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“I believe [U.S.] President [Donald] Trump is concerned with Iranian aggression across the Middle East including in Syria,” Dore Gold, former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, told JNS.
The comparison was “unconscionable and uncalled for,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
“Upon taking office and being a member of Congress, I anticipate being an outspoken proponent of positive relations between the U.S. and Israel.”
“UNESCO is manipulated by Israel’s enemies and continually singles out the Jewish state for condemnation,” said Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon.
While she has consistently criticized Wall Street and held on to standard left-wing positions, her record on Israel has been, at best, mixed.
Israeli author and intellectual Amos Oz died from cancer on Dec. 28, 2018, at the age of 79. Credit: Blaues Sofa/Flickr.
Reactions pour in following the passing of Amos Oz, 79, who leaves a literary ‘void’
“Mourning the loss of one of Israel’s prominent literary voices,” tweeted Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon. “A loss for us all and for the world. May his memory be blessed.”
From triumph to tragedy, 2018 was a busy year for U.S. Jewry. Take a look at what JNS is naming the top five stories of the year.
The American Jewish Committee and United Hatzalah have been training emergency personnel in India and Sri Lanka on how to respond to situations such as terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
The Center for Combating Hate in America (C4CHA) will serve as an active watchdog group, as well as a resource to fight hatred and violence nationwide.
“There’s no room in American politics for anti-Semitic remarks.”
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and other officials have warned against releasing the plan during the Israeli election season, so that the vote is not a referendum on the American proposal.
Even though Jewish inmates comprise a very small portion of the American prison population, some groups and activists have been working for years on such reform.