WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – Americans for Peace Now called Monday, March 2, on Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from using his speech to undermine diplomacy with Iran, further deepening the partisan rift on Capitol Hill, and causing further divisions among American Jews. Debra DeLee, the President and CEO of Americans for Peace […]
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Middle East, USAGENEVA, Switzerland (Press Release)– U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told a news conference Monday, March 2, that he called upon the U.N. Human Rights Council to correct its “excessive bias, in our judgment, on one country, on Israel.” Following is a transcript of his remarks to a news conference following his appearance before the Council.
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)– Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) withdrew from Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s roundtable discussion event “The Meaning of Never Again: Preventing a Nuclear Iran,” following a distasteful advertisement placed in the New York Times showing National Security Advisor Susan Rice and a pile of skulls. The bottom of the advertisement invited the public to
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Middle East, USA(JNS.org) French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that the anti-Israel sentiment spreading across France can be considered anti-Semitism. In the 1970s, the French elite developed a new kind of anti-Semitism, focused primarily on Israel and Zionism, Valls told the Wall Street Journal. This new bigotry, he said, has “all the components of anti-Semitism, the old ones,” such as
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (JNS.org) United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, speaking to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference on Monday morning, March 2, touted U.S. efforts to support Israel at the U.N. and said the U.S.-Israel relationship “transcends politics.” Power called it “bitterly unjust that the United Nations, an institution founded
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Middle East, USAJacob Kamaras/JNS.org WASHINGTON, DC—A day before his much-debated speech about Iran to a joint session of Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, March 2, attempted to assure the 16,000 people attending the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference—an annual showcase for the U.S-Israel relationship—that current tension will not derail the countries’ friendship.
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Jacob Kamaras, Middle East, USAReport: Egyptian army given green light to strike Gaza (JNS.org) The Egyptian military has received authorization from the country’s government to carry out strikes in the Gaza Strip, Egyptian media reported on Sunday. According to the reports, the Egyptian government’s legal adviser sanctioned the legitimacy of an attack in Gaza following a Supreme Court decision
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—When Joseph Kanfer, the father of Purell hand sanitizers, focuses this week on Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speeches to AIPAC and to Congress, he will do so “because I think it is necessary for our very survival but my love is Jewish education.” Kanfer, whose GOJO manufacturing company is
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USANEW YORK (Press Release) – American Jewish Committee (AJC) Executive Director David Harris on Sunday, March 1, issued the following statement regarding a full-page ad in the Feb. 28 edition of the New York Times, sponsored by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, assailing U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice: “As AJC said in a tweet yesterday, this ad was ‘way
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Middle East, USAIsland of Hope, Island of Tears: The Story of Those Who Entered the New World Through Ellis Island by David Brownstone, Irene M. Franck, Douglass Brownstone, (MetroBooks, 2004). By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO–The word “immigrant” brings to mind a picture of a woman with a lined face, head covered by a babushka (scarf), holding a wide
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Jewish History, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–The Israeli media have reported recently on another secretly recorded conversation between Mrs. Sarah Netanyahu, the wife of the prime minister, and the spouse of the former mayor of Sderot, the town that was hit by many of the Hamas rockets last year. The ex-mayor had apparently criticized the prime minister,
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — For a political scientist committed to the view that democratic politics is the essence of civilization, an election campaign can be a difficult test. The one we are experiencing, like some others I’ve seen, brings out the worst in those aspiring to national leadership. It’s not like an academic seminar
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NEW YORK (Press Release) – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) mourns the passing of Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, one of the most influential American Catholic leaders of our time, who died Feb. 26 at the age of 97. He distinguished himself as a renowned educator and spiritual leader, as a staunch defender of civil rights and
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NEW YORK (Press Release)… The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) strongly criticized an ad in Saturday’s (Feb 28) New York Times calling National Security Advisor Susan Rice “blind” to genocide. The full page ad, placed by This World: The Values Network run by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, runs through a litany of personal attacks on Ambassador Rice’s character
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