Investigating the mysterious man behind the Drudge Report
Jul 27, 2020 · Every journalist knows that a link from the Drudge Report is the ne plus ultra of online engagement, with the potential to send millions of pageviews to a single story.. But few reporters know much — if anything — about Matt Drudge, the press-shy media mogul behind the barebones news aggregation site he launched as a newsletter 25 years ago.
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4 days ago · Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to be director of national intelligence was met with mixed reactions from Republicans on Capitol Hill, though no Republicans who spoke to Jewish Insider on Thursday suggested plans to oppose her nomination.. Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman who switched parties last month while campaigning for President-elect Donald Trump, has adopted ...
A closer look at Biden’s foreign policy team - Jewish Insider
Jacob Kornbluh. November 24, 2020. President-elect Joe Biden announced key appointments to his White House national security team on Monday as he begins to assemble his Cabinet. Among the appointments requiring Senate confirmation are senior foreign policy advisor Tony Blinken as secretary of state; Alejandro “Ali” Nicholas Mayorkas, a ...
Next season of ‘Fauda’ will take on Oct. 7 attacks, show creators say
Mar 12, 2024 · Season 5 will be “totally different,” creators of ‘Fauda’ say during panel discussion
Inside New Jersey’s Orthodox boomtown - Jewish Insider
Feb 18, 2022 · In Lakewood, the neighborhood church is a synagogue. Over the last decade, the majority-Orthodox Lakewood was the second-fastest growing city in New Jersey. Its population increased by more than 45%, or some 42,000 people, between 2010 and 2020, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
Meet the Israeli actress telling the story of Israel’s creation – on ...
Ruth Marks Eglash. August 1, 2023. Israeli actress Swell Ariel Or is only 23 years old, but as the star of a period drama airing on Netflix that for the past year has been drawing in worldwide audiences, she now finds herself in an important role: sharing with a global audience key elements of the backstory of Israel’s founding.
For the State Dept’s top spokeswoman, her journey to Judaism …
Apr 24, 2020 · Ortagus started in USAID’s Washington headquarters in 2007 but was soon offered a placement in Baghdad. “Everything was Middle East, like 24/7, at that time,” Ortagus said. As a 25-year-old just a few years after 9/11 and the start of the Iraq War, the answer was easy. “I was like, ‘Me, me, I’ll go!’” she recalled.
'The Netanyahus' novel grapples with Israel’s most famous family
May 10, 2021 · The long arc of Jewish history can be summed up in two words: exile and return. And so can the essence of American author Joshua Cohen’s new historical novel, The Netanyahus, whose central character is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s father Benzion, a politically charged historian who was denied a job at Hebrew University for his views — later to be redeemed by the success of ...
The New York Sun rises again - Jewish Insider
Feb 25, 2022 · The New York Sun, the long-defunct daily broadsheet, marked its return to the city’s hypercompetitive local media market on Wednesday, launching an updated website featuring dozens of newly hired staffers and an editorial vision highlighting a range of traditionally minded journalistic principles. “The Sun eschews cynicism,” Dovid Efune, the publisher, wrote in a mission statement ...
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