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“Both sides of my family have a long legacy with Hadassah,” Elizabeth Cullen told JNS.
The bipartisan legislation would require a yearly check by the State Department on bigotry in education materials.
A hefty section on “Israel, West Bank and Gaza” devotes considerably more space to right-wing Orthodox positions on egalitarian worship at the Western Wall than it does to antisemitic attacks on Israelis.
The Michigan congresswoman found an ideological ally for sponsorship of a way to spew anti-Israel sentiment.
Susan Rice, Liz Sherwood-Randall and Douglas Emhoff are working to “counter antisemitism, Islamophobia and related forms of discrimination and bias.”
Nine groups known for opposing the Jewish state planned to gather to commemorate the “catastrophe” of Israel’s rebirth in 1948.
A nuclear Iran could blackmail every U.S. city, changing history, according to the Israeli prime minister.
Rep. Michelle Steel and Sen. Tim Scott are leading efforts to counter the Islamic regime’s nuclear ambitions.
In a video announcing his retirement, the Jewish Democratic senator from Maryland referred to “tikkun olam” and “tzedakah.”
“We feel that here’s a woman in Golda Meir, who stood for so many things,” said initiative funder Bobby Rechnitz. “She was very progressive and very liberal, and yet she helped found the country and fulfill the Zionist dream.”
“We need to treat any form of hate directed towards a community as, if there’s an attack on one, there’s an attack on all,” Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz told JNS.
“Rather than punishing Israel for doing the right thing, we should be learning from them,” said Michael Rubin of American Enterprise Institute.
