NEW YORK (Press Release)–Robert G. Sugarman, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations denounced the appointment of Hamid Aboutalebi as Iran’s new Ambassador to the United Nations. He is widely known to have been involved in the siege of the American embassy in Tehran in 1979 […]
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Middle East, USA
By Morton A. Klein NEW YORK, — Last week, potential presidential candidate, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, spoke to hundreds of Jews at the Republican Jewish Coalition meeting in Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Palazzo hotel. Christie didn’t mention Israel in his prepared remarks but during the Q &A, he inaccurately referred to Judea and Samaria as
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Middle East, USA
NEW YORK (WJC)– The World Jewish Congress-US has applauded a bipartisan effort in the US Congress to create a fund to aid the estimated 30,000 impoverished Holocaust survivors living in the United States. The initiative, a letter authorized by Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and signed by more than 50 House
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USARABAT, Morocco (SDJW) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, on a visit to Morocco, said on Friday, April 4, that he and President Barack Obama will evaluate whether the United States should continue its role as a mediator in the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, in light of recent actions taken by both
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — The National Civil Rights Museum, built on the site of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, and visited by 200,000 people every year, is re-opening this weekend. A remarkable renovation, joining history to our moral future, has been completed in conjunction with the 46th anniversary of the MLK assassination
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USABy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — A few years ago our congregation participated in a “Torah for the Troops” campaign that was spearheaded locally by Gary Jacobs. After making a lead gift, Gary encouraged San Diego Synagogues, the Jewish Federation, and the Jewish Community Foundation to contribute funds to commission the writing of a
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USA
JERUSALEM (TNA) — Mayor Nir Barkat is currently conducting an official visit to the United States, his office here has reported. During his visit in Washington he met on Tuesday with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and Republican members of Congress Peter Roskam of Illinois, Susan Brooks of Indiana and Edward Royce of California. Royce chairs the
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Middle East, USA
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) –Aboard the retired Air Craft Carrier USS Midway, a new Torah was presented Tuesday evening, April 1, by the Jewish community of San Diego to the JWB, previously called the Jewish Welfare Board, for use by Jewish chaplains. Carried under a chuppah by San Diego philanthropist Gary Jacobs, the Torah a few hours before had its
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Jewish Religion, USANEW YORK (Press Release)-The total number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States fell by 19 percent in 2013, continuing a decade-long downward slide and marking one of the lowest levels of incidents reported by the Anti-Defamation League since it started keeping records in 1979. ADL’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, released today, reported a
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Jewish Religion, USA
WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – Congressman Brad Sherman (D-California), along with Congressman Eliot Engel (D-New York), Congressman Michael Grimm (R-New York), and Congressman Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), led a bipartisan group of 84 House members in a request to the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development for $2 million for the U.S.–Israel Energy Cooperation Program in the
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)–The early release of Jonathan Pollard should be based on humanitarian grounds and on the strong bilateral relationship between the United States and Israel, and not intertwined with any potential resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said today. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement: “Jonathan
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Middle East, USA
CHICAGO (Press Release)–North America’s Reform rabbis took on the sometimes-ignored human costs of two of today’s pressing social issues: immigration policy and healthcare inequality. The rabbis addressed the topics in two sessions — “Undocumented and Unafraid: Standing Strong as an Immigration Ally,” and “The Death Gap: Inequality in America and the Unfinished Business of Health
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Jewish Religion, USA
By Maayan Jaffe/JNS.org OLATHE, Kansas — Two power strips with 10 outlets. Bunk beds, stress balls, and enough kinetic sand to fill the Tel Aviv beach. One mother. Meet Rose Marchick, biological mother of three, adoptive mother of two, and foster mother to more than 150 children over the last nine years here. “The
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The World We Share, USA
UC Santa Cruz Professor and cofounder of AMCHA Initiative, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, spoke about the alarming rise in campus anti-Semitism at T.E.A.M.’s 5th Anniversary Celebration on Sunday, March 30, at Congregation Beth Am in San Diego. Nicole Bernstein from StandWithUs and Jean-Jacques (“J.J.”) Surbeck, T.E.A.M. cofounder, also spoke at the event about what it takes to
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA