WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)– Americans for Peace Now (APN) on Monday, June 16, expressed deep concern for the safety of the three Israeli Yeshiva students who were kidnapped last Friday in the West Bank. “Our hearts and prayers are with the three and with their families. We stand in solidarity with their families and the […]
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SACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) — Leaders of Reform CA, an initiative of the California Reform Jewish Movement for justice, said they are “overjoyed by the bold decision of our state leadership to invest significant and long-term cap-and-trade funding into the building of affordable homes near transit in California”. Rabbi Stephanie Kolin, Co-Director of the Union
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USAJERUSALEM (Press Release) — The President of the State of Israel, Shimon Peres, spoke to the newly elected President of Egypt, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, Saturday and congratulated him on his election. President Peres stressed Israel’s commitment to maintain the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt and strengthening the cooperation between the countries. President Peres wished
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By Kenneth L. Marcus/JNS.org In a recent issue of Time magazine, Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, former president of the Union for Reform Judaism, writes that anti-Semitism is “not a threat to American Jews.” He could not be more wrong. Let us start with the obvious. Any threat to world Jewry is a threat to American
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USABy Dmitriy Shapiro/JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week WASHINGTON, D.C. — While Hillary Rodham Clinton jets around the country promoting her newly released memoir Hard Choices, a group of prominent Jewish Democrats has placed bets on the former secretary of state in advance of her possible run for the presidency. Others, however, are using parts of the memoir
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By Dmitriy Shapiro/JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Democratic and Republican parties battle for who will control the growing Latino-American vote, one young Hispanic politician is being eyed by Democrats as their party’s future. San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro was thrust into the national spotlight last month when President Barack Obama nominated the
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USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin MEMPHIS, Tennessee —When I returned again this week to this city of purple mists, hovering ghosts, and sudden ferocious rainstorms, the hole in my heart for my departed, adopted mother was real and dampening. Maxine Smith quietly died since my last visit (the only thing she ever did quietly); a ribald,
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) and nine of her colleagues on Friday, June 13, sent a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to take immediate action to combat gender-based violence and improve the safety of women and girls in India. The Senators’ letter to the newly-elected Prime Minister
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International, USAWASHINGTON,D.C. (Press Release0 – In a letter Friday, June 13, to the National Retail Federation, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy and Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty, all Connecticut Democrats, called on retailers to join the national, bipartisan push for commonsense gun violence reform measures and to consider voluntary measures individual retailers could take to immediately reduce
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW) — Amid the tension between Israel and the Palestinian Authority over the kidnapping of three teenagers, one of whom has dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship, the U.S. State Department issued a routine announcement that Charles H. Rivkin, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, Charles H. Rivkin, “will travel to Tel Aviv,
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW) –The White House announced Thursday that Vice President Biden spoke earlier in the day with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The Vice President expressed the United States’ solidarity with Iraq in its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The Prime Minister discussed Iraq’s current security situation, and
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—Seventeen U.S. Senators led by Ben Cardin (MD) Tom Harkin (D-IA) on Thursday, June 12, sent a letter to the ten largest tobacco companies urging them to prohibit child labor in their supply chain. The letter comes on the heels of a new report by Human Rights Watch. The report found
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW) — Stanley Fischer, who once governed the Bank of Israel, was confirmed on a 63-24 vote to serve as vice chairman of the U.S. Federal reserve. He succeeds Janet Yellen, who was elevated to the top position in the Fed, succeeding Ben Bernanke. Fischer, Yellen and Bernanke all are members of the
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – In the face of international protest, Israel’s government is going ahead and approving plans for the construction of 1,084 new housing units in six West Bank settlements, including in outposts that were originally been built in violation of Israeli law and later legalized by the government, Americans for Peace Now
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