By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM – President Shimon Peres met Sunday morning, June 22, with Esther Pollard, wife of incarcerated Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, and the heads of the Knesset Caucus to Free Jonathan Pollard, MK’s Nachman Shai Ayelet Shaked, at the President’s residence in Jerusalem. The meeting took place a day before Peres is scheduled […]
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — It’s hard to rationalize the incongruity of the recent cover of TIME Magazine, which petulantly asks the question, “Was he worth it?” The feature was a symptom of our malignant gossip culture. Smug pundits and cynical politicians muse with alarming insensitivity about issues without offering any moral context.
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Middle East, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) — All low-income 4-year-olds in California will be guaranteed access to high quality preschool under the budget signed by Governor Brown with legislative leaders Friday morning in San Diego. The expansion and improvement of pre-Kindergarten opportunities, championed by State Senate leader Darrell Steinberg, the state’s Senate Democratic Caucus, and the state’s
SACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) – State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) has just introduced a bill to ban offshore oil drilling from an area of state waters in the Santa Barbara Channel known as Tranquillon Ridge, her office said Friday, June 20. The area is designated as a Marine Protected Area because of its sensitive
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SACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) — Assemblymember Steve Fox (D-Palmdale) announced that Assembly Bill (AB) 736, a measure which could eventually pave the way for a new California State University Campus in the Antelope Valley, received unanimous approval from the Senate Education Committee. The bill now will move to the Senate Appropriations Committee for consideration. “Our
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congressman John Yarmuth (D-Kentucky) has announced that he voted in favor of a provision to prevent the administration from sending U.S. combat troops to Iraq when the issue came before the House of Representatives on Thursday evening, June 18. The amendment to the FY2015 Department of Defense appropriations bill, introduced
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Lois Lerner, who has been the subject of an investigation and considerable editorial comment as the person in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) who was responsible for deciding whether organizations deserved tax-exempt status, was defended by Congressman Sandy Levin (D-Michigan), ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, against
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USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel– There is no doubt that Israel’s best friend is America. Without American support in the United Nations Security Council, binding resolutions against Israel would be much easier to pass. Without American aid, Israel’s military strength would be diminished. Without the backing of American citizens and America-based businesses, perhaps Israel
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) issued the following statement Friday, praising the House vote on Thursday night to to ban backdoor email searches: “Last night the House of Representatives took a big step forward for Americans’ privacy rights by voting to prohibit intelligence agencies from deliberately reading Americans’ emails and
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USABURLINGTON, Vermont (Press Release)– Vermont Christian and Jewish leaders joined U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) on Friday, June 20, to address the moral implications of extreme wealth and income inequality. Bishop Thomas Ely, the Rev. Dr. Lynn Bujnak, Monsignor Roland Rivard and Rabbi Joshua Chasan joined Sanders to emphasize that increasing wealth and income inequality
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) on Friday, June 20, praised the Obama Administration for creating a Pollinator Health Task Force to develop a federal strategy to promote the health of honey bees and other pollinators. The new interagency task force will help address troubling pollinator declines in California,
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) on Friday, June 20, released the following statement on the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank: “I strongly condemn the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers, one of whom is also an American citizen, and support Israel’s ongoing efforts to return these boys
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Middle East, USADETROIT (Press Release)– The American Jewish Committee called Friday’s Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) decision to divest from major companies doing business with Israel a setback for efforts to attain a negotiated, sustainable Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, and a breach with a Jewish community committed to Jewish-Christian relations. By a vote of 310 to 303, the PCUSA General
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — If there is a New Middle East on the horizon, it does not look anything like that which Barack Obama envisioned in his Nobel-winning Cairo speech of 2009. Beyond the lives of three boys and whatever develops between Israel and the Palestinians as a result, the bigger noise in the
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