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Jewish lawmakers ponder Iran deal
Ron Kampeas, JTAJul 30, 2015
WASHINGTON Turn off the ads, turn down the noise and read, listen and consult. Thats what five key Jewish lawmakers say they are planning for the five to seven...
Newly unsealed documents in Rosenberg case
JTAJul 23, 2015
NEW YORK Newly unsealed court records may provide fodder for those who believe Ethel Rosenberg was wrongly convicted and executed. Rosenberg and her husband, Julius,...
Obama’s cousin is ‘Black chief rabbi’
JTAJul 16, 2015
CHICAGO Rabbi Capers Funnye of Chicago was nominated to become what an international organization is calling the first black chief rabbi of the 21st century. A...
Clinton gets millions from Jewish supporters
JTAJul 09, 2015
NEW YORK Jewish billionaires George Soros and Haim Saban reportedly have donated a total of $3 million to the presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Saban,...
ADL raps Oren for dissing Obama
JTAJun 25, 2015
NEW YORK — The Anti-Defamation League criticized Michael Oren, Israels former ambassador to the US, for an insensitive and unjustified attack on President...
Abe Foxman leaves ADL after nearly 30 years
Uriel Heilman, JTAJun 18, 2015
NEW YORK If theres one thing that can be said of longtime ADL leader Abraham Foxman, who is stepping down this month after nearly 30 years at the helm, […]
Jewish groups demand apology from NPR
JTAJun 18, 2015
WASHINGTON Jewish groups demanded an apology from NPR host Diane Rehm for saying that Sen. Bernie Sanders has dual Israeli-American citizenship. Such a statement is...
New York honors Muslim hero
JTAJun 18, 2015
NEW YORK The Muslim employee who saved Jewish shoppers during a terrorist attack on a Paris kosher supermarket was honored in New York. Lassana Bathily was presented...
No ‘Israel’ on US passports
Ron Kampeas, JTAJun 11, 2015
WASHINGTON Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority in the Supreme Court decision that will keep Israel off the passports of Jerusalem-born Americans,...
BDS veers into anti-Semitism
JTAMay 28, 2015
By Dan Pine, j. SAN FRANCISCO — Liana Kadisha, a senior at Stanford University, says some Jewish students on her campus feel they have to hide who they are. The...
