QUEENS, New York (Press Release)— Congressman Steve Israel (D-New York) hailed the safe return of four-year old Mykhailo Kuzmin to his mother and step father in New York. Rep. Israel had called on the State Department to expedite the processing of an approved immigration petition for Mykhailo to come to the United States and live […]
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International, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Thursday, May 29, released an April 2013 email exchange between then-NSA contractor Edward Snowden and the National Security Agency’s Office of General Counsel. {Click here to read the exchange} The email, provided to the committee by the NSA on April 10, 2014, poses a
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-California) joined her colleague Rep. Mark Takano (D-California) and advocacy group Young Invincibles in calling on the Department of Education to strengthen accountability standards of for-profit schools and put stronger protections in place for-profit college students. “I have heard far too many stories about for-profit schools luring
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee) has offered an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2015 Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations bill to provide additional resources to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of the Pardon Attorney to help President Obama’s Administration more fully realize the goals of its newly-expanded criteria for
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SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Assessor/Recorder/County Clerk, Ernie Dronenburg will present the children of the A.B. and Jessie Polinsky Children’s Center with a donation of $15,000 on Friday, May 30, thanks to couples who purchase framed photographs of their civil weddings. The photos, taken by Dronenberg’s staff, ” have been captured during one of the happiest
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San Diego CountyBy Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — Dear Money Maven: Senator Barbara Boxer released information on the tax rules related to a short sale, but I don’t understand what it says! Can you take a look and explain it to me? A: I will certainly try! Here’s the story: In August 2013, Senator Boxer asked the
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SAN DIEGO (SDJW)– Brad Ausmus was a catcher for the San Diego Padres from 1993 to 1996, and after a full career on other teams served from 2010 to 2013 as a Padres special assistant for baeball operations. He is now managing the Detroit Tigers with slugger Ian Kinsler one of his star teammates.
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TEL AVIV (Press Release) — About one in eight women in the United States will contract breast cancer in her lifetime. Now new research from Tel Aviv University-affiliated researchers, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, has provided another tool to help women, clinicians, and scientists searching for a cure to the one of the most
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) — Japan’s largest pharmaceutical company, Takeda, recently signed an agreement with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries to commercialize the Israeli company’s innovative treatment for Parkinson’s disease, rasagiline, in Japan. The rasagiline tablets, which are approved in over 40 countries for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, gained UK and EU-marketing authorization in 2005
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By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — The Israeli Air Force chief stated last week that the IDF’s offensive capabilities will quadruple by the end of 2014. In a single day, Israeli planes will be able to strike thousands of terror targets and expand the IDF’s achievements during extended operations. Major General Amir Eshel, Commander of the Israel
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, resulting in four deaths including those of a visiting Israeli couple, has elevated once again the issue of anti-Semitism. It comes against the background of recent studies of the subject, including one based on questions about attitudes toward Jews in various countries,
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California –Beverly Robertson, the indomitable President and CEO of the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, is “a caged bird…that sings of freedom.” She is one of the millions of Maya Angelou’s living protégés, a proud African American woman who overcame the systemic social toxins of
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USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-The exquisite black and white cinematography of Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida mesmerizes audiences. Each meticulously composed and highly textured frame enhances the film’s acting, dialogue, and moments of silence. They capture the bleakness of communist Poland in the 1960s and the psychological turmoil gnawing at the souls of the novitiate nun Anna
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Jewish History, Lawrence BaronMuslim Brotherhood opponent El-Sisi wins Egyptian presidential election (JNS.org) Former defense minister and military commander Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, hailed as a hero in Egypt for his role in the July 2013 ouster of Islamist president and Muslim Brotherhood member Mohamed Morsi, easily won the country’s presidential election with more than 93 percent of the vote,
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