United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres “all but publicly declared Hamas had not used sexual violence” against Israeli women and girls. Alt Miller pointed out that in Guterres’ annual report titled “Conflict-Related Sexual Violence” he paradoxically failed to list Hamas among the organizations that had employed sexual violence in the past year. [Amy Neustein, PhD]
Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – The Republican-led US House of Representatives voted Thursday to force President Joe Biden to end his hold on high-payload bombs approved for Israel but blocked over concerns about their use in Gaza. The largely symbolic move — it has no chance of becoming law — is a response to
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Fifty of California’s 120 legislators joined the conference on Tuesday, May 14, to express their solidarity with the state’s Jewish community, and almost the entirety of the 19-member Legislative Jewish Caucus spoke about their close working relationship with JPAC. In addition to Governor Newsom’s remarks, Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, Senate President pro Tempore Emeritus Toni Atkins (by video), Attorney General Rob Bonta, and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond addressed participants. [Press Release]
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The following organizations are working to support Jewish students and combat the rising anti-semitism and intolerance on college campuses. [Press Release]
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Published by ANI News Tel Aviv [Israel], May 16 (ANI/TPS): Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced on Wednesday that the Israeli premier will advance contentious legislation for conscripting members of the Orthodox Jewish community into army service. “In order to bridge the disagreements and bring about a broad consensus, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
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Local Republican Congressman Darrell Issa is concerned that anti-Israel sentiment may influence decision-making at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. And, at UC San Diego and other University of California campuses, unionized graduate student workers, have voted to authorize a strike in reaction to campus officials calling in law enforcement to clear out war protesters’ encampments. [SDJW staff]
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In a significant escalation, more than 30 anti-Israel protesters — from the groups behind the encampment still up at the Ann Arbor campus — early yesterday morning went to the homes of members of the University of Michigan Board of Regents. According to a statement put out by the University, “activities included placing tents and fake corpses wrapped in bloodied sheets on the lawn, marching and chanting, and posting demands on doors.” [Press Release]
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Courtesy of Wikipedia Debra Winger (May 16, 1955) is an American actress. She starred in the films An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Terms of Endearment (1983), and Shadowlands (1993), each of which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Winger won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for Terms of Endearment, and the Tokyo International Film Festival
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With the exhibit having its closing ceremony (it will remain open until June) I thought of Rose Schindler’s words and wondered, now what? Who is going to continue to tell the story? Our survivors are sadly aging and passing so it relies on us to tell the stories and to not forget. [Cailin Acosta]
President Biden withheld delivery of 3,500 bombs to Israel in part because critics of the Jewish state may abandon him next Nov. 5, denying Democrats another four-year term in the White House. However, a revealing New York Times piece on Sunday suggests that Biden’s prevailing reason was aggravation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. [Bruce S. Ticker]
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They urged the Administration to continue to issue and enforce sanctions against those complicit in extremist settler violence. [Press Release]
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This memoir and autobiography is filled with secrets, doubts, anticipation, anxiety, temporary disappointments, regrets, the thrill of the chase and the exaltation of success. He repeatedly states the discoveries changed his life, and it also enriched the lives of the brothers and sisters he discovered. [Oliver Pollak]
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Jewish Poets of the Past program on Tuesday evening, May 7 in the Astor Judaica Library featured the works of Israeli poet Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936-2005) and Yiddish poet, Abraham Sutzkever (1913-2010). [Eileen Wingard]
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AMCHA Initiative Director Tammi Rossman-Benjamin issued the following statement Wednesday blasting Sonoma State University’s capitulation to the encampment demands of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), including committing the state school to a full academic boycott of Israel … (Press Release0
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