COPS urges swift passage of anti-BDS bill NEW YORK (Press Release) . The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Thursday urged Congress to swiftly pass the Combating BDS Act of 2017 introduced by Republican Senator Marco Rubio and Democratic Senator Joe Manchin and supported by more than thirty co-sponsors from both sides
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International, USAIsraeli 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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Middle East, USAFollowing 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, USAManila (dpa) – A Philippine party-list representative on Thursday filed an impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte, the first attempt to unseat the leader in his eight-month administration. In his complaint before the House of Representatives, lawmaker Gary Alejano accused Duterte of culpable violation of the constitution, betrayal of public trust, graft and corruption, bribery
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InternationalWith all the attention on Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential elections, one could be forgiven for failing to notice that the race for the Kremlin is already on. President Vladimir Putin’s current term ends in 2018. In a video message last December, Alexey Navalny, the anticorruption crusader and relentless Kremlin critic, announced himself
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InternationalTokyo (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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International, USAHours 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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International, USAWhile 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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Middle East, USAThe challenge from Geert Wilders and his nationalist Freedom Party appears to have been seen off by the centre-right, but it may still take some time for the full impact of the Dutch election to be assessed. Euronews reporter James Franey talked to political analyst js Matthijs Rooduijn about who were the big winners and
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InternationalIf passed, new legislation would pay internet service providers from public coffers for every customer they convince to sign up to voluntary online filters By Times of Israel staff Likud parliament member Miki Zohar attends a Finance committee meeting, during a vote on the 2017-2018 state budget, at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 19,
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Middle EastPresident 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, USADonald Trump wants more than $3 billion over the next year and a half to start building his wall on the border with Mexico, one of a number of controversial requests the White House will roll out as part of its budget “blueprint” on Thursday. Related: Trump’s Controversial Budget Is Unlikely to Pass Congress The
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USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — When I visited Holland in 2015 to speak to Jewish and Christian audiences and to have private meetings with pro-Israel leaders I was told how Dutch Jews were increasingly fearful about speaking out or showing their support for Israel. Their main fears derived from the threatening atmosphere being stoked up
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International, Middle EastWASHINGTON, 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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