WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– The Senate on Wednesday, June 11, voted nearly unanimously, 93-3, for a bill to expand hospitals and clinics run by the Department of Veterans Affairs and to hire more doctors and nurses to provide timely, quality care for veterans. The bipartisan bill by Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont.) and […]
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) led a bipartisan supermajority of 88 Senators in sending a letter to President Barack Obama expressing strong reservations about U.S. relations with the newly formed Palestinian unity government. “The recent formation of a Palestinian Authority unity government supported by Hamas, a
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Jewish Religion, Middle East
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — The President of the State of Israel, Shimon Peres, called and congratulated the President-elect of Israel MK Reuven ‘Rubi’ Rivlin who will serve as the 10th President of the State of Israel from the end of July. “Rubi, Your Excellency the next President of the State of Israel, you are right
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Middle EastBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM–A Palestinian soccer player who met with a Hamas terrorist in Qatar this year was arrested by the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet). Sameh Fares Mohammad, 22, from Kalkilya, had travelled to Qatar for a soccer training camp in April, when he secretly met with a Hamas terrorist that had been freed
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions
PARIS (Press Release) — Continuing threats from French-born Jihadists returning from Syria was the main issue raised today by leaders of an international delegation of Jewish leaders from the Simon Wiesenthal Center during a meeting with French President Francois Hollande. The 20-member delegation is in Paris to inaugurate the Wiesenthal Center’s new historic exhibition on
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International
By J.J. Surbeck SAN DIEGO — I was asked recently by a Presbyterian friend to write something explaining how I became involved in Israel advocacy and to describe what I thought were the main problems in that area. This is my response. I. Introduction By way of introduction, I’ll start with a quick bio and
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It is too early to applaud, but there are some indications to encourage optimists. The forces of law may finally be moving seriously against the financial corruption that is serious, if not rampant, in Israeli business and politics. The clearest sign, and responsible for the word “de-Olmeritzation” coined by one
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW) — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, the only Jewish Republican in either the Senate or the House of Representatives, was defeated Tuesday in his bid for an eighth term in a primary election by Dave Brat, affiliated with the “tea party” wing of the Republican party. Brat, an economics
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International, USABy Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — “Avalanche,” I called it years ago, “an avalanche of scandals in the Obama administration.” That appellation is now a misnomer , depasse and risible. It has now assumed the monstrous proportion of a destructive hurricane, of a devastating earthquake, tremor following tremor. No good news is coming from the
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The House of Representatives came within a few votes of allowing the Bob Hope Airport to adopt a curfew on an amendment to the Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations Act proposed by Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks), and Henry Waxman (D-Los Angeles). The amendment was defeated by
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Travel and Food, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-New York), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, delivered an opening statement on Tuesday, June 10, at the hearing on “Music Licensing Under Title 17 Part One.” “With colleagues on both sides of the aisle, I am developing
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Ted Deutch (D-Florida), Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, issued this statement after joining Subcommittee Chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27) on a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry questioning the U.S. decision to work with a Palestinian unity government backed by Hamas and
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, on Tuesday, June 10, joined Attorney General Eric Holder in urging the U.S. Sentencing Commission to make certain non-violent drug offenders eligible for reduced sentences if they are incarcerated in federal prisons under
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) wrote a letter to President Obama on Tuesday, June 10, urging him to issue an executive order that would implement new standards – modeled on legislation introduced by Boxer in December 2013 – to help ensure that people held in immigration detention and processing facilities
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