Heshy Kleinman

From Iran’s endgame to the fractures inside MAGA and the Democratic Party, Diaspora Affairs minister Amichai Chikli maps the forces reshaping Israel’s relationship with America As Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu heads to Washington — and with the unprecedented prospect of facing calls for his arrest should he later visit New York for the UN General Assembly — Israel’s relationship with its closest ally is entering uncharted territory.

With about 100 days remaining until the midterms, prognosticators are debating whether President Trump will lose his Senate Republican majority. Political insiders, though, are asking: Has he lost the Senate already? The legislation Trump is pushing has stalled, his appointees aren’t being confirmed, and Republican senators who are vocally opposed to the president seem to be growing in number. And all of this is in a Republican-controlled Senate! What exactly is happening inside the chamber?

Remembering a Survivor [Inbox / Issue 1120] The recent letter from L. Silver about her father, Mr. Toivya Gruen a”h, one of the 51 boys who were released from the gas chambers, brought back wonderful memories. When I was young, my family and hers knew each other well. Her father was a true tzaddik. After his miraculous survival, Mr. Gruen certainly understood that he had work to do and that Hashem had allowed him to survive, where so many others didn’t, for a reason.