path you could take to get you anywhere or to anyone, let us assist you in winning the heart of one Bar Refaeli. Yes, the Israeli supermodel practically …More

Since his inauguration, Jewish leaders have pressed President Barack Obama to make a trip to Israel to repair and reaffirm his relationship with America's Middle Eastern ally. But as his first term comes to a close, expectations of a trip similarly diminish. Supporters and Jewish leaders mourn the missed opportunity for a president whose commitment to Israel has been questioned to assuage all doubts on the matter. “It is an error,” former New York Mayor Ed Koch said to Politico. Koch recently …More

Judge Richard Goldstone, who headed the United Nations investigation of Israel and Hamas for war crimes after their 2008 conflict, declared in a recent New Times column that Israel is not an apartheid state. “While ‘apartheid’ can have broader meaning, its use is meant to evoke the situation in pre-1994 South Africa. It is an unfair and inaccurate slander against Israel, calculated to retard rather than advance peace negotiations,” Goldstone wrote, adding that he, a member of South …More

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Turkey to use its newfound economic power to promote democracy in the region and repair its relationship with its neighbors, including Israel. Yesterday, Clinton addressed the American-Turkish Council in Washington. Clinton welcomed Turkey’s “growing role in the region and on the world stage” and voiced American support for Turkey joining the European Union. But, “To succeed, the Arab political awakening must also be an economic awakening,” …More

The notoriously private Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich broke his silence by testifying in his recent court case. Abramovich, who is Jewish, is currently being sued for $6.5 billion by Boris Berezovsky, a former business partner who says Abramovich scammed him out of his shares in the companies they founded together. During his testimony, Abramovich described the story of his business success, starting with him selling rubber ducks at a toy company he founded and ending with his current role as the head of a …More