Editor’s Note: Here are the sections about human rights in Israel and the Territories that were part of a larger report issued on Thursday, Feb. 27, by the U.S State Department evaluating human rights issues around the world. * Israel Israel is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. Although it has no constitution, the parliament, the unicameral […]
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed concern at reports in the Israeli press that the Obama Administration is increasingly rejecting requests from Israeli citizens for visas to visit the United States. According to U.S. State Department records consulted by these reports, during 2013, 9.7% of Israelis who requested visas —
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USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you are surprised by this week’s announcement of major manpower cuts to the U.S. Army, you haven’t been paying attention. For a long time. There are two components to understanding America’s defense spending choices — the political and the budgetary; they are not the same. The Administration has
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By Estee Chandler LOS ANGELES — Stand With Us (SWU) Research and Education Director, Roberta Seid and CEO, Roz Rothstein’s opinion piece published in San Diego Jewish World under the title, “Israel foes, defenders spar before CSU Trustees” was an interesting read. But in the end, it gives me several reasons to be hopeful. They
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NEWTON, Massachusetts (Press Release)– The seventh edition of Jewish Major Leaguer Baseball Cards – a 50-card set largely focused on events in baseball involving Jewish players over the last four years, will be released on March 15. The 2010 edition, the fifth update, was thought to be the last. But popular demand, contributions and encouragement
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PHILADELPHIA –For most Jews in the United States, hunting laws are not a concern. Following World War II, most Jews settled in urban or suburban areas, far from roaming turkeys, elk, bears, and deer outside of the occasional casualty in the highway emergency lane. Therefore, few even realize that the same seemingly archaic statutes that
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USANEW YORK (Press Release)–Adherents of the “sovereign citizen” movement are forming their own vigilante “grand juries” in counties across the United States in an attempt to exact pressure on local government officials to accede to their anti-government demands and whims. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which monitors domestic anti-government groups and reports on their activities, has
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NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday, Feb. 13, applauded Michael Sam, a defensive lineman from the University of Missouri and likely top NFL draft pick, who is the first NCAA Division I college football player to come out as a gay man. ADL encouraged NFL teams to judge all players by their
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LOS ANGELES (Press Release)—Abby J. Leibman, President & CEO at MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger (MAZON) has issued this statement regarding the Agricultural Act of 2014: “It is a relief that the extremely long and painful negotiations over our nation’s agricultural and nutrition safety net programs are finally behind us. But our relief is tempered
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LOS ANGELES (Press Release)—In response to the escalating number of seniors struggling to put food on the table, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger (MAZON) has launched a new initiative, in partnership with the Association of Jewish Family & Children’s Agencies (AJFCA), designed to help low-income, food-insecure seniors get the nutrition assistance they need. More
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Travel and Food, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — Abraham H. Foxman on Monday, Feb. 10, announced he will step down from his position as National Director of the Anti-Defamation League on July 20, 2015, bringing to a close a 50-year career in Jewish communal service. “For almost five decades, ADL offered me the perfect vehicle to live a
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California –How was it that a bawdy, bulky, cowboy-caricature of a roughshod politician, a man with a foul mouth and oversized hands, a classic “good ol’ boy,” became the one who truly signed off on the civil rights legislation that Martin Luther King had dreamed about for so long? And
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PALM BEACH, Florida — Citing his inspirational leadership in promoting democratic values worldwide when faced with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 during one of the most dramatic and consequential periods in American history; his commitment to securing Israeli-Palestinian peace; and his establishment of the United States’ first Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat
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USALOS ANGELES (Press Release)–The AMCHA Initiative on Friday, Feb. 7, issued the following statement commending House Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Representative Dan Lipinkski (D-IL) for their bipartisan bill to make universities that fund groups boycotting Israeli academic institutions ineligible for federal funds. “Academic boycotts violate academic freedom and are antithetical to the
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