by Joey Maya Safchik | Mar 17, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Gabriella Karin was eight the first time she heard Nazi propaganda. It was the day after Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, in Europe. Within four years, officials announced the plan to declare her home country “judenrein” — cleansed of Jews....
by Joey Maya Safchik | Mar 12, 2020 | Featured, National Security
Ending an endless conflict: efforts beyond the White House to bring peace to Israel and Palestine from Medill Washington on Vimeo. WASHINGTON – In the Israeli settlement of Shiloh, located where the ancient Biblical city of the same name is rumored to have been...
by Joey Maya Safchik | Mar 5, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured
LOS ANGELES – Jorge Bravo paces back-and-forth outside of a polling place in South Gate, Calif., as his 18-year-old daughter Guadalupe casts her first ballot. Guadalupe Bravo is not only a first-time voter, but a first-generation voter. The daughter of Mexican...
by Joey Maya Safchik | Mar 5, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured
LOS ANGELES – Daniel Kohanbash could see the raging Getty Fire from a dorm room window at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It smells like there’s a barbeque on campus, times ten,” Kohanbash said, a sophomore at UCLA. “It’s...
by Joey Maya Safchik | Feb 20, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured
WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Democrats must work to curtail the “entrepreneurship gap” at the Democratic debate in Las Vegas Wednesday, clashing with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on how to build business equity....
by Joey Maya Safchik | Feb 14, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics, Topics
ARLINGTON VA. — In her first public event after placing a distant fourth in the New Hampshire primary, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and her campaign remain on course in messaging at a town hall in Arlington, Va., while also laying out a strategy for the...
by Joey Maya Safchik | Feb 4, 2020 | Featured, SOTU2020
WASHINGTON — A sparse group of protesters hung around the street corners in front of the Capitol Tuesday to show their opposition to President Donald Trump as he delivered his third State of the Union address. In years past, larger groups met the president when...
by Joey Maya Safchik | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – As Jewish people around the world commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the conversation about anti-Semitism continues on Capitol Hill. “It grieves and shocks me that anti-Semitism is rising again in Europe, the US...
by Joey Maya Safchik | Jan 28, 2020 | Featured, National Security
The House Subcommittee on National Security Tuesday probed the Trump Administration’s actions in Afghanistan, where the United States is currently engaged in its longest-ever conflict. “Obviously we have not succeeded in keeping the bad guys out,”...
by Joey Maya Safchik | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — “Over 100 years ago, my great-grandfather came to New York City fleeing anti-Semitism,” said Rep. Max Rose, D-N.Y. The House Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism convened last week to discuss the thereat posed by domestic anti-Semetic...
by Joey Maya Safchik | Jan 22, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House impeachment managers laid the groundwork for the case against President Donald Trump Wednesday, emphasizing that the president’s decision to withhold military aid from Ukraine threatened U.S. security. On the second day of the Senate impeachment...
by Joey Maya Safchik | Jan 16, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – About 100 protesters swarmed Capitol Hill on Thursday to call for the removal of President Donald Trump and demand that Congress take action to stop war with Iran. A dozen were arrested. The protest was organized by a diverse network of grassroots...
