WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)- The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) remembers one of our key founders, Hyman Bookbinder, who passed away Thursday following a storied career in Jewish communal service. He was the inaugural recipient of NJDC’s Hubert H. Humphrey Humanitarian Award, NJDC’s highest honor — which was later bestowed to President Bill Clinton and […]
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USANEW YORK (Press Release)– The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) on Wednesday filed a complaint against Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights because of a hostile anti-Semitic campus environment. The complaint, based on troubling reports from Jewish students, describes in detail the anti-Semitic harassment, intimidation and
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By Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California — Most people identify the “Middle-East problems” with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but that is only one of them, and not the most dangerous to peace and stability in the region and in the world. Today, the two poles of potential disaster for the security of the United States
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By Shoshana Bryen Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Obama administration is withholding $800 million of the $2 billion in current aid to Pakistan, angry over the (limited) level of Pakistani pursuit of Taliban elements attacking U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. The United States believes intelligence information provided to Pakistan has been shared with insurgents
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Shoshana Bryen, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Emerson Winfield Begolly, 22, of New Bethlehem, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., Thursday for allegedly soliciting Islamic extremists to engage in acts of terrorism within the United States and posting bomb-making instruction materials online. The indictment was announced by Lisa Monaco, Assistant Attorney General for National Security;
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USAWashington, DC (Press Release) – Leaders from The Jewish Federations of North America weighed in Wednesday on the ongoing budget and debt ceiling negotiations and urged the Senate Democratic Steering Committee in a special meeting to protect programs that support vulnerable U.S. populations and the Jewish community at large. Many critical programs are under threat
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USAWASHINGTON, DC- (Press Release) –The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) congratulates Janice Hahn on her successful bid to represent California’s 36th Congressional district. In the special election held today, Hahn defeated her Tea Party-backed Republican opponent, Craig Huey, and dealt a blow to the hopes of Republican leaders who had hoped to send another extremist
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – In an effort to combat the growing threat of radicalization in U.S. prisons, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Rep. Peter King (R-NY) today asked the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to remove inflammatory written, audio and video materials produced by the “Nation of Islam” and Louis Farrakhan in BOP facilities
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By Donald H. Harrison POWAY, California – As the aroma of kosher hot dogs and hamburgers wafted from the barbecues on the parking lot of Ner Tamid Synagogue in the early evening of July 4th, Rabbi Nadav Caine and congregational president Mitchell Freedman, each in turn, contemplated how American ideals reflect those articulated in Jewish
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USABy Senator Barbara Boxer WASHINGTON, D.C. –On the Fourth of July, we celebrate not only America’s birthday but also the birth of our nation’s founding ideals as set forth in the Declaration of Independence. On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress met to approve Thomas Jefferson’s revolutionary statement “that all men are created equal,
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USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Muslim Brotherhood, The Fourth of July: compare and contrast. The Declaration of Independence reflects our founders’ understanding of man, State and God. The rights that come to man from God are unalienable – life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – and drawn broadly enough to encompass all
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — The founding parents of this nation—the greatest experiment in democracy ever known in human history—were motivated by egalitarian values and aspirations first noted in the Hebrew Bible. When Moses looked Pharaoh in the eye and proclaimed, “Let my people go,” he foretold the visceral objections of Franklin, Jefferson,
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — In 1966 Senator George Aiken (R Vt) said that America should declare victory and leave Vietnam. What he actually said was more nuanced, but the press simplified it in a way that did not distort his message. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Aiken Between 1966 and the final US pullout marked by the
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Ira Sharkansky, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C — The United States is involved in hostilities in five countries across the Middle East and Southwest Asia – Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Libya. It is not too much to ask that the Administration explain where, why and what we plan to accomplish. Thus far, there are more questions
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