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“Within a decade, more than half of U.S. states will have adopted a universal education choice policy,” predicts Jason Bedrick of the Heritage Foundation.
“Some communities don’t even know the program exists,” the New Jersey Democrat said.
“There was inappropriate use of the term without my consent,” said Rep. Jamaal Bowman.
Mahmoud Musa, Mohammed Othman and Mohammed Said Othman will be sentenced later this month for their assault on Joseph Borgen in May 2021.
It called the late Jewish former Supreme Court associate justice an “icon of American culture.”
Congress also voted overwhelmingly to keep the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem and maintain the terror designation of the IRGC.
White House orders flags at half-mast to honor longtime California legislator • U.S. President Joe Biden calls her “a historic figure.”
Abraham Foxman, director emeritus of the Anti-Defamation League, called the event a “sad day for the Jewish community.”
A former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state told JNS that he wouldn’t be surprised if the indictment “is strategically timed.”
There were no fiery exchanges on Israel, as there were in the first debate, though two candidates mentioned Iran.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield took aim at Palestinian Authority leader, calling his recent comments “blatantly antisemitic,” which “wrongly maligned the Jewish people and distorted the Holocaust.”
Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), who leads the House Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations, said the issue is “raises alarming questions.”
