NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday, May 10, called on Donald Trump to renounce the support of William Johnson, one of the country’s most well-known white supremacists, who recently applied to and was accepted by the Trump campaign as a state delegate to the Republican presidential primary in California. Johnson’s name was reportedly […]
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USABy Natasha Josefowitz LA JOLLA, California — Are you an “adherence-to-the-law” person? Do you believe that law and order is to be respected and followed always and in all circumstances? Or are you a “respond to different needs” person? You believe that there are circumstances that permit needs to be considered on an individual basis—not
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Natasha Josefowitz, USAAlmost a year into his surreal campaign for president, the American political class still doesn’t know what to make of Donald Trump. The billionaire mogul’s defiance of all the standard rules of American politics, not to mention the orthodoxy of his own party, has left pundits scrambling to explain his takeover of the Republican Party.
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International, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Representative Peter J. Roskam is warning American and European companies not to sell airplanes and other products to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Today, he took to the House floor to continue sounding the alarm bells over The Boeing Company’s ongoing negotiations with government-run airlines in Iran. Last week, he joined
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Middle East, USABernie Sanders surprised Stephen Colbert Monday, a day before the West Virginia Democratic primary, with a simple message: He is not giving up. During the cold open of CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Colbert had just gotten his hand stuck in a vending machine trying to retrieve a 100 Grand bar, when in
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAUS Secretary of State John Kerry waffled over whether the US would attend a conference May 30 in Paris to force talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) Monday, shortly before a meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. “Well, it depends on timing and when we do it,” he began. “We”re going to
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International, Middle East, USA
Over 20 feet wide, the mural hanging from the ceiling of Burlington, Vermont’s Ohavi Zedek Synagogue is a survivor in multiple senses. Painted by a Lithuanian immigrant in 1910, it is a rare example of the wall paintings that once adorned the wooden synagogues of Eastern Europe that were destroyed in the Holocaust. “There is
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USABy Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) welcomed a detailed reaffirmation by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton of her opposition to BDS, the boycott, sanctions and divestment movement that has targeted Israel. “I believe that BDS seeks to punish Israel and dictate how the Israelis and Palestinians should resolve the core issues
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International, Middle East, USA
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — I traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan the end of last month, to be at my granddaughter, Hannah Gail Schiff’s graduation from the University of Michigan. I was pleased that she attended this institution that numbers many Jews among its faculty and student body. It also boasts one of the strongest
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Eileen Wingard, Science, Medicine, & Education, USANew York real estate mogul and reality television star Donald Trump may have sewn up the Republican nomination, but he”s trailing his likely general election opponent, Hillary Clinton, by double digits in hypothetical matchups. In the latest CNN/ORC poll Hillary beat Trump 54% to 41%, well outside of the poll”s 3% margin of error. Even
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Middle East, USA
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –Friendship Walk 2016 and the Israel Fest will be held Sunday, May 15, at San Diego Jewish Academy, 11860 Carmel Creek Rd., San Diego. People with and without special needs are invited to run, jog, walk or roll on the wheelchair and stroller friendly 5K walk route. Afterwards, they may join in the
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Middle East, San Diego County, USA
The past few months of national politics have been dominated by speculation that the Republican National Convention could turn ugly. It now appears the Democrats are headed toward their own version of convention conflict. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has run an unexpectedly tough campaign against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, wrote a letter
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USAWASHINGTON — With his prospects of becoming the Democratic nominee for president fading, Bernie Sanders is pushing hard for what he thinks is the next best thing: the party platform. It’s a document of policy positions and goals few are likely to read and the White House will barely notice. But Sanders hopes it will
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SAN ANTONIO, May 9, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Ten years and three months after its founding, Christians United for Israel (CUFI), the nation’s largest pro-Israel organization, has crossed the three million member mark. The news comes on the heels of an exceptional year for the Christian Zionist group, including the creation of a permanent Washington DC
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Middle East, USA