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Breaking News Heeding Religious Groups, Obama Administration Tweaks Contraception Mandate
The Obama administration simplified its definition of religious groups that would be exempt from allowing staffers contraceptive coverage. The proposed rule change, posted for comment Friday through April 8, also proposed a mechanism to provide contraceptive coverage for self-insured groups. The move aims to address two of the reasons religious groups had objected to in…
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Breaking News Under Kerry, US May Move Cautiously Towards Mideast Peace-Making
The United States has hinted it might try Middle East peace-making once again, but Secretary of State-designate John Kerry is likely to move cautiously, in contrast to U.S. President Barack Obama’s failed, high-profile first-term initiative. While the possibility of another failure may hang over the White House, Kerry suggested this week that time was running…
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Opinion 4 Jewish Things at the Chuck Hagel Hearing
Chuck Hagel will step into the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday morning to face what is expected to be the toughest grilling any Obama nomination has yet to encounter. It will be long, grueling, and could easily draw some sweat from the Vietnam veteran sitting across the room from his former Senate colleagues. But at…
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Breaking News Jewish Groups Back Obama on Immigration Reform
Jewish organizations praised President Obama’s immigration reform proposals, as well as similar measures offered by a bipartisan group of U.S. senators. In addressing the problem of the 11 million undocumented people in the United States, Obama at a speech Tuesday in Las Vegas stressed the need to enforce current laws and create a path to…
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Breaking News As Chuck Hagel Confirmation Hearing Looms, New Push for Pentagon Pick
As Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the Pentagon, prepared to meet with senior New York Senator Chuck Schumer in mid-January, the White House stepped in and ensured that the get-together would take place quickly – and in the West Wing. Some of the loudest objections to Obama’s choice of Hagel for secretary…
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Breaking News Barack Obama: Fight Against Hate on Holocaust Remembrance Day
President Obama in a statement marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day said the spirit of Holocaust resistance must inspire policy today. “While this is a time for mourning and reflection, it is also the time for action,” Obama said in the statement released Sunday. “On this day, we recall the courage, spirit and determination of those…
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Breaking News Rabbis Changed Prayers To Make Barack Obama’s Inaugural Service ‘Jew-ier’
Preaching to a preacher man – or woman – doesn’t always play out as planned. That’s the lesson learned this week by officials at the National Cathedral after several clergy, including three rabbis, made impromptu changes to the readings they were given to deliver at a prayer service following the Jan. 22 inauguration of President…
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Breaking News Diane Feinstein’s Plan for Assault Weapon Ban Will Get a Vote in Senate
The senator leading the charge to revive a U.S. assault weapons ban conceded on Sunday, just days before hearings on gun control open, that winning Senate passage will be tough but said she has been assured she will have the chance to bring it up for a vote. President Barack Obama, who has made gun…
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