NEW YORK (Press Release) – The Patriot Act’s overly broad definitions of “terrorist activity” and “terrorist group” that have unjustly prevented thousands of refugees — who do not pose a threat to the United States – from receiving protection in the United States, will no longer be applied to certain refugees, according to an announcement […]
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By Debra Rubin/JNS.org Aviva Sufian was just 8 years old when her mother took her to an American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors event in Philadelphia in 1985. She remembers survivor after survivor standing up and announcing, “My name is, and this is where I’m from.” Sufian, whose grandparents had come to this country shortly
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By Ryan Scott Karben NEW YORK — There was a political earthquake in Albany on Tuesday, Feb. 4, and its tremors reached Jerusalem. A bill to penalize organizations at New York universities that participate in academic boycotts of Israel was yanked from consideration by the State Assembly’s Committee on Higher Education at the last minute.
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WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)- Congresswoman Susan Davis (CA-53) joined her colleagues in offering an amendment to let the Secretary of the Interior include climate change in considering decisions on conservation and recreation on public lands. The amendment was an effort to improve a House Majority legislation (HR 3590) attempting to undermine environmental protections for National
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USAWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)- The Republican National Committee (RNC) announced on Tuesday, Feb. 4, the launch of a new start-up lab called “Para Bellum Labs, America! The phrase “parabellum” was used by a German arms manufacturer as a name for its signature guns-first, the light machine gun used by the Kaiser’s best during World War I, and then its most
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A set of guidelines issued by House Republicans called “The Standards for Immigration Reform” has been greeted with mixed reviews by Jewish organizations concerned with immigration. HIAS, formerly known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, said on Friday, Jan. 31, that it “welcomed the GOP Principles on Immigration Reform as an important
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WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)- The National Jewish Democratic Council on Wednesday, Jan. 29, congratulated President Obama on a visionary and practical State of the Union address delivered the day before. NJDC Executive Director, Rabbi Jack Moline said: “The President’s agenda- environmental responsibility, protection of voting rights, educational excellence, immigration reforms and financial security for all
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USANEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday, Jan. 29, highlighted the danger of proselytizing and harassment within the U.S. military and called for effective, uniform guidance promoting religious respect. The League submitted its statement to the “Religious Accommodations in the Armed Services” hearing before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel. ADL
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USAWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)- The Jewish Council for Public Affairs welcomed President Obama’s support for unemployment insurance as part of the robust agenda to increase opportunity that he described tonight in his State of the Union address. In addition to extending unemployment insurance to those out of work the longest, a priority of the organized
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NEW YORK (Press Release) –Jack Rosen, president of American Jewish Congress has thanked Members of the House of Representatives who signed on to the bipartisan letter opposing the American Studies Association (ASA) vote calling for an academic boycott of Israel. “AJCongress is in full support of the Members who stand with those who believe in
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By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org BOSTON–The Ruderman Family Foundation on Monday, Jan. 27, announced that Dr. Michael Ashley Stein, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and an internationally recognized expert on disability rights, will receive the inaugural $100,000 Morton E. Ruderman Award in Inclusion. Stein is the co-founder and executive director of the Harvard Law School
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Jacob Kamaras, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Uncertainty, and overdeveloped egos in high places are two realities of politics. First, uncertainties. They prevail in the competitive world of politics. Even the banal stuff of domestic policy can set the commentators wondering about what comes next. Currently the Middle East is in worse shape than the local squabbles
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Ira Sharkansky, USANEW YORK (Press Release)– In response to reports of anti-Semitism in the Pine Bush, N.Y. school district and elsewhere in the town, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has brought its Confronting Anti-Semitism program to Orange County in an effort to empower and equip the local Jewish community with constructive and effective responses to anti-Semitic incidents and
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USABy Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — One of the characteristics of “one-man rule,” whether autocratic, theocratic, authoritarian, or totalitarian, is the absence of “mistakes, blunders and scandals” because the dictator answers to no one and to no law. In the Roman empire, “the Prince is exempt from the Laws,” (Princeps legibus solutus est.)
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