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Dmitriy Shapiro

Dmitriy Shapiro

Dmitriy Shapiro is the Washington, D.C., correspondent for JNS.

It’s invite-only for 700 of the organization’s leaders and donors, combining the January leadership conference and summertime summit with the opening plenary session to be livestreamed.
“Anti-Semitism is out of control. It’s become normalized. It’s everywhere,” said Olivia Dolgin of Virginia. “It’s in Congress, it’s in the universities, it’s in the school systems. The media is posting lies, distortions and insulting everybody. They have weaponized anti-Semitism.”
They say positions of the Muslim American political action organization Emgage, where Dilawar Syed served on the board, are anti-Israel.
Also in attendance was a delegation of U.S. lawmakers led by House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), making his first trip to Israel in his current position.
“The committee’s appropriation, with no added political conditions, reflects the strong bipartisan commitment to Israel’s security in Congress and the Biden administration,” tweeted AIPAC.
The late former defense secretary’s Bush administration colleagues recall his sense of humor, mixed dynamics with Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, and influence on U.S. policy towards Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
In 2019, the Trump administration reversed the 1978 State Department legal opinion that Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria were inconsistent with international law.
“I think that it’s sad that in 2021, Poland, instead of moving forward to try to address its history, is moving backwards to try to extinguish what limited rights people have,” said Gideon Taylor, chair of operations for the World Jewish Restitution Organization.
Lisa Spies and her husband, attorney Charlie Spies, donated religious items to a new Chabad center in Northern Virginia in memory of neurosurgeon Dr. Shelley Wernick.
Amid a spike in anti-Semitism across the country, the president has yet to fill the positions of special envoy on anti-Semitism and the White House Jewish liaison.
The campaign came as a result of nationwide attacks on Jews and increasing concerns for the security of day schools and other institutions.
They expressed optimism and faith, though also some concern over the range of coalition diversity, that the sole democracy in the Mideast will continue to make strides domestically and abroad.