NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for his recent criticism of “friends” who pressure Israel to accept peace deals by warning them that, if they didn’t, the movement against Israel will only strengthen. Senator Schumer said at the 2014 AIPAC Policy Conference that such actions […]
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday, March 6, filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of 40 prominent civil rights, human rights, religious, educational and law enforcement organizations urging the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the constitutionality of the federal Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes
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USABy Isaac Yetiv , Ph.D LA JOLLA, California — Years ago, I warned about a dangerous trend of usurpation of authority by the Executive power to the detriment of the other two co-equal powers, the Legislative and the Judiciary. I even called it “Bonapartism.” The drafters of the US Constitution, fearing ” the rule of
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USANEW YORK (Press Release)–Robert G. Sugarman, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, called on Congress “to restore full funding for the very successful groundbreaking joint US-Israeli missile defense program including David’s Sling, Arrow II and Arrow III as well as the funding for the
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JAFFA, Israel (Press Release)–Khouloud Ayouti has been working at the Peres Center for Peace for two and a half years in the Peace Education department. Since joining the team, Khouloud has been instrumental in maintaining and growing programs in the fields of technology and IT, while enhancing Peace Education through Technology programs. She truly believes
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By Anav Silverman KIEV, Ukraine – The current political crisis in Ukraine has propelled its Jewish community to request emergency training from Israeli emergency response organizations, United Hatzalah and ZAKA. As the Ukrainian crisis developed during the past three months of anti-government protests, Ukrainian rabbis appealed for help in emeregency response training. Rabbi Moshe Reuven
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International, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Several of my correspondents have asked what we should do in the presence of our insoluble problem with the Palestinians. Immediately, not much. Wait for the dust to settle, both that raised by the present flurries of John Kerry, and the larger chaos throughout the Middle East, some of which we can
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By Carmit Madar WASHINGTON (TNA) – The 2014 AIPAC Convention commenced with the singing of the Spangled Banner and the Hatikvah by Hagit Yassu, a young Israeli singer, who was among over 13,000 attendants from around the world, from all religions and walks of life, came together to show support for Israel. The convention hosted
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Middle East, USANetanyahu and California Gov. Jerry Brown sign pro-business agreement (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and California Governor Jerry Brown signed a pro-business pact on Wednesday. The agreement aims to expand and strengthen cultural, academic, and economic ties between Israel and California, with an emphasis on water conservation, alternative energy, cyber defense, biotechnology, health, agritech,
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InternationalBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– It may not have been as spectacular as the rescue at Entebbe, but the capture of the ship full of long range Iranian missiles on its way to Hamas in Gaza is very good news for Israel in general and its prime minister in particular. Having, by all accounts, just
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Middle EastEditor’s Note: In case you don’t speak Hebrew and don’t know airline codes, we offer these two glossary items for the following press release from El Al Air Lines. 1) Matmid is a Hebrew word meaning, “cool” or “fabulous!” 2) LY is the code on airline tickets for El Al. Having established that, here’s El
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NEW YORK (Press Release)–AJC is profoundly disappointed with a senior UN official’s endorsement of blatant attacks on Israel in a new UN report on economic integration in the Arab world. Rima Khalaf, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), declared that the report accuses Israel
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SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)–Five pro-Israel groups have written a letter calling on San Francisco State University President Leslie Wong to speak out against and provide counter programming to an anti-Israel forum scheduled on the campus on Thursday. Contending that sponsors of the forum recently met with known terrorists while traveling in the Middle East, the
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) – Rabbi Steve Gutow and Larry Gold, President and Chair of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, on Wednesday, March 5 , released the following statement on the violence in Ukraine: “With the rest of the world, we have looked with deep concern on the recent events in Ukraine. Our hope
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