Rahm Emanuel

Eldest Emanuel brother pens memoir about his childhood

That was the half-year that was, on The Scroll

His brothers get TV characters named Gold, so why shouldn’t he?

Queens congressman runs into some trouble on the Twitter

Alan Cumming’s character on The Good Wife—the marvelously nuanced political operative Eli Gold—captures the future face of careful, largely deracinated Jewish-American politicians

Though officially an exercise in change and progress, Rahm Emanuel’s inauguration as Chicago’s first Jewish mayor was nonetheless steeped in well-worn myths and traditions

Rahm Emanuel, who will become the first Jewish mayor of Chicago, shied away from discussing his religion during the campaign, but he couldn’t escape Jewish exceptionalism

Plus Libya fallout, Ian McEwan, and more

Emanuel seizes majority of Chicago vote to avoid runoff

Plus Iran boasts about ships, ‘Isratine,’ and more in the news

As Rahm Emanuel’s campaign for mayor of Chicago heads toward victory, he’s sending different messages—not a Boss, gay-friendly, disciplined, even rabbinical—to different audiences

After his successful response to a massive snow storm helped burnish Rahm Emanuel’s candidacy for Chicago mayor, the local press is trying to find ‘Bad Rahm’ hidden inside the new, well-mannered version

Comment of the week

After the Illinois Supreme Court put Rahm Emanuel back on the Chicago mayoral ballot, all he has left to do is win

Illinois Supreme Court steps in, temporarily saves mayoral candidacy