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Sean Savage

The legislation, which is 2,741 pages long, includes millions to protect synagogues, Iron Dome and Holocaust survivors, and is the culmination of months of negotiations.
Plans in the works are not only to restart funding for UNRWA; the new administration is pushing more fiscal aid and a return to the negotiating table as Palestinians head for elections in May.
It is urging California Gov. Gavin Newsom to direct the state board of education to refrain from implementing the curriculum until the problematic portions are removed.
The Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco said the final draft of the curriculum “appears to address the major concerns set out nearly two years ago by JCRC and our partners in the Jewish Public Affairs Coalition of California.”
Reflecting on the organization’s 15th anniversary, Pastor John Hagee says that “the most significant achievement was bringing together millions of people from many backgrounds and denominations across America in support of one single cause—Israel and the Jewish people.”
The coronavirus has forced Hillel to rethink its programming and services to adapt to the new reality of remote learning and provide for the well-being, both physically and mentally, of the students it serves. It hopes to carry these lessons forward when life returns to normal.
“The decision has no basis in law or precedent; rather, the ICC has become just another anti-Israel international organization,” Professor Eugene Kontorovich, director of International Law at the Jerusalem-based Kohelet Policy Forum, told JNS.
While he welcomed the decision by Students for Justice in Palestine to end its months-long harassment campaign, Max Price says it does not “absolve” the anti-Israel group of its behavior.
Lawyers for Max Price charge that school senate members have made statements utilizing anti-Semitic tropes about money and power, and demonstrating personal bias against him.