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Jewish news briefs: January 26, 2015

Ari Ne’eman, disability self-advocate on a national stage, awarded $100K inclusion prize (JNS.org) Disability self-advocate Ari Ne’eman, a member of the President’s National Council on Disability, on Monday was named the recipient of the second annual Morton E. Ruderman Award in Inclusion, a $100,000 prize from the Boston and Israel-based Ruderman Family Foundation (RFF) that […]

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International, Middle East, USA

AJC wishes Tsipras success as Greece’s new P.M.

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The American Jewish Committee (AJC) congratulated Alexis Tsipras, head of the Syriza political party, which convincingly won Greece’s national elections on Sunday, Jan. 25. Tsipras will serve as prime minister in the next government, succeeding Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. “Greece continues to face enormous economic and social challenges that will engage the incoming

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International, Middle East, USA

Sunday news shows examine Bibi- Barack flap

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The flap over House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu to speak before a Joint Session of Congress, and the latter’s acceptance, without either man checking with President Barack Obama first, was a point of discussions on the Sunday morning television news shows. On CBS’s Face

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA

Netanyahu tells Cabinet why he’ll address Congress

JERUSALEM (Press Release)–Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, at the start of his weekly Cabinet meeting, explained why he has accepted the invitation from the Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, to address a joint session of Congress.  Here is the text of his remarks: “In the coming weeks, the major powers are liable

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Middle East, USA

Amanda Rothschild and the state of the restaurant

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—A video of U.S. President Barack Obama eating lunch at Charmington’s Restaurant in Baltimore with several women including the restaurant’s managing partner, Amanda Rothschild, was distributed by the White House during the week leading up to the President’s State of the Union Address on January 20 in which he called

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Donald H. Harrison, USA

The mayor of the Roanoke Sheraton

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California –Every once in a while you run into someone you’ve never seen before who winds up making a home in your soul.  Days after the encounter, when you are situated comfortably in your home, it becomes clear that you will likely never see that person again.  A gaping distance,

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USA

Netanyahu, Obama: Who said what and when

Compiled by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The rumors and “not for attribution” comments are far outdistancing what U.S. officials have put on the record concerning President Barack Obama’s alleged anger with Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for agreeing to speak before a Joint Session of Congress, now planned March 3. So let’s go

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA

U.S. equips Palestinian army on West Bank

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, officials from the U.S. Consulate in East Jerusalem attended a Palestinian protest over Israel’s removal of olive trees illegally planted in the West Bank. Coordinated with the Palestinian Authority [PA] but not Israel, the Consulate personnel ended up clashing with Israelis living nearby. It was, perhaps, the

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA