By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – Former Arkansas Governor and Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee is currently on a week long visit in Israel on what has been defined as a fact-finding tour, focused on the challenges facing Israelis in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, as well as the threat of anti-Israel de-legitimization efforts such as […]
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Middle East, USAToday, we’re coming after the Saturday people; after we finish, we will come after the Sunday people By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — My personal history with the Presbyterian Church goes back to the early 1990s, when they accepted me as a student for their doctoral program. In the three years I
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USA
By Sheryl DeVore SOUTH BEND, Indiana — When Andrew Berlin purchased a losing baseball team with the goal of improving park attendance and scores, he didn’t realize that he would also be repurposing a century-old synagogue that could have easily succumbed to the wrecking ball. The CEO of Berlin Packaging, a Chicago-based business with
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Jewish Religion, Sports & Competitions, USA
SACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) — Assemblymember Marc Levine (D-San Rafael) issued the following statement on the June 12th kidnapping of yeshiva students Eyal Yifrach (19), Gilad Shaar (16), and Naftali Frenkel (16). The Israeli youth were kidnapped on June 12th while traveling in Kfar Etzion. Frenkel holds both Israeli and U.S. citizenship. “This abhorrent act
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) on Tuesday, June 24, called on the agency to immediately direct car dealers that sell used-cars to change any policy which may potentially allow the sale of recalled vehicles without first fixing safety defects, putting used-car buyers
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release) – Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan., delivered remarks Tuesday, June 24, at a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and presenting a Congressional Gold Medal in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. Levin sponsored legislation awarding
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California are exploring whether patient satisfaction surveys linked to Medicare payments encourage opioid pain reliever abuse, already a national epidemic. The senators wrote to the federal agency in charge of Medicare payments on agency practices in this area. “There is
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement in response to the ruling by the United States Supreme Court that upholds the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to set carbon pollution standards within the guidelines of the Clean Air
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The World We Share, USA
WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)—Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-New York), the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, on Tuesday, June 24, made the following statement on the conferral of European Union candidate status for Albania: “With today’s announcement conferring EU candidate status, Albania has cleared another hurdle on the way toward EU membership
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International, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –The International Creativity and Theft-Prevention Caucus, which is chaired by Congressmen Adam Schiff (D-California) and Bob Goodlatte (R-Virginia), and Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), unveiled on Tuesday, June 24, the “2014 International Piracy Watch List.” In an effort to fight copyright piracy and call attention to
WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – Congressman Brad Sherman, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade, was joined by four Members of Congress – Kerry Bentivolio, Adam Schiff, Tulsi Gabbard, and Tom Petri – in sending a letter to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to express deep concern over human rights violations
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International, USA
SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release) – The 34th edition of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival returns to the Bay Area July 24-August 10, 2014 at the Castro Theatre and Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco, the CinéArts Theatre in Palo Alto, the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, The California Theatre and
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Jewish Religion, USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — A group of American victims of terror and family members of those who have been injured or killed in attacks sponsored by the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran) have moved to attach and seize the internet licenses, contractual rights and domain names being provided by the United States to
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Wednesday, June 25, marks the one-year anniversary of the Shelby v. Holder Supreme Court decision that invalidated parts of the Voting Rights Act. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the Voting Rights Amendment Act (VRAA). Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism,
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Jewish Religion, USA