WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW) — President Barack Obama on Wednesday, Feb. 11, formally requested Congress to authorize the use of force against ISIL. Here is the text of his letter requesting that authorization: TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: The so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) poses a threat to the […]
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Middle East, USAIslamic State-linked Sinai terror group claims to decapitate 10 Israeli spies (JNS.org) An Islamic State-linked terror group in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has decapitated 10 men whom the terror group accused of spying for Israel and Egypt. In a video posted online by Wilayat Sinai (Province of Sinai), which was formerly known as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis,
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israel’s election campaign is settling down to right vs left, with several of the middle level and marginal parties campaigning on the basis of which camp they will join, a moderate level of nastiness between party leaders, and a higher level of nastiness between the two leading circulation newspapers. Zionist Union is
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LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — On February 8, the University of California Student Association’s (UCSA) voted 9 in favor, 1 against, and 6 abstaining, in favor of two divestment resolutions. One calls for divestment from American, Mexican, Russian, Turkish, Indonesian, Brazilian, Sri Lankan, and Egyptian government bonds. The other calls for divestment from certain companies that do business
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USALOS ANGELES (Press Release) — StandWithUs will hold its first community anti-BDS (Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions) conference from March 21-23, 2015 at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. BDS, an international propaganda campaign that seeks to delegitimize and erode support for the Jewish state, is the latest threat to Israel. This conference brings together the most comprehensive assembly of renowned
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, USACompiled by Donald H. Harrison Vermont’s two United States senators—Democrat Patrick Leahy and Independent Bernie Sanders have announced they will boycott the speech of Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu to a Joint Session of Congress on March 3. Leahy released a statement on Tuesday saying: “The unfortunate way that House leaders have unilaterally arranged this,
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Middle East, USA
JERUSALEM (Press Release)– President Reuven Rivlin and First Lady Nechama Rivlin hosted a special meeting of NA`AMAT, The Movement for the Advancement of the Status of Women, with the attendance of over one hundred and twenty representatives of the organization, from seven countries across North America, South America, and Europe. The meeting marked the
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International, Middle East, USA
WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)—Congressman Peter Roskam (R-Illinois) and Congressman Juan Vargas (D-California) on Tuesday, Feb. 10, introduced the U.S.-Israel Trade and Commercial Enhancement Act. “This bipartisan bill would counter the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel and strengthen the U.S.-Israel economic relationship,” the two members of Congress said. Over the past several years,
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Middle East, USA
SANTA CRUZ, California — After the Jewish community suffered two hate crimes at UC Davis in recent days, 23 organizations with hundreds of thousands of members and supporters demanded UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi conduct a formal investigation into registered student group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and one of its members, Azka Fayyaz, also
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Barack Obama burst upon the American political scene in 2004, when he gave the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, just four months after unexpectedly being elected the junior senator from Illinois. Less than five years later, in his first inaugural speech, President Obama intoned, “We will
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO– There is nothing physically imposing about Lou Dunst—a cherubic, dignified man with a sweet smile yet deep sorrowful eyes. At times, when he walks slowly by, it seems that a stiff wind could knock him down. But then you realize that not even the wind could do such a
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, USAReport: NGOs involved in Israeli-Palestinian conflict get $27 million in foreign aid (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Foreign governments donated some $27 million to 24 nongovernmental organizations involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict between 2012 and 2014, according to a new report by the Jerusalem-based research institute NGO Monitor. According to the report, released Monday, the donations
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The world quickly forgets– almost with blazing light speed… Some of us have short memories and some of us have long memories. This writer in particular will not ignore two noteworthy events that occurred in the last six months. Both of these events involved ISIS executing
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USACompiled by Donald H. Harrison The rhetoric is heating up over the scheduled March 3 speech that Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahyu is scheduled to give to a Joint Session of Congress. Jeremy Ben Ami, execuitve director of J Street, has taken umbrage at Netanyahu saying that he will give his speech “not just as the
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Donald H. Harrison, USA