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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Releaase) – House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bob Filner announced that the President has signed H.R. 3219 into law.  The Veterans’ Benefits Act of 2010 improves and modernizes certain benefits administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for veterans and their families.  Filner said, “This new law is the result of numerous

  SAN DIEGO — Our guess is that the dueling television commercials pitting Meg Whitman against Jerry Brown and Carly Fiorina against Barbara Boxer for California governor and U.S. Senator respectively have made almost everybody wish that the Nov. 2nd election would have come and gone already – if only to quiet all this quarreling. 

NEW YORK (Press Release) — In remarks at a dinner where he was honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for his stalwart support of Israel and his commitment to promoting respect and speaking out against anti-Semitism, media magnate K. Rupert Murdoch described in stark terms what he sees as an “ongoing war against the Jews” and

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) has launched ads in Missouri and Pennsylvania calling on Democrats Robin Carnahan and Joe Sestak to give back the campaign contributions they received from J Street PAC. RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks said: “It’s important that when someone is seeking the trust and support of the

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday criticized Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino for a series of anti-gay remarks, including his assertion that children should not be “brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid or successful option.” Ron Meier, ADL New York Regional Director, issued the following statement: “We are

Editor, San Diego Jewish World: We are heartsick by what is happening to GLBT people in our country. Last night we read news accounts of the eighth teen suicide in the past few months – the suicide of 19-year-old Zach Harrington from Oklahoma. Earlier this weekend, we read the horrific story of the brutal attack

SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)–  As North American Jewish college students return to campus this Fall, their security on some campuses has been questioned by a leading group of antisemitism scholars in a statement on “Contemporary Antisemitism in Higher Education:  Manifestations, Sources, and Responses.”  Assembled for two weeks, July 26 – August 6, 2010, at the U.S.

 WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)— Democratic and Republican Jewish affiliate groups on Sunday, Oct. 10, criticized an Ohio Republican congressional candidate who dressed up as a Nazi SS man in a World War II re-creation, and in the process also criticized each other. The National Jewish Democratic Council was the first to issue a news release about

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) ton Saturday expressed outrage at the violent, brutal torture of a gay man in the Bronx.　 Over a period of hours, the victim was reportedly stripped, whipped, burned and sodomized by a gang of nine attackers who lured him into an apartment after first assaulting two

NEW YORK (WJC)–The 1986 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel has come out in favor of an inter-faith center near the site of the 9/11 terror attacks in Manhattan, rather than the controversial ‘Ground Zero mosque’. The plan by American Muslims to build a mosque and Islamic center in New York near where the World