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A new year is supposed to bring new optimism — even in the age of COVID-19. So it was disheartening to wake up Jan. 2 to an op-ed written in the Wall Street Journal that needlessly slammed the city of Hartford. Even more disturbing is that it was penned by someone who has ambitions to lead the state — former Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski, who ran for Connecticut’s highest office in 2018 on a pro-business platform.

Red-state Mizrahi Israelis don’t want liberal sympathy or solutions Featured Column Red-state Mizrahi Israelis don’t want liberal sympathy or solutions Attempts to draw analogies between Trump voters and the Israeli right fail to understand Jews who trace their origins to the Muslim world and illustrate the left’s contempt for “deplorables.” (December 21, 2020 / JNS) Liberal American Jews are generally confused when it comes to Israelis. On the one hand, they claim to have empathy and support for Jews of color. But in order to inflate the number of those who fit that fashionable cat...