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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–  U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Tuesday, June 17, introduced the Lori Jackson Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act, a bill that would protect domestic violence survivors from gun violence by preventing an individual subject to a temporary restraining order from purchasing or possessing a firearm for the duration of the order. […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW) – If the White House was floating a trial balloon when officials told reporters that the President may soon sign an executive order banning government contractors from discriminating against members of the LGBT community, there were plenty of Democratic Senators and Representatives who did their best to keep that balloon aloft. A

By Dmitriy Shapiro/JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week WASHINGTON, D.C. — While Hillary Rodham Clinton jets around the country promoting her newly released memoir Hard Choices, a group of prominent Jewish Democrats has placed bets on the former secretary of state in advance of her possible run for the presidency. Others, however, are using parts of the memoir

 By Rabbi Ben Kamin MEMPHIS, Tennessee —When I returned again this week to this city of purple mists, hovering ghosts, and sudden ferocious rainstorms, the hole in my heart for my departed, adopted mother was real and dampening.   Maxine Smith quietly died since my last visit (the only thing she ever did quietly); a ribald,

WASHINGTON,D.C. (Press Release0 – In a letter Friday, June 13,  to the National Retail Federation, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy  and Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty, all Connecticut Democrats, called on retailers to join the national, bipartisan push for commonsense gun violence reform measures and to consider voluntary measures individual retailers could take to immediately reduce