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“People have every right to protest, but what’s happening here goes beyond that,” Regina Sassoon Friedland, of the American Jewish Committee, told JNS. “The Jewish people will not be intimidated to halt our events and activities.”
Jim Pillen will “hold ‘high-level’ diplomatic meetings and discuss Israel’s reliance on U.S. defense technologies,” per the governor’s office.
Dan Schnur, a political science professor, told JNS that Scott Wiener would be the favorite to win if Rep. Nancy Pelosi doesn’t seek reelection.
“If I pick up my phone and send out a tweet, if I say ‘good morning,’ within minutes I will have hundreds of blatantly antisemitic responses,” the Texas Republican said at an event hosted by Hagee Ministries.
Bill Donohue, president of the group, signed onto a rabbinic letter decrying the New York City mayoral race frontrunner’s anti-Israel statements.
“This is exactly what the Jewish community needs right now,” Lisa Brenner told JNS of her new film “One Big Happy Family.” “We need something to make us feel good about ourselves.”
The carrier will offer daily non-stop service from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Speaking at the Civil-Military Coordination Center in Israel, the secretary of state voices “healthy optimism” the Trump deal will be fully implemented.
Welcoming David Zini to his new position as agency director, Netanyahu counters claims that the US dictates Israel’s security policy.
The Israeli foreign minister hailed his country’s warm relations with Albania, noting a 1,000% rise of Israeli tourism in the Balkan state.
The senator told JNS that the rabbi was “very substantive, but the depth of his personal friendship and his commitment to people was remarkable.”
“Identifying Iran’s complex financial lifelines and shadow networks is an essential part of cutting off the funding for their military, weapons programs and terrorist proxies,” per the U.S. Treasury Department.
“They said that what he did is not even a crime,” the U.S. president said. “That he was persecuted by the Biden administration, and so I gave him a pardon.”
