WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The United States has sued a former attorney and certified public accountant to bar him from promoting and implementing tax fraud schemes and preparing tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced on Monday, March 23. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, […]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC) — The leadership of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) met in Washington, DC for its annual Executive Committee meeting to discuss the growing threats to Jewish communities and the surge in anti-Semitism. At a special reception on Monday night, US Vice President Joe Biden commended WJC President Ronald S. Lauder for his
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Middle East, USATed Cruz, announcing presidential run, vows to support Israel ‘unapologetically’ (JNS.org) U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), upon announcing that he will run for president, said he would support Israel “unapologetically.” “Instead of a president who boycotts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, imagine a president who stands unapologetically with the nation of Israel,” Cruz told an audience
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The Huffington Post received a lot of coverage for its interview with President Barack Obama. It covered a good deal of territory, but what’s in its headline are the President’s judgments about Benyamin Netanyahu and Israel. Insofar as this is the President who preached democracy and equality in Cairo,
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) –Throughout late February and March, Israeli Apartheid Week took place across 200 cities around the world, from the UK and South Africa to Canada and the USA. Anti-Israel events have been held on university campuses and academic institutions, with the official aim, according to the organizers’ website, to build Boycott,
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Middle East, USAIsraeli-issued Passover travel warnings include Egypt and Turkey (JNS.org) In its biannual report for Israeli tourists, the Counterterrorism Bureau at the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office on Sunday warned that after Islamist terror attacks in Belgium, Canada, Australia, Denmark, and France over the past year, there is a possibility of further jihadist attacks against Israeli and
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — AIPAC has praised the bipartisan group of 367 members of the House who sent a letter to President Obama underscoring key conditions for a nuclear agreement with Iran. The letter was initiated by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-California) and Ranking Democrat Eliot Engel (D-New York). The letter
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NEW YORK (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is saddened by the death of Lee Kuan Yew, who served as Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990. He was 91 years old. Lee led Singapore’s separation from Malaysia and independence in 1965. He oversaw the country’s transformation from a fairly underdeveloped colonial outpost
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The State Department has announced the withdrawal of its personnel from Yemen. It issued this statement on Sunday, March 22: Due to the deteriorating security situation in Yemen, the U.S. Government has temporarily relocated its remaining personnel out of Yemen. We have informed President Hadi of this step as part
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Netanyahu won Israel in last week’s elections, but did he lose America in the process? Panicking not long before polling stations opened, the prime minister made two statements to woo voters: warning that Israel’s Arab citizens would vote “in droves” for their own and, second, that there would be
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Gevalt! This is not meant to mourn the election results, but the month or more of haggling and babbling that will surround us until there is a new government. Several times a day we’ll be hearing commentators speculating about who gets what ministries. Just as often we’ll hear the self-appointed “ranking”
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-California) became an original cosponsor of the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act to allow borrowers with high interest rates on their existing student loans in both the public and private markets to refinance these existing loans to lower interest rates. This would make these existing loans
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USALAUSANNE, Switzerland (Press Release)–Following is an excerpt of the comments made by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday, March 21, on the status of the P5+1 nuclear negotiations with Iran: SECRETARY KERRY: … I also want to thank particularly the Swiss Government. I’d like to thank Didier Burkhalter for his personal generous welcome to
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International, Middle East, USABy Donald H. Harrison The death of the mother of Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, the onset of the Iranian New Year, and the approaching deadline for the conclusion of the P5+1 negotiations over Iran’s nucelar aspirations, have prompted President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and the State Department to issue several expressions of
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