SACRAMENTO (Press Release)–The California Legislative Jewish Caucus on Monday commended Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. for including in his final budget proposal funds to maintain and restore the landmark Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. The Governor released his May Revise in the State Capitol Monday, updating his January proposal with revenue totals from the […]
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Jewish History, USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Testifying as an expert witness before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB)on Friday urged the federal government to take immediate action to stem increasing religious bullying and harassment in U.S. schools. “Religiously-motivated harassment and bullying are on the rise across our
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Jewish History, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marched in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Immortal Regiment in memory of Russian fighters who died in World War II, Israel was getting ready to retaliate for an Iranian rocket attack on Israeli military units in the strategically sensitive Golan.
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — After recently released footage from the Israel/Gaza border confirms the use of children as human shields by Hamas during so-called ‘March of Return,’ The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish Human Rights NGO, is urging United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to denounce the cynical and dangerous child abuse by Hamas that
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International, Middle East, USABy Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The Jewish Museum in New York City is currently presenting the work of Chaim Soutine (1893-1943), featuring just over thirty paintings by one of the most distinctive and significant artists of the early twentieth century. Focusing on still life paintings, of which he was a master, “Chaim Soutine: Flesh” includes
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — AIPAC applauds the House Foreign Affairs Committee for adopting the U.S.-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2018 (H.R. 5141), which seeks to ensure that Israel has the means to defend itself, by itself, against growing threats—most significantly Iran’s presence on its northern border. This bipartisan legislation authorizes agreed-upon increases in Israel’s
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Middle East, USABy David Gemunder PHILADELPHIA (JNS) — A fundamental red line was crossed. For the first time in our collective memory, radical activists successfully used anti-Semitism to convince one of America’s largest companies to turn its back on an established and respected civil-rights organization. A little history, for perspective. About a century ago, this country suffered
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USABy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — It’s done. U.S. President Donald Trump announced (5/8/18) that the US is withdrawing from the JCPOA (aka Iran deal) and that drastic sanctions on Iran will be reimposed. In the run up to the inauguration of the deal in 2015, then President Barack Obama promised that the
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International, Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –A Florida Jewish congregation again defeated a discriminatory lawsuit attempting to block them from building a house of worship. LateMonday, in Gagliardi v. The City of Boca Raton, Florida, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit protected the Chabad of East Boca Raton’s ability to build a new synagogue
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USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The decertification of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) by Trump is most unfortunate. It seems that Trump was not swayed by either France’s President Macron or Germany’s Chancellor Merkel to preserve the deal. Instead, he appears to have taken Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s advice to decertify the
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW)– President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that the United States was withdrawing from the multinational agreement (JCPOA) with Iran that was intended to curb that nation’s march toward nuclear weapon production. Following are his speech plus a position paper issued by the White House in support of the President’s decision. At the
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International, Middle East, USA
Following are remarks prepared by Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, for the opening of that organization’s Leadership Conference in Washington, which began on Sunday, May 6. By Jonathan Greenblatt WASHINGTON, D.C. — A few weeks ago, I was speaking to a friend of mine – catching him up about all we
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USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –The world is full of surprises. I was stunned to read about a New York Times condemnation of the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas. The name of the Article was, “Let Abbas’s Vile Words Be His Last as Palestinian Leader.”[1] Abbas went on record saying that the
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USABy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — This is the story of a green banana. I like green bananas, not so green that they taste bitter, but not so yellow that they are mushy. When I came into our dining room this morning for breakfast at 6:45 am, which is when a small group
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Natasha Josefowitz, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USA