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Rabin’s memory still fuels mourning, love, anger

Israeli diplomat Itamar Rabinovich, said the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin seemed “willing to go the distance” to make peace with Arabs. Photos by Robert Wiener Rabin’s eldest daughter, Dalia, said, “Israel has not become a more tolerant society” since her father’s death. Photos by Robert Wiener Princeton University professor and former American ambassador Daniel […]

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JCC Threats Linked To Decline In Preschool Enrollment

Following waves of bomb threats targeting Jewish Community Centers across the country, more than a quarter of JCC preschools have reported a decline in enrollment. In a survey carried out last week by the Jewish Community Center Association of North America, in which 90 of its 116 members responded, 26 replied that enrollment has fallen.

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Tillerson says Asian allies critical amid N Korea nuclear threat

Tokyo (dpa) – US Secretary of State Tillerson said on Thursday cooperation with Japan and South Korea is “critical” to deal with a growing nuclear missile threat from North Korea. US President Donald Trump’s top diplomat told Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo that strengthening US relations with Japan and trilateral cooperation with South

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Meet the Judges Blocking Trump’s New Travel Ban

Hours before President Donald Trump’s second executive order temporarily banning travel to the U.S. from certain countries and suspending the refugee resettlement program was set to take effect, it was halted by a federal district court judge in Hawaii. Shortly after that, another district court judge, in Maryland, also issued an order against it. First,

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With Friedman’s confirmation looming, US Jews range from despondent to exhilarated

While left-wing J Street says the ambassador-designate shows ‘breathtaking disdain for the vast majority of American Jews,’ the right-wing ZOA says he reflects ‘widely-held views of the American public’ By Eric Cortellessa David Friedman, nominated to be US Ambassador to Israel, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, at his confirmation hearing

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Trump budget calls for slashing biomedical and science research funding

President Trump’s proposed budget chops $6 billion, about a fifth of the total budget, from the National Institutes of Health, a move that could decimate biomedical research in a number of areas and stagger academic institutions around the country that depend on NIH grant money to keep their scientific research programs afloat. Research funding at

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Rep. Davis seeks to ban jury bias on sexual grounds

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Rep. Susan Davis (D-CA) introduced the Juror Non-Discrimination Act to prohibit removal from a jury based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Rep. Pat Meehan (R-PA) joined Davis as lead cosponsor of the bill. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Susan Collins (R-ME) introduced companion legislation in the Senate. “Equal treatment

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COP denounces latest anti-Israel report from U.N.

NEW YORK (Press Release) — Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations today called on United Nations Secretary General Guterres to publicly reject a UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) report unjustly accusing Israel of being “an apartheid regime that dominates the Palestinian people as a whole.”  The report was co-authored

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Russian Billionaire In Spotlight Over Property Deal With Trump

After Donald Trump’s 2005 tax returns were revealed on a cable TV show Tuesday, the president’s property deal in 2008 with Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev grabbed attention. Trump sold his Palm Beach, Florida, mansion — that he bought for $41 million in a 2004 auction — for a whooping $95 million in 2008 when the

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Trump blasts Hawaii judge’s order blocking revised travel ban

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s travel ban against citizens from six Muslim-majority nations just hours before it was due to go into effect. It was the second time a Trump order seeking to temporarily limit U.S. entry from Muslim-majority countries has been blocked by a federal

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Lindsey Graham: Congress will ‘flex its muscle’ if we don’t get wiretap answers

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday Congress is going to “flex its muscle” if the Justice Department doesn’t start to provide answers on President Trump’s claims that former President Barack Obama wiretapped phones in Trump Tower during last year’s campaign. Mr. Graham said he hasn’t heard back from DOJ or the FBI on whether there’s any

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Florida Senate, again, passes ‘Stand Your Ground’ reforms

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — This could be the year the Republican-led Florida Legislature succeeds in enacting a controversial change to the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law that prosecutors warn could lead to a flood of self-defense claims and would force state attorneys to essentially try cases twice. For the second consecutive session, Florida senators on Wednesday

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No evidence is expected to back Trump’s wiretap claims, House intelligence leaders say

WASHINGTON — The leading members of the House Intelligence Committee haven’t seen and don’t expect to see any evidence backing up President Donald Trump’s allegations that Trump Tower was wiretapped during last year’s presidential campaign. With the committee scheduled to take its first public testimony Monday in its investigation of Russian meddling in the election,

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