Steve Rabinowitz

The writer is the president and a founder of Bluelight Strategies, a Washington DC public affairs firm.

 US PRESIDENT Joe Biden looks on as Evan Gershkovich, who was released from detention in Russia, is greeted by his mother, upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, last week. Israel should emulate the US-Russia prisoner exchange, says the writer.

'Pidyon Shvuyim' calls for a hostage deal now - opinion

Steve Rabinowitz with Joe Biden in the Vice President’s Residence, 2015.

Joe Biden will make a great president; here's why - opinion

BETH MEIR Synagogue interior.

Can synagogues streaming High Holy Day prayers learn from politics?


Soleimani is dead. So is the Iran deal. What now?

Notwithstanding Iran’s several violations of the deal last year, it was still significantly far from having enough enriched uranium for a weapon.

Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prays near the coffins of Iranian Major Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commandr Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis who were killed in last wee;s US air strike at Baghdad airport.

The King Messiah Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump visiting the Western Wall in 2017

American Jews and the Democratic presidential contenders need a dialogue

How exactly are the candidates’ approaches different from each other? On the role of the US in restarting negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians?

US Democratic candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg

Let’s start talking

American Jews and the Democratic presidential contenders need a dialogue.

Have some American Jews replaced Judaism with liberalism?

Cruz too cozy with Qatar?

What are the Texas senator’s connections to the terrorist-funding Gulf emirate?

US Senator Ted Cruz 370

Time for Trump to hold Qatar accountable for funding terrorism

In March 2014, a senior US Treasury Department official called Qatar a “permissive jurisdiction” for illicit financing of terrorist groups in Syria, including ISIS and the al-Nusra Front.

PALESTINIANS TAKE part in a rally in support of Qatar, inside Qatari-funded construction project ‘Hamad City’, in the southern Gaza Strip, in June

An insider’s view: Eight years watching the first Jewish US president

"The example of Israel and its values was inspiring,” Obama said.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu stands with President Barack Obama

Defending Keith Ellison

Some of us may disagree on whether Rep. Ellison is our very first choice to be party chair, but he will be a perfectly great chair regardless.

US Rep. Keith Ellison

Woe is us

Two things for sure: It turns out I had not seen it all. And I will not again make fun of Israeli politics or the Israeli political system. Woe is us. But it ends well.

Trump and Clinton

I have Trump’s AIPAC speech text

He has a habit of speaking his mind, and his upcoming remarks promise not to disappoint.

A supporter shows his tattoo before US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio