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Jewish volunteers assist in Louisiana flood clean-up
Ben Sales, JTAAug 25, 2016
BATON ROUGE — At midnight on Aug. 13, the floodwaters began to flow into Ellen Sager’s Baton Rouge home. Her husband grabbed some important family documents, then...
Violence: Whither US?
Chris LeppekJul 14, 2016
black men killed by police officers under questionable circumstances, cops murdered in cold blood by a gunman apparently bent on race-inspired revenge. Just another...
Opioid epidemic takes Jewish lives
Ben Sales, JTAJun 30, 2016
NEW YORK — Eve Goldberg’s son, Isaac, was in a panic. He had to get out of college. Isaac Goldberg Volkmar had been at the University of Rhode Island for […]
Sens. urge posthumous medal for Rabbi Heschel
JTAJun 23, 2016
WASHINGTON — A slate of 20 senators urged President Barack Obama to posthumously award Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the...
Obama threatens veto on missile defense aid
JTAJun 23, 2016
WASHINGTON — Despite President Barack Obama’s veto threat, the US House of Representatives passed a $576 billion defense appropriations bill, including an allocation...
NY Times editor: Goodbye Twitter
JTAJun 16, 2016
NEW YORK — A New York Times editor has left Twitter after receiving a large number of anti-Semitic tweets. Jonathan Weisman, deputy Washington editor of the newspaper,...
Cuomo declares BDS illegal in NY
Ben Sales, JTAJun 09, 2016
New York — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive order opposing BDS shouldn’t have made a splash — but it did. A handful of states had already passed similar...
Democrats: Wasserman Schultz to be ousted?
JTAJun 02, 2016
WASHINGTON — Feeling the heat over her clashes with Bernie Sanders, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is at the center of a debate among Democratic lawmakers over whether to...
Debate in Detroit: Who is BDS?
Ron Kampeas, JTAMay 19, 2016
DETROIT For the second year in a row, the Detroit areas Walk for Israel has rebuffed the sponsorship of left-wing pro-Israel groups because of their support for...
Lamborn co-sponsors US funding for anti-terror tunnel technology
JNSMay 12, 2016
WASHINGTON — The US House Armed Services Committee has approved an amendment to add funding for technology to thwart terror tunnels to a defense bill for Israel. The...
