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Rabbi Jonah Pesner Of Religious Action Center Named To NAACP Board
(JTA) — The NAACP named the director of the Reform movement’s Religion Action Center, Rabbi Jonah Pesner, to its board. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced on Tuesday that it was appointing Pesner, who has led the RAC since 2015 and served as senior vice president of the Union for Reform Judaism since…
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Wiesenthal Center Says Feds Must Expand Effort To Combat Anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A senior Republican congressman and a Jewish defense group called for the funding of federal positions to monitor anti-Semitism a day after reports that the Trump administration was considering nixing the international anti-Semitism monitor role. “Ever since its creation under President George W. Bush, the Special Envoy on anti-Semitism has made clear…
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Lawmakers Move To Create $50M-A-Year Israel-Palestinian ‘Peace Fund’
(JTA) — Two congressmen introduced a measure to establish and provide money for an international fund to promote peace between Israel and Palestinians. Reps. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., and Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y., introduced a bill on Monday urging the United States to establish — in cooperation with the Israeli government, the Palestinian Authority, regional governments and the international…
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Former Envoy Calls Trump’s Plan To Nix Anti-Semitism Post A ‘Disaster’
News that President Trump plans to eliminate the office of the special envoy to counter anti-Semitism as part of his planned budget cuts was met with some serious pushback from Jewish leaders — and from the last person to hold the position. “I can’t believe someone at the White House won’t have better sense… This is…
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Natan Sharansky Agrees To Stay On For Extra Year As Jewish Agency Chief
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Executive for the Jewish Agency for Israel, will head the organization for an extra year. The board of governors announced Tuesday that Sharansky had agreed to its request that he stay a year past his second four-year term ending in June. The announcement came at the closing…
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Record $1.1 B In Israel Bonds Sold To Americans
(JTA) — A record-breaking $1.127 billion in Israel Bonds was sold in the United States in 2016. The Development Corporation for Israel, also known as Israel Bonds – which issues debt securities by the government of Israel, also announced this week that it has sold more than $40 billion in global sales of Israel Bonds…
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The Hague Told To Fork Over $2.75 Million In Holocaust Restitution
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The executive board of the municipality of The Hague advised the city government to offer $2.75 million in restitution for money wrongfully collected from Holocaust survivors. The recommendation, announced Monday, follows the vote last year by the City Council of Amsterdam to allocate $11 million to Jewish causes as compensation for similar…
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Police Evacuate 9 Homes In West Bank Settlement Of Ofra
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — Hundreds of Israeli police officers evacuated three of nine homes slated to be demolished in a West Bank settlement. The homes located in the West Bank settlement of Ofra were ordered demolished by Israel’s Supreme Court after it was determined that they were built on Palestinian-owned land. The evacuation began Tuesday…
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Trump May Eliminate Anti-Semitism Envoy In Budget Cuts
(JTA) — President Donald Trump is reportedly considering cutting a number of special envoy positions, including one dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism, as part of a forthcoming budget proposal. Trump will propose increasing defense spending by $54 billion, and make cuts to federal agencies to accommodate the 10 percent defense increase in the new budget plan, Bloomberg…
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Chabad Rabbi Banned From Lithuania’s Main Synagogue
(JTA) — In an escalation of the internal feud dividing Lithuanian Jews, the Chabad movement’s senior emissary to the country was banned from the capital city’s main synagogue. Rabbi Sholem Ber Krinsky, who has lived in Vilnius for 22 years, was informed in an email Monday from the chairman of the Vilnius Jewish Religious Community…
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Western JCC’s And San Francisco ADL Office Emptied By New Bomb Threats
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Seven additional Jewish community centers, all in western states, and the San Francisco office of the Anti-Defamation League were evacuated after bomb threats, bringing the one day total of threats to 29. Secure Community Network, the security arm of the national Jewish community, reported evacuations in Tucson and Phoenix in Arizona; Orange…
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