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Jewish news briefs: March 13, 2015

IDF outlines defense of southern airport, braces for Islamic State-linked attack (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces—which is said to be preparing for the possibility of an Islamic State-linked terror attack along the Israel-Egypt border—is outlining its defense of the Timna Airport, the new international airport that is currently under construction in southern […]

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International, Middle East, USA

Rep. Davis: Ease pay down for student loans

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – When President Obama announced his Student Bill of Rights this week it contained language from a bill by Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-California). The San Diego Democrat’s bill helps borrowers pay down their student loans faster by directing extra payments go toward the principal and not toward the interest. “I was pleased

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Bipartisan MC’s want terrorists off Twitter

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — This week, Members of Congress (MC’s) Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) and Rep. Brad Sherman (D-California), senior members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Ed Royce (R-California), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-New York), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee sent

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Middle East, USA

Greece’s PM speaks out against anti- Semitism

ATHENS (Press Release)– A senior American Jewish Committee (AJC) leadership group just concluded a two-day visit to Greece. The six-member delegation, led by AJC President Stanley Bergman and Executive Director David Harris, was joined by leaders of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS), an AJC partner organization, and Andrew Manatos, a prominent leader

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International, Middle East, USA

Reform Jews condemn shooting of 2 Ferguson police

  WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — In response to Wednesday night’s (March 11) shooting of two police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, Rabbi Jonah Pesner, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement: “We condemn in the strongest terms last night’s shooting of two Ferguson police officers and are praying for their full

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Jewish Religion, USA

AMCHA praises student resolutions at UCLA, Berkeley

SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, AMCHA Initiative co-founder and director, issued the following statement Thursday, March 12, after the UCLA student senate unanimously approved a resolution condemning antisemitism on Tuesday, and UC President Janet Napolitano and UC Regents Chair Bruce Varner publicly condemned campus antisemitism on Wednesday. The UC Berkeley student government passed a

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Jewish news briefs: March 12, 2015

Netanyahu responds to criticism, says ‘security cannot be founded on delusions’ (JNS.org) As Israel’s March 17 election approaches, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to the recent wave of criticism directed at him by Meir Dagan, the former head of the Mossad spy agency. In an interview with Israel Hayom published Thursday, Netanyahu said Israel’s security

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International, Middle East, USA

Israel prepares for conflict along Syrian border

NEW YORK (Press Release) – The head of the Israel Defense Forces Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Hertzi Halevi, told the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) annual National Gala in New York on Tuesday evening, March 10, that Israel must be “prepared” for new conflicts along its northern border with Syria, whose internal violence seems like

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Middle East, USA

Campus tension evaporates for Israeli diplomat’s talk

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — There was a modicum of tension before Israel’s Consul -General based in Los Angeles, David Siegel, spoke in the upstairs auditorium of the new Melvin Garb Hillel Center alongside the San Diego State University campus.  After all, there were security precautions taken and Resa Levitt Kohn, head

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA