By Dmitriy Shapiro/JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Democratic and Republican parties battle for who will control the growing Latino-American vote, one young Hispanic politician is being eyed by Democrats as their party’s future. San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro was thrust into the national spotlight last month when President Barack Obama nominated the […]
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USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin MEMPHIS, Tennessee —When I returned again this week to this city of purple mists, hovering ghosts, and sudden ferocious rainstorms, the hole in my heart for my departed, adopted mother was real and dampening. Maxine Smith quietly died since my last visit (the only thing she ever did quietly); a ribald,
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USABy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM – On Saturday night, June 14, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his first official statement on the kidnapping of the three Israeli teenagers near the Hebron area that took place on Thursday. “I can’t share everything we know, but I can say: Our boys were kidnapped by a terrorist organization;
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) and nine of her colleagues on Friday, June 13, sent a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to take immediate action to combat gender-based violence and improve the safety of women and girls in India. The Senators’ letter to the newly-elected Prime Minister
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International, USAWASHINGTON,D.C. (Press Release0 – In a letter Friday, June 13, to the National Retail Federation, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy and Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty, all Connecticut Democrats, called on retailers to join the national, bipartisan push for commonsense gun violence reform measures and to consider voluntary measures individual retailers could take to immediately reduce
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW) — Amid the tension between Israel and the Palestinian Authority over the kidnapping of three teenagers, one of whom has dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship, the U.S. State Department issued a routine announcement that Charles H. Rivkin, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, Charles H. Rivkin, “will travel to Tel Aviv,
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We are going through another wave of demands that Israel take an initiative. According to this view, time is not on our side, and the status quo cannot continue. Looking at the prominent proposals, they differ significantly one from another, and all have a taste of having been made in
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CANBERRA, Australia (WJC)–Australian authorities have barred a Holocaust-denying Catholic bishop from entering the country. Bishop Richard Williamson was scheduled to speak in rural Australia later this month but his visa was revoked this week, the ‘Australian Jewish News’ reported. The Jewish newspaper said it had contacted the Department of Immigration last week to alert them
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EFRAT, Israel (TNA) – Three Israelis have been missing since Thursday night, June 12. They have gone missing in the Gush Etzion area. Security forces have been conducting extensive searches to locate them. The three are young men in their late teens and early twenties. The three are feared to have been abducted by terrorists.
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PARIS (WJC) –The European Jewish Congress (EJC) has announced that it will file a lawsuit in a Paris court against Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder and long-time leader of the far-right French National Front, after anti-Semitic remarks by Le Pen about Jewish singer Patrick Bruel which caused outrage. LePen said, “We will do a full
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International, Jewish HistoryPalestinian negotiator calls Netanyahu ‘filthy war criminal,’ slams Abbas (JNS.org) In a newly surfaced audio recording, Saeb Erekat—the top Palestinian negotiator in the collapsed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks—calls Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “filthy war criminal” and also harshly criticizes the leadership of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. “I don’t say shoot him. He isn’t worth
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW) –The White House announced Thursday that Vice President Biden spoke earlier in the day with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The Vice President expressed the United States’ solidarity with Iraq in its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The Prime Minister discussed Iraq’s current security situation, and
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—Seventeen U.S. Senators led by Ben Cardin (MD) Tom Harkin (D-IA) on Thursday, June 12, sent a letter to the ten largest tobacco companies urging them to prohibit child labor in their supply chain. The letter comes on the heels of a new report by Human Rights Watch. The report found
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW) — Stanley Fischer, who once governed the Bank of Israel, was confirmed on a 63-24 vote to serve as vice chairman of the U.S. Federal reserve. He succeeds Janet Yellen, who was elevated to the top position in the Fed, succeeding Ben Bernanke. Fischer, Yellen and Bernanke all are members of the
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