NEW YORK (Press Release)– U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, French Ambassador to the UN Francois Delattre, and Consul General of France in New York Bertrand Lortholary addressed a crowd of more than 150 people gathered at the American Jewish Committee on Monday, Jan. 12, to remember the 17 victims of the recent Islamist […]
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International, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Investment banker Antonio Weiss asked President Obama to withdraw his name on Monday, Jan. 12, for consideration as Undersecretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance. Some liberal senators, including Elizabeth Warrren (D-Mass) Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) and Al Franken (D-Minnesota) had said Weiss’s position with the Lazard
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NEW YORK (Press Release) –– The National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) and Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, Inc., are joining forces to raise awareness about human trafficking during January, which is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. The two national groups are kicking off their first-time partnership with a Jewish Community Day of Social
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USABy Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Mark Kirk (R-IL), and Bob Corker (R-TN) on Friday, Jan. 9, released a joint statement calling on the U.S. government to defund the Palestinian Authority (PA) over its decision to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). At the same time,
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Middle East, USABy Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — If I expected it to be comfortable to watch and contemplate and evaluate Ava DuVernay’s artistic triumph as director and un-credited screenwriter of Selma, then I devalued the deeply nuanced—and brave—realization of this unexpectedly brooding and appropriately disturbing movie. With imaginative, nimble performers who become, rather than play the
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By Patricia Bennett SAN DIEGO– The headlines ache our hearts and race our minds: Carnage at Charlie Hebdo; kosher market killings. What can we do? Alienated youth are joining radical groups for meaning and identity in the face of social instability and lack of opportunity. When their sense of self is not developed because they lack
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CHICAGO (Press Release)– A week ago, Dr. Theresa Louise-Bender Pape, Deputy Associate Chief of Staff and Clinical Neuroscientist at the Edward Hines JR VA Hospital, was ready to give up. For months, she had been attempting to secure medical air transport for U.S. Army Sergeant Jordan Adams, who was languishing in a coma in
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Natan Sharansky is by no means the only Israeli who says that Europe is doomed, at least as far as the Jews are concerned. In view of what has happened in Paris this week, one headline I saw described his words as prophetic. But it’s not only France that Sharansky has
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International, Middle East, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)—From the local level to the national and international, Jewish agencies on Friday, January 9, solidarity with France and condolences for the victims following a string of Islamist attacks against a French satire magazine, police officers, and customers in a kosher market. Michael Sonduck, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of
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International, Middle East, San Diego County, USAPARIS (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee’s Paris director has called for stepped up efforts to combat Islamist terrorism in France as violent attacks in Paris over the past two days expanded to a kosher supermarket. “What happened over the past 48 hours was a shock to the entire French nation,” said Simone Rodan-Benazquen,
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International, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — Conference of Presidents leaders Robert G. Sugarman, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO, expressed the solidarity of the Jewish community of the United States with the people of France in the wake of the horrendous attacks by Islamist terrorists on the Charlie Hebdo magazine, the killing of the female police
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Jewish Religion, USAAt least 2 killed in hostage crisis at kosher grocery in Paris (JNS.org) While the French operation to apprehend the Islamist terrorists behind Wednesday’s deadly shooting at the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper continues, at least two people have been killed Friday in a developing hostage crisis at a kosher grocery store in the Porte de
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The costs of being a Jew have increased, especially outside of Israel. Americans report increased discomfort from what they hear and read, some of it from individuals who don’t seem to realize the people they are speaking to are Jews. Emotional costs may be greater than elsewhere on campuses, but anyone attuned
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NEW YORK (Press Release)–Dr. Stephen Hazan Arnoff, who successfully expanded programing and grew the 14th Street Y in New York while executive director there before going on to become the first director of the Office of Culture, Community, and Society at Shalem College in Jerusalem, has been chosen to succeed Allan Finkelstein as president and
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