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Nikki Haley (left) speaks with former President Donald Trump in the White House after announcing her resignation as U.N. ambassador in October of 2018. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
On Nikki Haley’s watch, and with the blessing of President Donald Trump, support for Israel became a “with or against us” proposition.
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Humphrey Bogart, center, in a scene from the 1954 film "The Caine Mutiny." (Columbia Pictures/Getty Images)
The 25th Amendment owes its existence in part to a riveting scene of Jewish angst in a popular novel, play and movie, “The Caine Mutiny.”
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U.S. Senator John McCain speaking at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 21, 2016. (Gage Skidmore)
McCain reserved two paragraphs in his posthumous farewell for a warning about the dangers of hypernationalism, alluding to the rise of the “alt-right,” the white supremacists whom he reviled.
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U.S. Sens. John McCain and Joseph Lieberman, right, place notes in the Western Wall in Jerusalem, March 19, 2008. (Brian Hendler)
Never-Trump Republicans and not a few Democrats during the campaign and presidency of Donald Trump have held up John McCain as an avatar of what the Republican Party once was and still could be.
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Michael Cohen, left, exiting a Federal Courthouse in New York City, Aug. 21, 2018. Cohen reached an agreement with prosecutors, pleading guilty to charges involving bank fraud, tax fraud and campaign finance violations. (Yana Paskova/Getty Images)
Here’s a look at Michael Cohen’s four most Jewish moments.
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President Trump shown before making a statement on the violence in Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 14, 2017. (Chris Kleponis-Pool/Getty Images)
“We must come together as a nation,” President Trump said. “I condemn all types of racism and acts of violence. Peace to ALL Americans!”
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Bob Shamansky brought his Jewish sensibility to Congress. (Illustration by Charles Dunst/JTA; photo: Wikimedia Commons)
In describing the significance of so close a race, reporters have pointed out that the district has been Republican since the Reagan era in the 1980s or hasn’t gone for a Democrat in all but two years since the days of FDR going back to the ’30s and ’40s.
Read MoreOn the third episode of “Who is America?”, Sacha Baron Cohen delved into allegations that Roy Moore decades ago sexually harassed and assaulted multiple women.
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Richard Spencer at a press conference at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, Oct. 19, 2017. (Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Likely missing from the 2018 rally: armed individuals and groups, by court order, and, because of infighting and attrition, a good chunk of the 500 or so extremists who turned up last year.
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Sacha Baron Cohen at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., May 23, 2016. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
In “Who is America?,” a show that made its debut July 15 on Showtime, Sacha Baron Cohen returns with the shtick that made him famous — disguising himself in order to prank the famous and not-so-famous.
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks at a U.N. Security Council emergency session on the demonstrations at the Israel-Gaza conflict, at U.N. headquarters in New York City, May 30, 2018. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)
Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, jointly announced the pullout on June 19.
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