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“It’s a great honor for us to fight with you,” the Israeli pilot says.
“We really wanted to get a broad-brush stroke of meeting with people who we already know are our friends” and those who are not friends yet, Carol Ann Schwartz, Hadassah national president, told JNS.
A spokeswoman for Gov. Gavin Newsom said that California is “actively working with state, local and federal security officials to protect our communities.”
A spokesman for the department told JNS that the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation drafted the statement, which referred to “Palestine.”
A scholarly showdown over Jewish holiday foods spreads to more campuses across the United States.
Many of the posts, which included death threats, also used antisemitic language, referring to the state judiciary as the “JEW-dicial” branch, authorities said.
The added cost “puts an enormous strain on school budgets,” Prizmah CEO Paul Bernstein told JNS.
“Even though he recently released a well-publicized ‘apology,’ the real question is whether he has demonstrated any sustained, meaningful change,” Ari Ingel, of Creative Community for Peace, told JNS.
Civil-liberties groups argue that the request violates First Amendment rights, while the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says it is a standard investigative procedure.
Though the Jewish state and the Netherlands were already out of contention, the “sense of urgency” in the dugout to win impressed Israel’s manager.
Josh Weiner at the North American Values Institute said “the company they are keeping says about their priorities, which clearly has little to do with the American students and teachers in Chicago classrooms.”