SACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) – State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) has just introduced a bill to ban offshore oil drilling from an area of state waters in the Santa Barbara Channel known as Tranquillon Ridge, her office said Friday, June 20. The area is designated as a Marine Protected Area because of its sensitive […]
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The World We Share, USA
SACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) — Assemblymember Steve Fox (D-Palmdale) announced that Assembly Bill (AB) 736, a measure which could eventually pave the way for a new California State University Campus in the Antelope Valley, received unanimous approval from the Senate Education Committee. The bill now will move to the Senate Appropriations Committee for consideration. “Our
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congressman John Yarmuth (D-Kentucky) has announced that he voted in favor of a provision to prevent the administration from sending U.S. combat troops to Iraq when the issue came before the House of Representatives on Thursday evening, June 18. The amendment to the FY2015 Department of Defense appropriations bill, introduced
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Middle East, USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Lois Lerner, who has been the subject of an investigation and considerable editorial comment as the person in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) who was responsible for deciding whether organizations deserved tax-exempt status, was defended by Congressman Sandy Levin (D-Michigan), ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, against
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USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel– There is no doubt that Israel’s best friend is America. Without American support in the United Nations Security Council, binding resolutions against Israel would be much easier to pass. Without American aid, Israel’s military strength would be diminished. Without the backing of American citizens and America-based businesses, perhaps Israel
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) issued the following statement Friday, praising the House vote on Thursday night to to ban backdoor email searches: “Last night the House of Representatives took a big step forward for Americans’ privacy rights by voting to prohibit intelligence agencies from deliberately reading Americans’ emails and
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USABURLINGTON, Vermont (Press Release)– Vermont Christian and Jewish leaders joined U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) on Friday, June 20, to address the moral implications of extreme wealth and income inequality. Bishop Thomas Ely, the Rev. Dr. Lynn Bujnak, Monsignor Roland Rivard and Rabbi Joshua Chasan joined Sanders to emphasize that increasing wealth and income inequality
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) on Friday, June 20, praised the Obama Administration for creating a Pollinator Health Task Force to develop a federal strategy to promote the health of honey bees and other pollinators. The new interagency task force will help address troubling pollinator declines in California,
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) on Friday, June 20, released the following statement on the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank: “I strongly condemn the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers, one of whom is also an American citizen, and support Israel’s ongoing efforts to return these boys
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Middle East, USADETROIT (Press Release)– The American Jewish Committee called Friday’s Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) decision to divest from major companies doing business with Israel a setback for efforts to attain a negotiated, sustainable Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, and a breach with a Jewish community committed to Jewish-Christian relations. By a vote of 310 to 303, the PCUSA General
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — If there is a New Middle East on the horizon, it does not look anything like that which Barack Obama envisioned in his Nobel-winning Cairo speech of 2009. Beyond the lives of three boys and whatever develops between Israel and the Palestinians as a result, the bigger noise in the
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABRUSSELS (WJC) — The Belgian government will reportedly earmark between 2 and 3 million euro (US$ 3-4 million) for improving security around Jewish buildings following the deadly attack at the Brussels Jewish Museum last month, a Belgian newspaper reported. The funding is part of the federal government’s plan to shoulder security costs for the Jewish
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International
JERUSALEM (WJC) — Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri spoke of his cordial feelings toward Jews and the Jewish state during a meeting with the World Jewish Congress-Israel and the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR) in Jerusalem. Macri, who is a candidate in the forthcoming Argentine presidential elections, stressed the important contribution of Jews in
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International, Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –The rapid (although not unpredicted) entry of radical Sunni jihadists into Mosul, Tikrit and other largely Sunni areas of Iraq, and their movement toward Baghdad, has prompted cries from left, right and center about the failure of U.S. policies in the region. And failure it is, although not of the
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA