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News Want To Give to Jewish Charities? Don’t Do It Over the Phone.
Your favorite Jewish charity calls you on the phone. You haven’t renewed your membership, you’re told. What’s your credit card number, again? You might want to think twice before giving it. Jewish charities handed over a huge portion of the money they raised in telemarketing campaigns in New York in 2013 to for-profit telemarketing contractors,…
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News Susan Rice Calls Benjamin Netanyahu Speech ‘Destructive’ — ADL Dials Back Criticism
National Security Adviser Susan Rice slammed Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech as “destructive” and more Democrats lined up against the speech even as the Anti-Defamation League dialed down its criticism. The speech is “destructive of the fabric of the relationship,” National Security Adviser Susan Rice told Charlie Rose, a TV journalist, on Tuesday. “What has happened…
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Breaking News 69% of Americans Say Benjamin Netanyahu Speech Wrong — Want ‘Neutrality’ in Conflict
A CNN poll found that 63 percent of Americans believe it was wrong of congressional Republican leaders to invite Benjamin Netanyahu to speak without first notifying the president. The phone poll of 1,027 adults, conducted by ORC International, had a margin of error of 3 percentage points. Netanyahu is scheduled to speak March 3 to…
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Breaking News White House Hit for ‘Random’ Claim on Paris Kosher Market Terror
The Anti-Defamation League expressed concern after two top Obama administration spokesmen parsed whether last month’s deadly attack in Paris was anti-Semitic. Josh Earnest, the White House spokesman, and Jen Psaki, his State Department counterpart, later clarified on social media that they believed the deadly Jan. 9 attack by Islamist terrorists on a kosher supermarket was…
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The Schmooze Urban Outfitters Sells Holocaust-Inspired Item — Again
The Anti-Defamation League has urged Urban Outfitters to stop selling a tapestry with a design resembling the uniform that gay male prisoners were forced to wear in Nazi concentration camps. The ADL complained about the “insensitive” design of the tapestry, which features pink triangles over a gray and white pattern, in a letter to Urban…
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Breaking News Slain Journalist Steven Sotloff Gets Danny Pearl Award
Slain conflict journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff were posthumously honored with an award in memory of murdered Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl. The ADL Daniel Pearl Award was presented to the parents of Foley and Sotloff Friday during the organization’s 2015 National Executive Committee Meeting in Palm Beach, Florida. Pearl was a Wall Street Journal…
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Opinion After Abdullah: What’s Next for Saudi Arabia?
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who died January 23 at age 90, leaves behind a legacy of monumental proportions for his kingdom, the region and the global economy. For that reason, his death leaves a cloud of uncertainty over all three realms. He leaves the country in the hands of an elderly successor, his half-brother…
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Breaking News Republican ‘Bibi Surprise’ Speaking Invitation Blasted as Political Stunt by ADL
(JTA) — The invitation from Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio,) the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress appears to have been very personal, indeed – virtually no one outside the Boehner-Netanayhu circle had any idea it was coming until just before the announcement. The Anti-Defamation League’s…
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