Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, warned Monday that US Jews and pro-Israel advocates were being distracted by the 2016 election instead of focusing on the damage President Barack Obama could still do in his remaining months in office. “The obsession, I have to say, with the […]
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Editor’s Note: The New York Daily News’ interview with Bernie Sanders on April 1 has generated considerable controversy, particularly concerning Israel. Here is a transcript of that portion of his interview that dealt with Israel. We congratulate the editorial staff of that newspaper on its efforts to pin Senator Sanders down on the issues. Daily
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Editor’s Note: Several pieces of legislation are currently being weighed by the California Legislature to counter the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. Two companion measures by Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) were introduced in January and another measure by Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica) was introduced earlier this month. In the Op-Ed below, Rabbi
WASHINGTON — After a rocky week on the campaign trail, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will not attend the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Spring Retreat this coming weekend in Las Vegas. The Republican Jewish Coalition confirmed Monday that Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz will be addressing the annual event, hosted by Republican billionaire donor Sheldon Adelson,
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Middle East, USADemocratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has accused Israel of killing over 10,000 innocent civilians during 2014’s war with Gazan terrorists – in a gross inflation of the casualty statistics enough to make even Hamas’s own propaganda chiefs blush. Sanders, who trails Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton by a significant margin, made the comments in a meeting
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Middle East, USADemocratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders hinted quite clearly on Saturday that Donald Trump’s rhetoric endangered Muslims in the US in the same way that Adolf Hitler had endangered Jews, but Sanders denied Sunday that he had compared Trump to Hitler. “Some of you know I”m Jewish,” Sanders said during a town hall in Wisconsin on
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Jewish History, USALOS ANGELES (Press Release)– The American Jewish Committee (AJC) applauds the introduction of the California Combatting BDS Act of 2016 (AB 2844), which would prohibit California from entering into contracts with companies that boycott Israel. Assemblymember Richard Bloom authored the bill and is joined by several Assemblymembers and State Senators from across the state in introducing
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On March 27, speaking to the Sunday Times, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams expressed his concern at rising levels of anti-Semitism on British university campuses. There are, he said, “worrying echoes” of Germany in the 1930s. Two days later, in The Times, Chris Bryant, the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons and a
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Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, spoke at the Knesset on Monday. He began by noting that the relationship between the US and Israel is “more important than ever,” and that the two countries must work together against threats like Iran and ISIS. This is Ryan’s (R-WI) first trip abroad since
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Middle East, USAThe Trump dynasty welcomed a new member on Sunday, with the brit of Donald Trump”s eighth grandchild. The latest addition to the Trump family, Theodore James Kushner, was celebrated during an Orthodox Jewish ceremony on Sunday in Manhattan. Trump”s daughter, Ivanka, converted to Judaism in 2009 when she married businessman Jared Kushner. Trump himself did
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When she decided to go into show business, iconic Jewish-American performer Barbra Streisand had to overcome tremendous odds, not the least of which was what some viewed as her distinctively Jewish appearance, according to an upcoming biography of the singer and actress. Long before she became a cultural icon, the Brooklyn-born Streisand was mocked, derided
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–At 6:01 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, 1968, Kentucky state senator Georgia Davis was brushing her hair in Room 201 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. She heard a gunshot outside. She stepped out and saw a dreadful commotion, just above, adjacent to Room 306. Powers told me: “I actually had
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World leaders gathered on Friday in Washington for the Nuclear Security Summit to discuss the growing threat of nuclear terrorism. Noting the chilling possibility of a nuclear attack, US President Barack Obama remarked that Islamic State terrorists have already made use of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, and that there is evidence
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It’s going to be a busy weekend for Donald Trump. Just ahead of what’s expected to be a close Republican primary in Wisconsin, Trump’s newborn Jewish grandson is to be circumcised. The GOP frontrunner anticipated Theodore James Kushner’s arrival in his speech to AIPAC last week, announcing: “My daughter, Ivanka, is about to have a
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