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ADL makes anti-bullying recommendations to White House

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday, March 9,  submitted recommendations on how the U.S. government can more effectively address the issue of bullying and cyberbullying, ahead of a White House Bullying Prevention Conference on March 10. “Bullying and harassment is a continuing problem for school districts, parents and students across the nation,” […]

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J Street objects to King’s hearing on Islamic radicalization

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami released the following statement as Congressman Peter King (R, NY-03) prepares to hold a congressional hearing on Thursday on “Islamic radicalization” in the United States: “J Street strongly objects to Congressman Peter King’s provocative and anti-Muslim congressional hearing scheduled for Thursday. We urge America’s political leaders

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Here are 3 helpful tools for analyzing national leaders

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–There are those for whom the term “social science” is a contradiction in terms. There are few cases where my colleagues in political science, sociology, economics, psychology and our cousins have results at the level of the best work by physicists or chemists. “Medical science” also provokes doubt, especially when patients die

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Racial profiling still common in America, Leadership Conference reports

WASHINGTON, D.C.  (Press Release)– The Leadership Conference, a coalition of Civil Rights organizations, reports that racial profiling by law enforcement agencies is still common in the United States, and that African-Americans, Hispanics and Muslims are the people most often targeted.   The group’s report, issued Tuesday, demands reforms.  Here is a link. The report was issued

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U.S. needs to focus on what IS Middle East reality, not what SHOULD BE

By Barry Rubin   HERZLIYA, Israel — President Barack Obama told Democratic Party contributors  in Miami: “When you look at what’s happening…in the Middle East, it is a manifestation of new technologies, the winds of freedom that are blowing through countries that have not felt those winds in decades, a whole new generation that says I want

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Obama administration encouraging Islamist takeovers in Middle East

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — In a moment, I’ll present you with what might be the most frightening paragraph in the modern history of U.S. Middle East policy. But first, here’s one that’s among the most deplorable. It’s from a Washington Post article: “The Obama administration is preparing for the prospect that Islamist governments

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Palestinian snub of U.S. consulate brings U.S. foreign aid there in question

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Since the establishment of a Palestinian governing authority in 2003, the United States has provided it with more than $3.5 billion in aid, more than $2 billion since 2007 to “strengthen” Abu Mazen after the ouster of Fatah from Gaza. The 2010 figure was $500 million. The intrepid investigators

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On President Obama’s ‘ideologism’ versus ‘pragmatism’

By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D LA JOLLA, California–In my previous articles, I wrote about the “structural endemic obstacles” that plague our system of government and lead to immobilism and, even, to paralysis. In this analysis I concentrate on a very disturbing flaw in our political discourse that makes the decision-making process a herculean task. I am

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ADL denounces Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic campaign

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said Tuesday that anti-Semitism was “front and center” at the Nation of Islam’s annual meeting near Chicago, and that the organization and its longtime leader, Louis Farrakhan, continue to engage in a targeted campaign against Jews. Minister Farrakhan’s February 27 keynote address featured a range of conspiratorial

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StandWithUs readies pro-Israel campus counter-offensive

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– “Israel Apartheid Week” (IAW) campaigners will be in for a surprise when they mount their seventh annual hate fest this spring. Pro-Israel students on campuses are ready for them. Over the past year, StandWithUs campus coordinators have worked closely with students to brainstorm about the responses that would be most effective

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Record numbers of North Americans apply for Birthright trips to Israel

NEW YORK (Press Release)– A record 40,108 eligible Jewish young adults in North America applied to participate in a Taglit-Birthright Israel trip this summer. Registration for the trip, which closed Tuesday morning (Feb. 22) after only seven days, represents both the highest number of applicants from North America and the shortest registration period for summer trips.

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