Posts Tagged: ed koch
New York Times Deplores Israeli Rhetoric While Denouncing Israeli Settlers as a ‘Cancer’
It's a classic antisemitic double standard. When Israelis use heated rhetoric about Hamas, the New York Times raises alarm bells. But when American "progressives" call...
As Jews Shift Away From Democratic Party, Is Ed Koch’s 2012 Advice Being Heeded?
A few months before his death in February 2013, the legendary former mayor of New York, Ed Koch, gave a lengthy interview to The Algemeiner,...
Jack Hidary, Yeshiva Educated Sephardic Jew, IPO Millionaire, Spanish Speaker, to Run for NYC Mayor; Could Make for Three Way Jewish Race (INTERVIEW)
New Yorkers will have another chance to elect a Jewish candidate to the mayor's office to follow Michael Bloomberg, when Sephardic yeshiva graduate, entrepreneur, IPO...
Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch’s Tombstone Engraved With Wrong Birth Date
Place this one in the "woops" column. Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch spent nearly a year designing his tombstone, but despite his fastidious...
Jewish 100: Ed Koch – Government
Ed Koch Former Mayor of New York The recently deceased former mayor of New York never shied away from his religion and...
Ambassadors All: Jews in the 21st Century
In his poignant and insightful writings, outgoing UK and Commonwealth Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks often avers that Judaism serves as "the voice of hope in...
Ed Koch’s Army Diary Details Battle With Antisemites
New York Post - When Edward I. Koch was just a lanky 19-year-old Army draftee from The Bronx marching off to World War II,...
Ed Koch’s Greatest Hits
Ed Koch, the former three-term New York City mayor who died Friday at the age of 88, is to be buried in Manhattan today. The...
Ed Koch, FDR, and the Holocaust
"Mayor Koch last night took on the ghost of President Franklin D. Roosevelt," an item in the New York Daily News in 1988 began, which probably...
Ed Koch Passes Away on the Same Date as Daniel Pearl
In the years since I have served in my current role at The Algemeiner, I can't say that I had come to know Ed...
Officer DePrimo Should be Invited to the White House
Every now and then, there is a story which actually happened and could only happen in New York City. On November 14, 2012, a very...
Ed Koch: 42,600 Civilians Killed When British Bombed Hamburg, Why are They Now Calling for Israeli Restraint?
I was struck by an article which appeared in The New York Times on November 19th reporting on the position of the British government on...
Ed Koch on Jewish Voting Priorities (EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Part 5)
A political fixture in New York, former Mayor Ed Koch, now 87 years old, has remarkably created new relevance for himself in recent years through vocal activism on...
Ed Koch on Resisting Sheldon Adelson’s Arguments in Favor of Backing Romney (EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Part 4)
A political fixture in New York, former Mayor Ed Koch, now 87 years old, has remarkably created new relevance for himself in recent years through vocal activism on national...
