Power: U.N. attacks on Israel are ‘biased, ugly’

WASHINGTON, D.C. (JNS.org) United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, speaking to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference on Monday morning, March 2, touted U.S. efforts to support Israel at the U.N. and said the U.S.-Israel relationship “transcends politics.” Power called it “bitterly unjust that the United Nations, an institution founded […]

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Middle East, USA

Netanyahu: Speech won’t derail U.S.- Israel friendship

Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org WASHINGTON, DC—A day before his much-debated speech about Iran to a joint session of Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, March 2, attempted to assure the 16,000 people attending the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference—an annual showcase for the U.S-Israel relationship—that current tension will not derail the countries’ friendship.

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Jacob Kamaras, Middle East, USA

Industry leader says Jews should speak up about Iran

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—When Joseph Kanfer, the father of Purell hand sanitizers, focuses this week on Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speeches to AIPAC and to Congress, he will do so “because I think it is necessary for our very survival but my love is Jewish education.” Kanfer, whose GOJO manufacturing company is

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

AJC: Boteach owes Rice an apology

NEW YORK (Press Release) – American Jewish Committee (AJC) Executive Director David Harris on Sunday, March 1, issued the following statement regarding a full-page ad in the Feb. 28 edition of the New York Times, sponsored by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, assailing U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice: “As AJC said in a tweet yesterday, this ad was ‘way

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Middle East, USA

Black & blue; gold & white, and HaShem’s hidden hand

By Rabbi Rafi Andrusier LA MESA, California — Did you hear? What color is the dress? Black and blue or white and gold? I am still enamored by the stark difference.  (Here’s a link to the phenomenon:https://www.yahoo.com/tech/explained-why-people-cant-agree-on-the-color-of-112191281639.html# ) How is possible? When I saw it recently, I said it’s black and blue. But some of my family

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