WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW) — Israel’s President Shimon Peres, after receiving a Congressional Gold Medal in a ceremony Thursday, June 26, in the Capitol rotunda, thanked both President Obama and the Congress for standing by Israel throughout its history and for making the Jewish nation “strong enough to take risks for peace.” Peres said that at
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee) paid tribute to the life of former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, who sadly passed away on Thursday, June 26.. Congressman Cohen made the following statement on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives: “I have unfortunate news that we have lost a great
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Rep. Susan Davis (D-San Diego) has cosponsored the bipartisan Voting Rights Amendment Act (H.R. 3899) to reinstate and strengthen voting protections that were recently struck down by the Supreme Court last year. These provisions were designed to protect voters in states with a history of racial discrimination by requiring
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USABy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Take a female newspaper reporter in Manhattan named Rebekah Roberts covering a murder in the Hasidic community — where a recent murder has everyone talking — and you’ve got a very good and probing debut novel by CBSNews.com reporter Julia Dahl. Released in May,, Invisible City is a
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Travel and FoodBRUSSELS (Press Release) — Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras pledged a fight against extremism at an AJC Transatlantic Institute dinner Wednesday night, June 25. While acknowledging the immense challenges facing his country since 2008, including nearly 60 percent youth unemployment, he presented a generally optimistic outlook for Greece. He said that “extremism of all kinds
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International, Travel and FoodBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA)- Economy Minister Naftali Bennett announced Wednesday, June 25, that he will work to stop Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas from continuing the policy of paying monthly salaries to convicted terrorists jailed in Israeli prisons. “Did you murder Jews? Have you abducted children? Get up to 12,000 shekels a month from
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The President of the State of Israel, Shimon Peres, met on Wednesday, June 25, with President Obama at the White House. President Obama asked President Peres to join him at a meeting with the leadership of the Jewish community in the US; hosted a working lunch with Vice President Biden,
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NEW YORK (WJC) — World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder on Thursday, June 26, welcomed a decision by a court in Versailles, France to allow the extradition to Belgium of Mehdi Nemmouche, the man suspected of having perpetrated the murder of four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels a month
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InternationalMassive Times Square billboard calls for return of missing Israeli teens (JNS.org) A massive new billboard in Times Square calling for the return of the three missing Israeli teens has been launched by a local New York synagogue. The 40-foot-by-40-foot digital ad was purchased by the Young Israel of the West Side congregation for an
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International, Middle East, USAEditor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. The U-T’s People column on Page A-2 took up the comments Gary Oldman made about Jews in Hollywood (for which he later apologized). About Mel Gibson, Oldman said that the actor “is in a town run by Jews
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The deleterious effects of racial profiling were discussed at a Capitol news conference by victims and representatives of the Progressive, Black, Hispanic, Asian-Pacific Caucuses in Congress. Among those addressing the conference was Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Maryland) who is a co-chair of the Progressive Caucus with Congressman John Conyers of Michigan.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein (both D-California) on Wednesday, June 25, praised the passage of their resolution honoring the 150th anniversary of the Yosemite Grant Act, legislation signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864 that permanently protected the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove. “In 1864, in the middle of the
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Travel and Food
LOS ANGELES (SDJW) — Singer Merry Clayton, who was featured in the documentary 20 Feet From Stardom “has a long road to recovery” from a June 16 automobile accident in Los Angeles, according to manager and record producer Alan V. Abrahams. In a note sent Wednesday, June 25, to San Diego Jewish World, he verified
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Travel and FoodBy Dr. Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — The recent kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers near Hebron, who are now the subject of a massive Israeli military-security search, should give pause. Israel says it has evidence of involvement by Hamas, the U.S. and European Union-listed terrorist group that calls in its Charter for the worldwide murder
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